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Slush
Always Be Hiring: a Playbook for Early-Stage Founders
Slush
~11 min read · Sep 27th · Why an A+ talent is always worth it and how to secure them with nothing but your startup idea: the A to Z of early-stage hiring with Pigment. · Shared by 64
failory.com
Robinhood's Business Model: How Do They Make Money?
failory.com
9 min read · Sep 29th · How exactly does Robinhood make money if it doesn’t charge users any fees? In this article, we dive into their 5 revenue streams. · Shared by 69
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Lessons from my Failed Startup
Every 📧
8 min read · Sep 27th · How not to be a founder · Shared by 70, including Nathan Baschez 📧
blog.southparkcommons.com
Your CTO Should Actually Be Technical
blog.southparkcommons.com
5 min read · Sep 19th · Why engineering leaders also need to be great engineers. · Shared by 112
First Round
How to scale your co-founder relationship alongside your startup — Manu Sharma & Brian Rieger of Labelbox
First Round
Sep 29th · Manu Sharma and Brian Rieger are the co-founders of Labelbox and in this conversation, they take a microscope to their co-founder DNA and share tons of advice for other entrepreneurs looking for… · Shared by 29
meridian.mercury.com
Love and equity in Silicon Valley
meridian.mercury.com
1 min read · Sep 25th · Adding your romantic partner to your cap table comes with lots of implications. · Shared by 72
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The IKEA Effect - Why people fall in love with their own ideas
mannhowie.com
3 min read · Sep 4th · Howie Mann on Sep 3, 2022 6 minute readThe IKEA effect describes how people come to overvalue things in which they have successfully put effort into. This cognitive bias can pose risks to… · Shared by 284, including Stefan Diepolder, Esther Schindler
First Round
4-Step Pricing Framework to Build Products With Scalable Unit Economics
First Round
20+ min read · Sep 8th · Pricing pro Dee Sahni shares a highly customizable framework for tweaking your monetization and pricing model so that it scales with you, not against you as the company grows. She then applies the 4… · Shared by 245, including William Toll
Reforge
4 Major Problems With The Lean Startup Methodology
Reforge
~13 min read · Sep 8th · Recently, startup veterans have identified four core challenges with the Lean Startup. Let's break each of those down & look at a more effective methodology. · Shared by 224, including Teresa Torres, Sachin Rekhi
Vox
Failure to launch
Vox
~19 min read · Sep 11th · A Vox investigation into Launch House, a startup incubator that promised community, but failed to protect its members. · Shared by 220, including Yash Tekriwal, Kat Tenbarge, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Taylor Lorenz, Huda Idrees, Bill Johnston, Arielle Pardes, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao
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Figma’s Layered Lessons
Every 📧
7 min read · Sep 22nd · Or, how to learn something useful from big events · Shared by 144, including Nathan Baschez 📧
blog.langworth.com
Technical Evaluation of a Startup
blog.langworth.com
~14 min read · Aug 26th · In February of 2021 I was asked to do a technical evaluation for a startup. The team had 7-10 engineers but lacked senior technical leadership, and the investment team and CEO wanted to make sure they… · Shared by 138
future.com
Remote Startups Will Win the War for Top Talent
future.com
4 min read · Aug 24th · Forty percent of workers are considering quitting. Management that opts for empty arguments to force people back in-office will bleed talent to their competition. · Shared by 124, including Stef Walter, Ed Zitron, Jean Carlos Omobono, John Nosta
blog.southparkcommons.com
Your CTO Should Actually Be Technical
blog.southparkcommons.com
5 min read · Sep 19th · Why engineering leaders also need to be great engineers. · Shared by 112
relate.so
What We Learned From Our Five Failed YC Applications and One Successful One
relate.so
5 min read · Sep 9th · We applied six times trying to get into Y Combinator. · Shared by 112
failory.com
Klarna's Business Model: A Dive Into How They Make Money
failory.com
9 min read · Sep 8th · In this article, we analyze Klarna's background, business model, and recent numbers, including revenues, profits, and raised amounts. · Shared by 105
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blog.superhuman.com
Why is ambition important?
blog.superhuman.com
8 min read · Jul 20th · Why is ambition important? Learn from some of the most ambitious entrepreneurs and their successes (and failures). · Shared by 1641, including shishir das
Sam Altman
Startup Playbook
Sam Altman
Summary · 20+ min read · 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… · Shared by 1628, including Sergio Caredda, Sir Lord Travis Wright, Web3 Speaker, Mark Kaigwa, Chris Messina, Herbert Bay, Mark Bao, Moritz Meenen, Zee, Raul Tiru 🌎, Courtney Bolton ★, Sunnie J. Groeneveld, Philip Junker, designshard, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, L. Taylor Banks, Lailo, John Battelle, David Smooke, Jeff Chang, Nir Eyal
First Round
Ditch Your To-Do List and Use These Docs To Make More Impact
First Round
20+ min read · Apr 19th · After tackling startup challenges from Stripe Press to Figma Education, Brie Wolfson shares her personal collection of templates — the docs that she's used to stay focused on the work that matters and… · Shared by 1341, including Rick Pastoor, Stephanie A Kowalski, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Bill Trenchard, Ines Bieler, 👨🏻💻☕️, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙
bariweiss.substack.com
The Case for American Seriousness
bariweiss.substack.com
6 min read · Apr 18th · We don't need aging institutions to pave the way for 21st-century dynamism. What we need is will. And audacity. · Shared by 1137, including Scott Galloway, benahorowitz.eth, Packy McCormick, Bryce Roberts, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Elad Gil, Diogo Mónica, Tara Imani, AIA NCIDQ ASID, cdixon.eth, Michael Eisenberg, Nathan Benaich, Albert Wenger 🌎🔥⌛, Jeffrey Flier, Eghosa Omoigui, Paul Graham, Niall Ferguson
GrowthHackers
Your growth strategy should align with your company's strategy
GrowthHackers
5 min read · May 20th · In the same way that there's no single industry in which growth couldn't be applied, there's also no single timing or strategy of a company… · Shared by 1044, including Startupxplore, Víctor González Pacheco
GV
The Design Sprint — Google Ventures
GV
5 min read · From 2015 · The sprint is a five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers. · Shared by 962, including Mark Kaigwa, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦, Moritz Meenen, Thomas Power, Courtney Bolton ★, Greg Meyer, Tom Bruehwiler, David Luescher, Chris Messina, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, Zain Fathoni, Damian Madray, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, ThomNagy, Katja Evertz, Alex Barrera, Dominik Grolimund, Kunal Bhatia (✈️ SF till 10/1), John Zeratsky, Marko Saric
a16z.com
16 Startup Metrics | Andreessen Horowitz
a16z.com
10 min read · 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… · Shared by 897, including Jeff Jordan, Thomasbcn, Moritz Meenen, Ryan Boren, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Gabriel Weinberg, Vinny Lingham, AdrianLocher, Johannes Lenz, Bernardo Mannelli, Thomas Power, Startupxplore, Mark Kaigwa, Bram Kanstein, John Cutler, Herbert Bay, Tim Herbig, Peter Hogenkamp, Courtney Bolton ★, Sir Lord Travis Wright, Web3 Speaker
longform.asmartbear.com
The Elephant in the room: The myth of exponential hypergrowth
longform.asmartbear.com
20+ min read · Mar 6th · Fast-growing startups are frequently described as “exponential,” especially when the product is “viral.” Turns out, this is incorrect, even for “viral” products like Facebook and Slack. If you have an… · Shared by 893, including David Papandrew, David Pires, Kevin_Indig, Justin Jackson, Esther Schindler, Chris Agro | Agrotising, Rand Fishkin
Lenny Rachitsky
Kickstarting and scaling a consumer business
Lenny Rachitsky
Jul 5th · Step 1: How to come up with an idea · Shared by 880, including Ryan Hoover, Dom Zuend, ErmanTaylan.eth, Mark Kaigwa
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