dwarkeshpatel.com
Talent as leverage
6 min · · 10x engineers, tech bubbles, and the PayPal mafia · Shared by 79, including Víctor González Pacheco, Pomp 🌪, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao
First Round
The art of starting a startup — Gagan Biyani’s advice for generating, validating, and executing on ideas
· 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 311, including Víctor González Pacheco, Prithvi Raju M
First Round
23 Tactical Company Building Lessons, Learned From Scaling Stripe & Notion
20+ min · · 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… · Shared by 675, including Víctor González Pacheco, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Arne Keuning, Massimiliano Aroffo
UX Planet
10 Rules for Product Design From Google X
10 min · · And a moonshot state of mind · Shared by 160, including Víctor González Pacheco, Massimiliano Aroffo, Nick Floro
First Round
A crash course on comms for founders — Nairi Hourdajian’s early-stage advice from Figma & Uber
· 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 · · This article helps you create a great product vision. It describes six essential qualities that a compelling vision has to have. · 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4 min · · The traditional organization chart is as outdated as the dial-up modem.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… · Shared by 62, including Janosch Tröhler, Víctor González Pacheco
Sifted
What do startup founders pay themselves?
6 min · · A new report from Seedcamp reveals average founder salaries in Europe. How much are your peers paying themselves? · Shared by 53, including Víctor González Pacheco
debliu.substack.com
How Painted Doors Can Be a Powerful Tool in Testing and Decision Making
5 min · · Leveraging testing the real world to build better products · Shared by 79, including Víctor González Pacheco
medium.com
The one thing CEOs should delay as long as possible
9 min · · Most CEOs are an urgent breed. · Shared by 60, including Peter Steinberger, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Brian Lovin, cbz, Rob Moffat, Fred Destin, Víctor González Pacheco, Ian M Calvert, 👨🏻💻☕️, p-y.wtf where the sky is blue, Dominic Huang, Ryan Hoover
jeffgothelf.com
How the Business Model Canvas and the Lean UX Canvas Work Together
5 min · · 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. · Shared by 39, including Víctor González Pacheco
Jason Fried
A static business is a healthy business
1 min · · 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… · Shared by 129, including Víctor González Pacheco
First Round
Great Startups Deserve Great Brands — Build a Strong Foundation by Avoiding These Mistakes
20+ min · · 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… · Shared by 274, 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
· 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 157, including Oliver Raduner, Víctor González Pacheco
First Round
The Art of Becoming a Better Listener — Tactical Advice for the Startup Setting
20+ min · · 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… · Shared by 574, including Víctor González Pacheco, Michael Kolade, Sergio Caredda, Bill Trenchard
Harvard Business Review
We Need to Let Go of the Bell Curve
2 min · · We often assume things are more evenly distributed than they actually are — and this influences how we make decisions and manage risk. · Shared by 68, including DP, Víctor González Pacheco, Gabriele, Lee Keyes