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7 people that will help you scale from 10 to 200 employees
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9 Habits of World Class Startups
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src-d/guide
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The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2017
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Your Blog Is Not a Publication
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The Sales Handbook
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How to build a growth team – lessons from Uber, Hubspot, and others (50 slides)
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How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit
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The Secret to Making Board Meetings Suck Less
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How To Fix The 2 Of The Biggest Issues Plaguing Startup Sales Right Now.
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How founders can write a quality blog post in 1 hour
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Coaching CEOs to Craft the Story, Rather than Doing It for Them
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Subtle Mid-Stage Startup Pitfalls
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Octoboard
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Why Elon Musk’s “People as Vectors” Analogy Resonates
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How to create your own startup identity?
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David Cummings on Twitter
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The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics – 80 slide deck included!
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When Sales Isn’t Just Selling: Advice for Founders in Early Markets
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Trello’s Product Lead on the Unique Ramp to a 10-Person Product Org
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Product Management Mental Models for Everyone
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Ready to Embrace Transparency? Keep These 3 Things in Mind
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The 5 Whys Process We Use to Understand the Root of Any Problem
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Growth at All Costs is Perilous — This is How to Scale Sales Sustainably
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Use This Equation to Determine, Diagnose, and Repair Trust
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Pinterest and Grubhub’s Former Growth Lead on Building Content Loops
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Spotify Squad framework — Part I
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How Gusto Built Scalable Hiring Practices Rooted in Tradition
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This 90-Day Plan Turns Engineers into Remarkable Managers
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Required reading for marketplace startups: The 20 best essays
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Why It's So Expensive to Build Urban Rail in the U.S.
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Paul Graham on Twitter
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Steve Jobs in 2010, at D8 Conference (Full Video)
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Making Compassionate Decisions: The Role of Empathy in Decision Making
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Wait But Why’s Tim Urban on Parsing and Transmitting Complex Ideas
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Future Founders, Here’s How to Spot and Build in Nonobvious Markets
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Nietzsche on How to Find Yourself and the True Value of Education
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'There is no such thing as past or future': physicist Carlo Rovelli on changing how we think about time
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-- Buffer --
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The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything
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9 Things First-Time Founders Get Wrong About The Journey
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Product School
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Why Your Cost of Sales Generally Doubles As You Scale
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Nailing Sales In A Startup —Is It An Art or A Science?
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Make Friends With the Monster Chewing on Your Leg, and Other Tips for Surviving Startups
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Why Great Products Do Only One Thing
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How to Deliver Constructive Feedback in Difficult Situations
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Over hiring is the startup kiss of death. Here’s how to avoid it.
49
Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity
50
Too Many VC Cooks in the Kitchen?
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10 tips to turn your startup board into a secret weapon
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How VCs Negotiate: 8 Skills Top Founders Master for Startup Fundraising
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Getting Ahead By Being Inefficient
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Don’t Freak Out, The Fundraising Bible is Here
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10 Small Design Mistakes We Still Make
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The a16z Pitch Room: Sandbox VR
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A fully automated startup equity model, by TOTEM
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How to fundraise like a BOSS
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Decoding Difficult Conversations: My Interview with Negotiation Expert, Sheila Heen [The Knowledge Project Ep. #57]
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3 Sales Email Templates to Get and Keep Buyers' Attention
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The Benefits of and Questions Facing Remote and Distributed Startups
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SaaS Pages
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30 Principles from “Pre-Suasion” by Robert Cialdini (For More Conversions)
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How SaaS Companies Can Best Leverage a Product-led Growth Strategy
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Outro - Retros done right.
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Making Data Science Work
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The Best Interview Questions We've Ever Published
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How to Get Rich: Every Episode
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The Fundraising Checklist: 13 Proof Points for Series A
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Hundreds of Interviews Later — A Hiring Guide
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The Ultimate Guide to SaaS Product Management
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Real-time collaboration for remote and distributed teams.
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The 13 Immutable Reads on Choosing What to Work On — Vasili Shynkarenka
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We Studied 100 Mentor-Mentee Matches — Here’s What Makes Mentorship Work
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Making Uncommon Knowledge Common
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The Power of Performance Reviews: Use This System to Become a Better Manager
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From Zero to IPO: How Growth Needs to Evolve at Every Startup Stage
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I Asked 100 Founders, CEOs and VCs About Career Transitions — Here’s What I Learned
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Lessons from Keith Rabois Essay 4: How to run an Effective Board Meeting and make an Effective Board Deck
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For Startups
https://salon.thefamily.co/7-people-that-will-help-you-scale-from-10-to-200-employees-654b29bd360e
The transition from being a “Doer-in-chief” (building a product people want) to a “Company-builder-in-chief” (hiring, managing & scaling a stellar team) is certainly not the most natural progression. As a first-time founder, you’ll probably get overly excited by this brand-new CEO job.
HR/People
Resource / Knowledge
https://www.nfx.com/post/9-habits-world-class-startups
‍@JamesCurrier). James is a Managing Partner at NFX, a seed and series A venture firm based in San Francisco. Startups that grow into transformative companies do two things: (1) they nail the basics and (2) they cultivate the right habits (core operating principles).
General
Advice
https://github.com/src-d/guide
Welcome! The source{d} guide documentation is where you will find all information relevant for sourcerers (source{d} team members) and anyone interested in who we are, what we do, and how we do it. This documentation is open to everyone, sourcerers and non-sourcerers.
Company Building
Resource / Knowledge
December 07, 2018 at 02:25PM
read, transparency, twitter
http://firstround.com/review/the-30-best-pieces-of-advice-for-entrepreneurs-in-2017/
As we looked through what we published in 2017 to highlight the very best knowledge shared, two things stood out to us.
General
Resource / Knowledge
November 20, 2018 at 08:58PM
read, twitter
https://www.animalz.co/blog/library-vs-publication/
In a recent conversation with Intercom content director John Collins, I mentioned how much Animalz customers admire the Intercom blog. A number have even asked that we help make their own blogs more like Intercom’s.
Communication
Advice
November 17, 2018 at 01:58PM
communication, content, read, twitter
https://www.intercom.com/books/sales-handbook
is a collection of actionable lessons from industry leaders who have scaled sales at companies like Intercom, LinkedIn, HubSpot, Marketo, Terminus and more.
Sales
Resource / Knowledge
December 30, 2018 at 06:17PM
read, sales
https://andrewchen.co/how-to-build-a-growth-team/
Building a new growth team is hard. You have to figure out the macro organizational issues – how it fits in with marketing, product, and other functions – as well as the micro, like how to measure the success of these teams.
Growth
Resource / Knowledge
November 14, 2018 at 09:04AM
growth, read
https://firstround.com/review/how-superhuman-built-an-engine-to-find-product-market-fit/
This article is by Rahul Vohra, the founder and CEO of Superhuman — a startup building the fastest email experience in the world. We’ve all heard that product/market fit drives startup success — and that the lack thereof is what’s lurking behind almost every failure.
Product-Market Fit
Resource / Knowledge
November 14, 2018 at 09:03AM
consumer, growth, market fit, product, read
http://firstround.com/review/The-Secret-to-Making-Board-Meetings-Suck-Less/
“When I was a young entrepreneur, board meetings were by far the worst days of my life,” says Jeff Bonforte, the veteran company-builder who just sold his latest, Xobni, to Yahoo. “Board meetings are the height of insecurity for a CEO.
Company Building
Resource / Knowledge
April 17, 2018 at 04:13AM
board, read
https://medium.com/@AvenueTalentPartners/how-to-fix-the-2-of-the-biggest-issues-plaguing-startup-sales-right-now-ca9b4eeb929c
I’m sure you’ve heard (and maybe experienced it for yourself), but some of the data floating around on the state of sales in the tech startup space is pretty crazy right now.
Sales
Opinion
Resource / Knowledge
April 18, 2018 at 05:17PM
read, sales goals
https://baremetrics.com/blog/founder-writing
We all need traffic. Targeted traffic to our sites that’ll convert. SEO, PPC ads, organic social media posts, blogs, email newsletters, a culture manifesto — you name it, content must be produced.
Communication
Resource / Knowledge
April 19, 2018 at 05:02PM
communication, content, read
https://medium.com/@raskin/coaching-ceos-to-craft-the-story-rather-than-doing-it-for-them-3fc2bd5813e9
In 2016, the CEO of a New York City tech startup that had raised over $30 million (Flybridge, Accel) called me with what initially sounded like a questionable idea.
Brand
Resource / Knowledge
May 03, 2018 at 04:54AM
communication, narrative, read, story
http://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/subtle-mid-stage-pitfalls
A lot has been written about the dangers that early-stage startups face. But startups face a different and equally lethal set of dangers in what we could call the mid-stage–the stage after the company has figured out what it's doing and has raised some money to go off and do it.
Company Building
Advice
July 18, 2018 at 01:36PM
read, strategy, twitter, equity story
https://www.octoboard.com/
No experience or IT support required. Octoboard is 100% self-service software. It collects, visualises and automatically updates data for over 5000 business clients – in the cloud and on premise.
Company Building
Tool
January 01, 2019 at 11:11AM
read, reporting, vc
https://sparktoro.com/blog/why-elon-musks-people-as-vectors-analogy-resonates/
In his keynote at INBOUND last year, Dharmesh Shah (Hubspot’s cofounder) shared a personal story of meeting Elon Musk and their short but powerful conversation about aligning people on a team as you would vectors in an equation.
Company Building
Opinion
January 01, 2019 at 11:30PM
leadership, management, people, read
https://salon.thefamily.co/how-to-create-your-own-startup-identity-9a558ab6d30
I recently gave a talk to startup founders, on a topic I love: visual identity (you can find the slides here).
Brand
Identity
Resource / Knowledge
November 15, 2018 at 08:16AM
brand, identity, read, twitter
https://twitter.com/davidcummings/status/1063826529082331136
Culture is powerful. Culture is a unique differentiator. Culture is the only thing in complete control of the entrepreneur. Here are 12 ideas to strengthen culture...
Culture
Company Building
Twitter thread
Resource / Knowledge
November 24, 2018 at 10:51AM
culture, read, twitter
https://andrewchen.co/investor-metrics-deck/
Growing startups and evaluating startups share common skills Earlier this year, I joined Andreessen Horowitz as a General Partner, where I focus on a broad spectrum of consumer startups: marketplaces, entertainment/media, and social platforms.
Data / Metrics
Resource / Knowledge
November 01, 2018 at 10:34PM
data, metrics, read, twitter
https://a16z.com/2018/10/19/when-sales-isnt-just-selling-advice-for-founders-in-early-markets/
Perhaps the single greatest early challenge faced by founders in early markets is going from product to sales — specifically, a repeatable sales process.
Sales
Advice
October 22, 2018 at 01:35PM
read, sales, twitter
https://firstround.com/review/trellos-product-lead-on-the-unique-ramp-to-a-10-person-product-org/
We hear a lot of talk about the first employee at a startup or on a team. Nikita Dyer Miller has made a specialty of being the fourth product manager. It may not sound glamorous, but that’s a uniquely challenging — and impactful — space to occupy.
Product
Organisation
Resource / Knowledge
October 18, 2018 at 12:03AM
product, read
https://blackboxofpm.com/product-management-mental-models-for-everyone-31e7828cb50b
Mental models are simple expressions of complex processes or relationships. These models are accumulated over time by an individual and used to make faster and better decisions. Here’s an example: the Pareto Principle states that roughly 80% of all outputs comes from 20% of the effort.
Product
Resource / Knowledge
October 10, 2018 at 06:38PM
product, read
https://visible.vc/blog/ready-embrace-transparency-keep-3-things-mind/
Much has been written about the benefits of organizational transparency, but some startup founders are still slow to adopt it in their businesses. It is awfully hard for an employee, investor, or advisor to add value to a business when they’re left in the dark.
Company Building
Resource / Knowledge
October 07, 2018 at 10:13PM
read, transparency
https://open.buffer.com/5-whys-process/
Sometimes things don’t go according to plan. Tools break, wires get crossed, the best-laid plans fall apart. And on those occasions, it helps to know exactly what happened—so it doesn’t happen again.
Inspiration
October 07, 2018 at 10:13PM
ownership, read, why
https://firstround.com/review/growth-at-all-costs-is-perilous-this-is-how-to-scale-sales-sustainably/
Earlier in her career, Karen Rhorer was rising through the sales ops leadership ranks and working with her team to come up with an aggressive hiring plan, trying to reverse engineer the sales team capable of delivering the equally aggressive bookings numbers that their startup had set.
Sales
Growth
Opinion
Resource / Knowledge
September 27, 2018 at 12:14AM
read, sales, twitter
http://firstround.com/review/use-this-equation-to-determine-diagnose-and-repair-trust/
Anne Raimondi was stumped. Two people she managed weren't getting along, and it was really impacting progress. In her private conversations with each of them, they had the same goals and wanted the same things. But in the room together, they'd disagree on everything.
Company Building
Resource / Knowledge
September 17, 2018 at 08:08AM
culture, read, twitter
https://firstround.com/review/pinterest-and-grubhubs-former-growth-lead-on-building-content-loops/
Hockey stick growth. Word-of-mouth. Going viral. Look beyond the jargon and find the stuff of founders’ dreams: the type of explosive growth startups covet. The most celebrated companies are lauded for swift, exponential user growth — a reality that most startups fail to replicate.
Growth
Communication
Resource / Knowledge
August 29, 2018 at 12:49AM
community, content, marketing, read, twitter
https://medium.com/project-management-learnings/spotify-squad-framework-part-i-8f74bcfcd761
I watched this video about the Spotify Engineering culture last year and BOOM, my mind just exploded. Don’t forget to also read the part II here. I felt completely in love with Spotify and its culture.
Organisation
Resource / Knowledge
August 27, 2018 at 06:14PM
culture, management, organisation, read, twitter
http://firstround.com/review/how-gusto-built-scalable-hiring-practices-rooted-in-tradition/
These comments are frequently splashed across the Glassdoor pages of startups. It’s because navigating intense growth spurts is hard.
HR/People
Resource / Knowledge
August 25, 2018 at 12:50AM
hiring, read, twitter
https://firstround.com/review/this-90-day-plan-turns-engineers-into-remarkable-managers/
There’s an all-too-common cycle in tech these days. Startup avoids management. Founder makes all the decisions. Startup gets traction. Hiring takes off. Management is suddenly needed. Founder turns to his best engineer: “I’m drowning. Can you manage this team for me?"
Organisation
HR/People
Resource / Knowledge
July 22, 2018 at 11:10PM
management, read, tech, twitter
https://andrewchen.co/marketplace-startups-best-essays/
The current generation of marketplace startups has been incredibly successful. Airbnb, Lime, Uber, Lyft, Instacart, etc. I’ve been doing a broad survey of the best writing on this topic and wanted to share my list of 20 best links I’ve seen.
Resource / Knowledge
July 11, 2018 at 12:48PM
marketplaces, read
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/01/why-its-so-expensive-to-build-urban-rail-in-the-us/551408/
In late December, The New York Times published a bombshell article by Brian Rosenthal about high construction costs on the New York City subway. Doing painstaking investigative work building on a set of numbers I blogged about in 2011, Rosenthal showed how, at $2.
Resource / Knowledge
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1074702865762082816
Question for economists: Can you think of a way to tell whether headcount is more a cause or an effect of revenues? I've always suspected it's more the latter than most people think.
General
Twitter thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5f8bqYYwps
Steve Jobs last interview with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at the All Things Digital: D8 Conference in 2010. Steve Jobs died a year later in 2011.
Inspiration
November 26, 2018 at 09:37PM
apple, inspiration, read, twitter
https://fs.blog/2017/12/against-empathy/
You don’t have to look hard to find quotes expounding the need for more empathy in society. As with Barack Obama’s quote above, we are encouraged to actively build empathy with others — especially those who are different from us.
Opinion
November 25, 2018 at 03:37PM
empathy, psychology, read, twitter
http://firstround.com/review/wait-but-whys-tim-urban-on-parsing-and-transmitting-complex-ideas/
In Bruce Lee’s final film, his character fights his way to the top of a pagoda, vanquishing foes of different fighting styles on each floor. As he ascends, he finds opponents more challenging than the last.
Resource / Knowledge
March 13, 2018 at 06:13PM
complexity, read, twitter
https://firstround.com/review/future-founders-heres-how-to-spot-and-build-in-nonobvious-markets/
Startup lore is peppered with tales of unconventional ideas that founders were able to push past the naysayers, riding market forces that others didn’t even see coming straight to the top.
Inspiration
Resource / Knowledge
September 20, 2018 at 01:49PM
market, read
https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/09/30/nietzsche-find-yourself-schopenhauer-as-educator/
“Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?” Elizabeth Gilbert asked in framing her catalyst for creative magic.
Inspiration
August 25, 2018 at 04:50PM
education, philosophy, read, twitter
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/14/carlo-rovelli-exploding-commonsense-notions-order-of-time-interview
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics sold over a million copies around the world. Now Rovelli is back to explore the mysteries of time. He tells Charlotte Higgins about student revolution and how his quantum leap began with an acid trip
Inspiration
April 14, 2018 at 08:03PM
physics, quantum, read
https://fs.blog/2012/04/learn-anything-faster-with-the-feynman-technique/
If you’re not learning you’re standing still. So what’s the best way to learn new subjects and identify gaps in our existing knowledge? There are two types of knowledge and most of us focus on the wrong one. The first type of knowledge focuses on knowing the name of something.
January 04, 2019 at 11:44AM
feynman, learning, read
https://www.saastr.com/9-things-first-time-founders-get-wrong-about-the-journey/
Want to start your own SaaS company? Do it.  It is hard, harder than you can imagine.  But if you do it right, and for real — it can last 30+ years.
January 11, 2019 at 09:41AM
read, saas
https://www.productschool.com/
16 Campuses 500+ Instructors 5,000+ Alumni Part-time courses designed to fit into your work schedule. Our instructors are Real-World Managers working at top tech companies such as Google, Facebook, Snapchat, Airbnb, LinkedIn, PayPal, and Netflix.
January 17, 2019 at 11:04AM
product, product management, read
https://www.saastr.com/why-your-cost-of-sales-often-doubles-as-you-scale/
One of the biggest things first-time founders intuit wrong is how much sales efficiency plummets … just as it is getting good. Usually, most SaaS start-ups follow a pattern where the CEO starts off doing founder-led sales. Then, after she hires a few sales reps, and makes a few mistakes.
March 24, 2019 at 03:00PM
read, saas
https://medium.com/@keji_mustapha/nailing-sales-in-a-startup-is-it-an-art-or-a-science-ad5488ddec42
Sales is arguably one of the hardest of the power company functions to nail. Not only is it hard to hard to built out a repeatable, scalable process but it’s also scary.
May 05, 2019 at 01:24AM
read, sales, techniques
https://firstround.com/review/make-friends-with-the-monster-chewing-on-your-leg-and-other-tips-for-surviving-startups/
In September 2015, Molly Graham shared a new article with her Twitter followers, writing that it contained “All the things I know about scaling and how to try to do it well.
April 30, 2019 at 08:44PM
philosophy, psychology, read
https://uxplanet.org/why-greatest-products-do-only-one-thing-b57764559d1b
Uber did not allow you to pre-book a taxi. Amazon started out by selling books only. Google was just a search engine. McDonald’s got rid of cutlery. And somehow we still believe that for a product to be successful it must do many things.
April 13, 2019 at 12:44PM
design, product, read
https://medium.dave-bailey.com/the-essential-guide-to-difficult-conversations-41f736e63ccf
“We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel,”―Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication All my biggest regrets as a founder are around…
April 05, 2019 at 12:25PM
management, negotiation, read
https://labs.openviewpartners.com/over-hiring-is-the-startup-kiss-of-death-heres-how-to-avoid-it/
How do we get the people who have what it takes to help us believe in our mission enough to take a risk and join the cause? I’ve seen many founders make these mistakes… and I’ve even made them myself. We don’t have to do these things (and we shouldn’t).
April 02, 2019 at 11:42PM
hiring, read
https://pmarchive.com/guide_to_personal_productivity.html
One of my all-time favorite guilty pleasures is indulging in productivity porn. Productivity porn (or, for those really in the know, "productivity pr0n") consists of techniques, tactics, and tricks for maximizing personal productivity -- or, as they say, "getting things done".
March 11, 2019 at 09:42AM
productivity, read
https://medium.com/correlation-ventures/too-many-vc-cooks-in-the-kitchen-65439f422b8
At Correlation Ventures, we spend a fair amount of time using our proprietary database to identify the telltale signs of successful startups. One question we asked recently is whether there are diminishing returns for adding VCs to the board of directors at venture-backed startups.
March 08, 2019 at 02:52PM
board, read, vc
https://medium.com/samaipata-ventures/10-tips-to-turn-your-startup-board-into-a-secret-weapon-cf34000c2e54
Over the last last 9 years I’ve been involved in 20 different boards, mostly start-up boards. Sometimes my role was lead investor, others non-lead investor, chairman, or independent director and in 1 case (at La Nevera Roja) as founder & CEO.
March 08, 2019 at 02:52PM
board, communication, read
https://www.nfx.com/post/8-top-skills-founders-startup-fundraising
@gigilevy). Gigi is a Managing Partner at NFX, a seed and series A venture firm based in San Francisco. NFX also builds free software tools for Founders, like Signal - the fastest way Founders find their intro paths to top VCs.‍
February 05, 2019 at 09:54PM
fundraising, read, vc
https://fs.blog/2019/01/getting-ahead-inefficient/
Inefficient does not mean ineffective, and it is certainly not the same as lazy. You get things done – just not in the most effective way possible. You’re a bit sloppy, and use more energy. But don’t feel bad about it. There is real value in not being the best.
February 03, 2019 at 05:42PM
efficiency, psychology, read
https://salon.thefamily.co/dont-freak-out-the-fundraising-bible-is-here-156a059fe824
I work at The Family, selecting and supporting our entrepreneurs. One thing they have in common is the glint of terror (and excitement) in their eyes when the dreaded word comes up: F-U-N-D-R-A-I-S-I-N-G.
January 31, 2019 at 01:59PM
fundraising, read
https://uxplanet.org/10-small-design-mistakes-we-still-make-1cd5f60bc708
The saying that “good design is obvious” is pretty damn old, and I am sure it took different shapes in the previous centuries. It referred to good food, music, architecture, clothes, philosophy and everything else.
May 05, 2019 at 07:52PM
design, product, read
https://a16z.com/2019/05/03/a16z-pitch-room-sandbox-vr/
Have you ever wished you could be in the room when founders present to the Andreessen Horowitz investing team? Even better, do you wish you could stay to hear the discussion after the pitch? We hear you and are thrilled to launch our latest series of videos called “The a16z Pitch Room”.
May 06, 2019 at 04:59AM
pitch, read, vc
https://medium.com/@rafaldelavergne/a-fully-automated-startup-equity-model-by-totem-b5391774564c
Including a link to download a fully automated spreadsheet to make your own equity model. ? TOTEM was founded 2 years ago by 3 engineers wanting to help companies find better (=meaningful) perks and better ways to incentivise employees.
May 06, 2019 at 06:17AM
equity, model, read
https://medium.com/@fdestin/how-to-fundraise-like-a-boss-7eed64808ae9
100% of founders agree: raising money is a frustrating, tedious, unpredictable process. The only upside are the memories made in comically bad VC meetings, and the few standout VC encounters along the way.
May 06, 2019 at 06:16AM
fundraising, read
https://fs.blog/sheila-heen/
Two time NY Times best selling author and lecturer at Harvard Law School, Sheila Heen makes the tough talks easier by breaking down the three layers that make up every difficult conversation. On today’s episode of The Knowledge Project, I’m thrilled to welcome Sheila Heen.
May 06, 2019 at 05:48AM
communication, negotiation, psychology, read
https://blog.hubspot.com/sales/sales-email-templates-to-get-and-keep-buyers-attention
This post originally appeared on HubSpot's Agency blog. For more content like this, subscribe to Agency. When it comes to email, it’s more important than ever that you write concise, effective communication when communicating with or trying to gain the attention of a prospect.
May 13, 2019 at 09:24AM
outbound, read, sales
https://tomtunguz.com/remote-and-fully-distributed/
In 2013, Scott Berkun authored a book called The Year Without Pants. Scott shared his experience working remotely for Wordpress. After I read the book, I wrote:
May 31, 2019 at 12:17PM
company building, management, organisation, read, remote
https://saaspages.xyz/undefined/profile
Each block lists the best practices to convert the most visitors to customers. There's also helpful articles and screenshots from the top landing pages! We will only send you the latest landing pages and the most relevant articles. Never spam.
July 28, 2019 at 04:54PM
benchmark, homepage, read, saas
https://samueljwoods.com/30-principles-pre-suasion-robert-cialdini-conversions/
Even the most well-planned marketing campaign achieves lackluster results without the right audience. But what if the right audience can be warmed up to your message before they even see it?
January 06, 2019 at 01:59PM
marketing, persuasion, read, sales
https://visible.vc/blog/product-led-growth/
The importance of executing on the product side of the business has long been a primary focus for countless successful founders and notable startup advisers.
May 31, 2019 at 12:17PM
growth, product, read
https://outro.co
A new take on retrospectives for progressive teams. 30 minutes a week will help you build a more effective, more close-knit team.
June 10, 2019 at 07:33AM
company building, product, read, retrospective
https://medium.com/sequoia-capital/making-data-science-work-db71fb9e1da1
Starting a tech company and building a good product has become easier thanks to improved connectivity, the declining costs of cloud storage and computing, and the accessibility of distribution platforms that can reach large target audiences.
June 12, 2019 at 06:42PM
data, read, science
https://firstround.com/review/the-best-interview-questions-weve-ever-published/
Hiring is by far the biggest concern we hear from founders. Finding the right people to work at your company is high-stakes. Poor performers can take a catastrophic toll on your success.
June 21, 2019 at 09:51AM
interviews, read
https://nav.al/how-to-get-rich
This giant episode collects all of my interviews with Nivi on How to Get Rich. These interviews are based on my tweetstorm. The individual interviews are here. The podcast is available on Apple, YouTube, Spotify, Overcast, Google, and other podcast apps. Here we go.
June 26, 2019 at 06:32PM
read, self
https://www.nfx.com/post/fundraising-checklist-13-proof-points-series-a
@PeteFlint). Pete is a Managing Partner at NFX, a seed-stage venture firm based in San Francisco. NFX also builds free software tools for Founders, like Signal - the fastest way Founders find their intro paths to top VCs.
July 05, 2019 at 09:02AM
fundraising, read
https://medium.com/@margaridagsl/hiring-guide-for-startups-d98e9f7b8e4a
Last year I interviewed over 100 engineers in 3 months. Before that, the same number across a larger variety of roles. This is a summary of hiring best practices for early stage startups.
July 03, 2019 at 12:40AM
hiring, read
https://openviewpartners.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-saas-product-management/
Special thanks to Miriam Richter, Adelina Irimia and Adina Mic for helping compile this guide. It’s easy to forget that SaaS product management is a relatively new, and still emerging, function.
June 25, 2019 at 08:25PM
product management, read
https://tandem.chat
Talk in one click, co-work, and jump into a collaboration session on your favorite apps.
August 03, 2019 at 08:51AM
read, remote
https://vasilishynkarenka.com/blog/13-reads-on-choosing-what-to-work-on
When our startup failed, I didn’t know what to do next. I’ve always been busy running somewhere but never had the time to think hard about where I was heading.
August 31, 2019 at 08:37PM
development, read, self
https://firstround.com/review/we-studied-100-mentor-mentee-matches-heres-what-makes-mentorship-work/
When First Round launched its Mentorship Program in 2016, we didn’t know what to expect. We’d heard from a number of people in our community that mentorship remained an elusive, missing piece in their careers. Younger people said it was intimidating and difficult to find a mentor.
August 22, 2019 at 10:43PM
mentorship, read
https://kwokchain.com/2019/04/09/making-uncommon-knowledge-common/
Preface: This is part of a longer private memo analyzing Zillow and its recent shift towards Opendoor’s model. May publish rest of memo at some later point. But wanted to share first part, on Rich Barton and Zillow’s initial rise.
August 17, 2019 at 10:23AM
read
https://firstround.com/review/the-power-of-performance-reviews-use-this-system-to-become-a-better-manager/
This article is by Lenny Rachitsky, a former product lead at Airbnb. Back when I was a young PM, one of my managers altered the trajectory of my career. It was my second year at Airbnb. I was doing okay, but not great.
August 15, 2019 at 03:54AM
okr, performance, read, review
https://firstround.com/review/from-zero-to-ipo-how-growth-needs-to-evolve-at-every-startup-stage/
Brian Rothenberg’s career has spanned every stage of startup growth, from scrappy zero to triumphant IPO.
August 13, 2019 at 09:27AM
read
https://firstround.com/review/i-asked-100-founders-ceos-and-vcs-about-career-transitions-heres-what-i-learned/
A founder’s life leaves little time for pause. From the moment that the next big startup idea strikes, the tempo is set by the breakneck quest to scale.
July 25, 2019 at 10:07PM
career, read
http://delian.io/lessons-4
This week’s essay is on how to prepare for a board meeting, though many of the lessons apply to internal reviews as well.
June 25, 2019 at 09:29AM
board, read
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