9 Best Articles in 2021
Sam Altman
Startup Playbook
Sam Altman
20+ min read · 1569 saves · From 2018 · Written by Sam Altman · Illustrated by Gregory Koberger · Spanish translationWe spend a lot of time advising startups. Though one-on-one advice will always be crucial, we thought it might help us…
GV
The Design Sprint — Google Ventures
GV
5 min read · 940 saves · From 2015 · The sprint is a five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers.
a16z.com
16 Startup Metrics | Andreessen Horowitz
a16z.com
10 min read · 881 saves · From 2015 · We have the privilege of meeting with thousands of entrepreneurs every year, and in the course of those discussions are presented with all kinds of numbers, measures, and metrics that illustrate the…
Lenny Rachitsky
How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 users
Lenny Rachitsky
~16 min read · 781 saves · 2020-05-12 · Considering every startup confronts this question at some point, I was surprised by how little has been written about it. Particularly anything actionable. So I decided to do my own digging. I spent…
Paul Graham
The Lesson to Unlearn
Paul Graham
~15 min read · 716 saves · 2019-12-07 · December 2019 The most damaging thing you learned in school wasn't something you learned in any specific class. It was learning to get good grades.When I was in college, a particularly earnest…
medium.com
Coronavirus: The Black Swan of 2020
medium.com
6 min read · 615 saves · 2020-03-05 · Here is a note that we sent to Sequoia founders and CEOs today to provide guidance on how to ensure the health of their business while…
TNW
18 best places to promote your startup for virtually nothing
TNW
8 min read · 592 saves · From 2017 · When you have launched a startup or prototype, one of the most important strategies to prove is your business concept and gaining early user traction. If you’re like most startup founders, you don’t have much money, nor do you have enough money to hire a PR agency. However, to become a great entrepreneur means you […]
First Round
How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit
First Round
~20 min read · 580 saves · From 2018 · Superhuman founder and CEO Rahul Vohra walks us through the framework his startup used to make product/market fit more actionable, detailing the survey and four-step process that were key to measuring…
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2 min read · 152 saves · Apr 8th · Earlier this week I caught up with a friend and fellow CEO over lunch. We're in entirely different industries, but, as we usually do, we talk a little shop. We've both been at the wheel for a while,…
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Being in a relationship with a startup founder
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10 min read · 98 saves · Mar 24th · Behind every great founder, there’s an incredibly patient partner. We find out what life is like when you live with (and love) a founder.
Business Insider
The Seed 100: The best early-stage investors
Business Insider
20+ min read · 82 saves · Apr 2nd · Some seed investors succeed more than others. We name the top 100 seed VCs based on analyzing 1,000 of them in partnership Tribe Capital.
The New York Times
The Start-Up Enemies of Wall Street Are Booming
The New York Times
6 min read · 64 saves · Mar 29th · Times are flush for young tech companies like Stripe and Coinbase, which are having a moment as they upend the financial establishment.
a16z
a16z Podcast: The Creator Economy — NFTs and Beyond
a16z
20+ min read · 50 saves · Apr 3rd · Chris Dixon of a16z, Kevin Chou of Rally, and Jesse Walden of Variant Fund discuss how old models are being transformed by tokens of all kinds.
Product Hunt 😸
a16z’s TxO Initiative is funding culture innovators. Here’s why.
Product Hunt 😸
2 min read · 50 saves · Mar 31st · Andreessen Horowitz’s Talent x Opportunity Initiative is introducing its first cohort of accelerator startups on Product Hunt. Our hope is that they’ll build lasting legacies in their communities.
TechCrunch
Y Combinator’s new batch features its largest group of Indian startups
TechCrunch
6 min read · 43 saves · Mar 24th · Y Combinator’s latest batch — W21 — features 350 startups from 41 nations. Fifty percent of the firms, the highest percentage to date, in the new batch are based outside of the United States. India is…
WIRED
Silicon Valley Revs Up for a ‘Hot Startup’ Summer
WIRED
2 min read · 42 saves · Apr 5th · “Now is the time to start stepping on the gas,” as one prominent VC firm put it to founders.
TechCrunch
Gorillas, the on-demand grocery delivery startup, raises $290M and ‘surpasses’ $1B valuation
TechCrunch
3 min read · 38 saves · Mar 25th · Gorillas, the Berlin-HQ’d startup that promises to let you order groceries and other “every day” items for delivery in as little as ten minutes, has raised $290 million in Series B funding, at a…
