First Round
The art of starting a startup — Gagan Biyani’s advice for generating, validating, and executing on ideas
Apr 21st · Maven co-founder Gagan Biyani shares advice on starting a company — from generating and validating ideas, to exploring business models and finding co-founders.
Shared by 183, including Víctor González Pacheco, Prithvi Raju M
First Round
23 Tactical Company Building Lessons, Learned From Scaling Stripe & Notion
20+ min read · Mar 22nd · From Stripe to Notion, Cristina Cordova has worked on some of the biggest products in tech. Now a Partner at First Round, she shares tactical tidbits on what she’s learned about about scaling…
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 293, including Víctor González Pacheco, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Massimiliano Aroffo
UX Planet
10 Rules for Product Design From Google X
10 min read · Apr 8th · And a moonshot state of mind
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 151, including Víctor González Pacheco, Nick Floro, Massimiliano Aroffo
First Round
A crash course on comms for founders — Nairi Hourdajian’s early-stage advice from Figma & Uber
Mar 31st · Nairi Hourdajian (VP of Communications at Figma & first comms hire at Uber) shares advice on how startups can get comms right, from crafting a narrative and building relationships with reporters, to…
Shared by 164, including Víctor González Pacheco
Roman Pichler
Six Qualities of a Great Product Vision
4 min read · Mar 9th · This article helps you create a great product vision. It describes six essential qualities that a compelling vision has to have.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 53, including Dan Tousignant, CEO, Lean-Agile Coach, Víctor González Pacheco, Massimiliano Aroffo
Corporate Rebels
Blow Up The Traditional Organization Chart
4 min read · Mar 3rd · The traditional organization chart is as outdated as the dial-up modem. Or maybe a fax machine. You know it, I know it, everybody knows it. It's too rigid, reinforces hierarchy, and doesn't support…
Sifted
What do startup founders pay themselves?
6 min read · Feb 28th · A new report from Seedcamp reveals average founder salaries in Europe. How much are your peers paying themselves?
debliu.substack.com
How Painted Doors Can Be a Powerful Tool in Testing and Decision Making
5 min read · Feb 15th · Leveraging testing the real world to build better products
medium.com
The one thing CEOs should delay as long as possible
9 min read · From 2017 · Most CEOs are an urgent breed.
Reader View · Shared by 59, including Peter Steinberger, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Fred Destin, ₵BZ, Rob Moffat, Brian Lovin, Víctor González Pacheco, Ian M Calvert, 👨🏻💻☕️, P.Y., Dominic H, Ryan Hoover
jeffgothelf.com
How the Business Model Canvas and the Lean UX Canvas Work Together
5 min read · Jan 24th · The Business Model Canvas is the high-level assumptions work you need to do before the Lean UX Canvas. Here's how to connect them.
Reader View · Shared by 39, including Víctor González Pacheco
Jason Fried
A static business is a healthy business
1 min read · Feb 3rd · If you have a small handful of customers paying you significantly more than most of your customers, you’re no longer a product company — you’re actually a consulting company working for those big…
Reader View · Shared by 131, including Víctor González Pacheco
First Round
Great Startups Deserve Great Brands — Build a Strong Foundation by Avoiding These Mistakes
20+ min read · Jan 25th · After working with hundreds of startups on brand strategy, Arielle Jackson shares the most common early marketing missteps that founders make. From how to articulate your product benefit and clarify…
Reader View · Shared by 273, including Christian Fauteux, Michael Kolade, Thomas Pleil, Bill Trenchard, Víctor González Pacheco
First Round
The product strategy playbook that powered growth at Tinder & TripAdvisor — Ravi Mehta
Jan 20th · Ravi Mehta is the former CPO at Tinder and taught product strategy as an Executive in Residence at Reforge. He explains what he calls the product strategy stack that he developed in his career at…
Shared by 155, including Oliver Raduner, Víctor González Pacheco
First Round
The Art of Becoming a Better Listener — Tactical Advice for the Startup Setting
20+ min read · Jan 20th · When it comes to annual resolutions and personal development goals, listening usually isn’t very high up on the list. User research leader and author Ximena Vengoechea makes the case for why you…
Reader View · Shared by 542, including Víctor González Pacheco, Michael Kolade, Sergio Caredda, Bill Trenchard
Harvard Business Review
We Need to Let Go of the Bell Curve
2 min read · Jan 14th · We often assume things are more evenly distributed than they actually are — and this influences how we make decisions and manage risk.
Reader View · Shared by 59, including Víctor González Pacheco, David Papandrew, Lee Keyes
First Round
Hire a Top Performer Every Time with These Interview Questions
~15 min read · 2021-12-06 · Koru CEO Kristen Hamilton helps hundreds of people hire and get hired every year. These are the traits she knows translate into excellent performance on the job.
Reader View · Shared by 110, including Marc Zenger, Víctor González Pacheco
