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Replit’s Path to Product-Market Fit—The $1 Billion Side Project

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The Saboteurs That Threaten Innovation — And How to Handle Them

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Passing the Button-Clicker Test, and Other 0 to 1 Lessons from Lattice’s First Marketing Hire

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Non-Obvious Signs of Early Startup Traction — And How to Spot Them

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Why Startup Marketers Should Be Diagnosticians — Advice from OpenAI's and Stripe's First Marketing Hire

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Gong’s Path to Product-Market Fit — Why This $7B Company Still Works With Design Partners

August 22, 2024

Here’s What You Can Really Expect When Pitching Your Seed-Stage Startup at a VC Partner Meeting

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Make an Org Chart You Want to Ship — Advice from Linear on How Heirloom Tomatoes Should Inspire Team Design

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The Guide to Going Multi-Product: 11 Tactics for Tackling Your Next Bet

July 25, 2024

Starting an Analytics Org From Scratch — Lessons From a Decade at DoorDash

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Clay’s Path to Product-Market Fit — A 7-Year 'Overnight Success'

June 27, 2024

Unexpected Anti-Patterns for Engineering Leaders — Lessons From Stripe, Uber & Carta

May 30, 2024

20 Lessons From 20 Different Paths to Product-Market Fit — Advice for Founders, From Founders

May 07, 2024

How Notion Does Marketing: A Deep-Dive Into its Community, Influencers & Growth Playbooks

April 30, 2024

Take Two: Eight Hard-Earned Lessons from Repeat Founders on Starting Over Again

April 23, 2024

The Not So Cookie-Cutter Approach to Company Building — 8 Lessons from Zapier

April 19, 2024

Build Your Culture Like a Product — Lessons from Asana’s Head of People

April 11, 2024

Navigating the Legal Maze: A Founder’s Guide to Hiring Lawyers at Every Stage of Your Startup

April 04, 2024

Navigating New Waters: 10 Tips for First-Time Founder Success

April 01, 2024

How to Know if Your Idea’s the Right One — A Founder’s Guide for Successful Early-Stage Customer Discovery

March 05, 2024

GOAT’s Path to Product-Market Fit — How a Fake Sneaker Sparked a $4B Idea

February 28, 2024

From Flagship Back to Fledgling: Lessons on Going Multi-Product From an Early Stripe PM

February 23, 2024

Add More Rigor to Your Reference Calls With These 25 Questions

February 15, 2024

Vercel’s Path to Product-Market Fit — From Open-Source Project to Billion-Dollar Business

February 08, 2024

How to Build an Iconic Brand Without Breaking the Bank — This Founder's Formula for Early Marketing

February 02, 2024

The Secret to Running Effective Growth Sprints — Follow This Process to Learn Faster

January 31, 2024

Pilot’s Path to Product-Market Fit — Three-Peat Founders on Picking the Right Team and the Right Market

January 28, 2024

The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2023

January 25, 2024

Look Back to Leap Ahead: 7 Questions for Your End of Year Reflection

January 24, 2024

How to Take Bigger, Bolder Product Bets — Lessons from Slack’s Chief Product Officer

December 13, 2023

New Engineering Managers Have a High Failure Rate — This Figma Leader is on a Mission to Fix It

December 04, 2023

Shippo’s Path to Product-Market Fit — The Upside of Being Industry Outsiders

November 28, 2023

The 100 Best Bits of Advice from 10 Years of First Round Review

November 16, 2023

Storytelling as a Craft: Advice from 5 Experts on How to Tell a Compelling Business Story

November 09, 2023

Hire Better Managers: 35 Interview Questions for Assessing a Candidate

October 30, 2023

Binti’s Path to Product-Market Fit — Lessons in Immersive User Research

March 15, 2023

“Sweat the Details” and Other Commandments for Mapping Out a Career in Product

February 28, 2023

The Startup’s Guide to Customer Advocacy: How to Get Closer to Your Champions

February 21, 2023

X1's Path to Product-Market Fit — How the Consumer Credit Card Company Pulled off a Pandemic Pivot

February 15, 2023

The Startup Founder’s Guide to Hiring a Data Scientist

February 14, 2023

Pull, Don’t Push: How Catalysts Overcome Barriers and Drive Product Adoption

January 31, 2023

Retool’s Path to Product-Market Fit — Lessons for Getting to 100 Happy Customers, Faster

January 25, 2023

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January 19, 2023

Maven's Path to Product-Market Fit — Lessons for Leveraging Community in the Early Days

January 11, 2023

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January 04, 2023

How to be an Exceptional Chief of Staff: Advice for Scaling Impact at Startups

December 20, 2022

From BigCo to Startup: 20 Tips for Evaluating Early-Stage Companies & Making the Leap

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Airtable's Path to Product-Market Fit — Lessons for Building Horizontal Products

December 07, 2022

Investing in Internal Documentation: A Brick-by-Brick Guide for Startups

December 01, 2022

Annual Planning in Uncertain Times: 6 Tactics for Rethinking Your Company’s End-of-Year Exercise

November 17, 2022

Grit or Quit? Tactical Advice for Founders Facing Tough Company Building Decisions

October 11, 2022

How Product Strategy Fails in the Real World — What to Avoid When Building Highly-Technical Products

September 27, 2022

Don't Let Growth Hurt Your Margins: A 4-Step Pricing Framework to Build Products With Scalable Unit Economics

September 08, 2022

The 5 Phases of Figma’s Community-Led Growth: From Stealth to Enterprise

September 01, 2022

Why Now’s the Perfect Time to Retool Your Hiring Process and Get Creative

August 02, 2022

The Critical Startup Skills You Might Be Overlooking — And How to Bring Them Into Focus

July 28, 2022

Stop Overcomplicating It: The Simple Guidebook to Upping Your Management Game

June 21, 2022

A Manager’s Guide to Helping Teams Face Down Uncertainty, Burnout and Perfectionism

May 24, 2022

35 Impactful Questions Managers Should Ask Themselves Regularly

May 17, 2022

A Tactical Guide to Working with EAs: How to Make Delegation Your Superpower

May 10, 2022

How to Chart Your Engineering Career Path: IC, Manager or Technical Founder?

May 03, 2022

"Take Control of Your Desk," And Other Career Tips for ICs, Managers & Founders

April 26, 2022

Ditch Your To-Do List and Use These Docs To Make More Impact

April 19, 2022

The Tactical Guide to Making Better Decisions When Starting and Scaling Companies

April 05, 2022

23 Tactical Company Building Lessons, Learned From Scaling Stripe & Notion

March 22, 2022

Run This Diagnostic to Thoughtfully Build (and Evaluate) Your Startup’s Culture

March 15, 2022

Set “Non-Goals” and Build a Product Strategy Stack — Lessons For Product Leaders

March 08, 2022

The Company-Building Cornerstones Every Founder Needs to Focus On — Advice From HubSpot’s Dharmesh Shah

February 08, 2022

Your Startup’s Management Training Probably Sucks — Here’s How to Make it Better

January 27, 2022

Great Startups Deserve Great Brands — Build a Strong Foundation by Avoiding These Mistakes

January 25, 2022

The Art of Becoming a Better Listener — Tactical Advice for the Startup Setting

January 20, 2022

The Best Managers Don’t Fix, They Coach — Four Tools to Add to Your Toolkit

January 11, 2022

The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2021

January 04, 2022

The Design Leadership Playbook: How to Hire, Onboard & Manage a High-Impact Design Org

December 07, 2021

The IC’s Guide to Driving Career Conversations — 25 Tips for Purposeful Career Planning

November 30, 2021

A Founder’s Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Your First 1,000 Community Members

November 23, 2021

The Best Leaders are Feedback Magnets — Here’s How to Become One

November 16, 2021

Finding Language/Market Fit: How to Make Customers Feel Like You’ve Read Their Minds

November 09, 2021

The Feedback Founders Need to Hear — How to Grow Yourself To Grow The Company

November 04, 2021

The Playbook This Startup Used to Get Their Founders on 100+ Podcasts in 6 Months

October 21, 2021

The Playbook for Hiring the Right Marketer at the Right Time for Your Startup

October 12, 2021

The Ultimate Guide to Running Executive Meetings — 25 Tips from Top Startup Leaders

September 21, 2021

The Minimum Viable Testing Process for Evaluating Startup Ideas

September 14, 2021

Advice for the Pre-Product/Market Fit Days — This Founder’s Playbook for Pivoting with Purpose

September 09, 2021

20 Underrated Qualities to Look for in Candidates — And 50+ Interview Questions to Suss Them Out

September 07, 2021

A UX Research Crash Course for Founders — Customer Discovery Tips from Zoom, Zapier & Dropbox

September 02, 2021

“Get Off the Floor” and Other Career Advice from Microsoft, Looker, Reddit & Twitter

August 31, 2021

8 Product Hurdles Every Founder Must Clear — This PM-Turned-Founder Shares His Playbooks

August 26, 2021

The Chief People Officer as PM: Rethinking The Systems & Tools That Run the Company

August 24, 2021

The Startup Happiness Formula — This 3X Founder Shares His Approach to Figuring Out What to Build Next

August 19, 2021

12 Frameworks for Finding Startup Ideas — Advice for Future Founders

August 17, 2021

When it Comes to These Company Building Blocks, Borrow From Others — Advice From Thumbtack’s CEO

August 12, 2021

An Exact Breakdown of How One CEO Spent His First Two Years of Company-Building

August 10, 2021

Better Meetings Make for Better Days — 20 Tactical Ideas to Try Out With Your Team

July 29, 2021

The 30 Best Bits of Advice We’ve Heard on Our Podcast (So Far)

July 20, 2021

The 25 Micro-Habits of High-Impact Managers

June 15, 2021

Starting a Company in a Space You’re Not an Expert in — This Founder Shares 6 Lessons

May 26, 2021

Ask Why It Won’t Work, And Other Lessons This Founder Relies on While Building From 0 to 1

May 13, 2021

Hiring a VP of Engineering? Use This Framework from Shopify’s VPE to Get it Right

April 29, 2021

Counterintuitive Lessons on How to Get Better as You Scale, From Twilio’s Jeff Lawson

April 27, 2021

Between Sales and Product: Building Out Self-Serve and Customer Experience at Notion & Dropbox

April 22, 2021

3 Rules for Building a More Caring Culture — This Chief People Officer Shares Lessons from Lambda School & InVision

April 20, 2021

Joining a Startup for the First Time? 30 Actionable Tips From Folks Who've Been There

April 13, 2021

Following “Radical Candor,” Kim Scott is Back with Another Incredible Framework for “Just Work”

April 06, 2021

The Engineering Leader’s Guide to Crafting a Personal Brand that Stands Out From the Crowd

March 30, 2021

This GTM-Leader-Turned-Investor Crowdsources Early Lessons From Stripe, Figma & More

March 23, 2021

Focus on Your First 10 Systems, Not Just Your First 10 Hires — This Chief of Staff Shares His Playbook

February 25, 2021

Making Self-Care Tactical — Why You Should Focus on Boundaries, Not Just Bubble Baths

February 23, 2021

From Exec Roles to Board Seats — Lessons for the Startup C-Suite from Zendesk, Guru, eBay, & More

February 19, 2021

How to Build an Invention Machine — 6 Lessons That Powered Amazon’s Success

February 19, 2021

How to Build a Culture of Ownership, and Other Engineering Leadership Tips from Plaid & Dropbox

February 03, 2021

Unpacking 5 of Atlassian’s Most Unconventional Company-Building Moves

February 03, 2021

Build Products That Solve Real Problems With This Lightweight JTBD Framework

January 14, 2021

The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2020

January 12, 2021

The First-Time Founder’s Guide to Learning Everything the Hard Way

January 05, 2021

Finding Startup Ideas and Building in Heavily-Regulated Spaces — Lessons from Cash App & Carbon Health

December 22, 2020

Fresh Off IPO, Upstart’s CEO Shares Why the Startup Isn’t a Typical Success Story

December 22, 2020

A Tactical Guide to Managing Up: 30 Tips from the Smartest People We Know

December 15, 2020

How This 5X Founder Creates an Internal Culture With a “Crazy Focus” on Storytelling

December 08, 2020

The Case for Adding DesignOps to Your Org Chart — Lessons From InVision

November 24, 2020

Build Products That Solve Real Problems With This Lightweight JTBD Framework

November 17, 2020

6 Counterintuitive Rules for Being a Better Manager — Advice from Lambda School, Quip & Facebook

November 03, 2020

Your Marketing Org is Slow. Here’s a Framework to Move Faster.

October 27, 2020

The 40 Best Questions to Ask in an Interview — How to Go Deeper Than “What’s the Culture Like?”

October 27, 2020

Your Marketing Org is Slow. Here’s a Framework to Move Faster.

October 27, 2020

Drive Growth by Picking the Right Lane — A Customer Acquisition Playbook for Consumer Startups

October 20, 2020

6 Small Steps for Handling the Emotional Ups and Downs at Work

October 16, 2020

Use This Startup's Playbook for Running Impactful Virtual Offsites

October 16, 2020

The Ultimate Guide to the Founding Designer Role

October 15, 2020

Don't Just Throw Together a Webinar — The Virtual Events Crash Course You Need

October 15, 2020

Advice is More Important — and Overwhelming — Than Ever. Here's How Founders Can Cut out the Noise

October 15, 2020

Weathering the Emotional Storms of a Crisis — A Tactical Guide for Individual Contributors and Managers

October 14, 2020

This VP is Doing Things Differently in the Product Org — Here’s His Playbook

August 20, 2020

A Founder's Guide to Writing Well

August 04, 2020

How to Take Personal Development Off the Backburner — Tactical Frameworks for Leveling Up

July 28, 2020

The Manager’s Guide to Inclusive Leadership — Small Habits That Make a Big Impact

June 18, 2020

Hit the Emotional Gym — The Founder's Framework for Emotional Fitness

May 26, 2020

When “Grin and Bear It” Isn't the Right Answer — This Behavioral Scientist Shares What to Do Instead

May 19, 2020

Advice is More Important — and Overwhelming — Than Ever. Here's How Founders Can Cut Through the Noise

May 12, 2020

The Founder's Field Guide for Navigating This Crisis — Advice from Recession-Era Leaders, Investors and CEOs Currently at the Helm

April 09, 2020

Struggling to Thrive as a Large Team Working Remotely? This Exec Has the Field Guide You Need

April 02, 2020

This Founder Built Startups in 2008, 2016 and 2018. Here’s What He’s Learned About Resiliency

March 17, 2020

Managers, Take Your 1:1s to the Next Level with These 6 Must Reads

February 27, 2020

After 15 Years as a Product Leader, CEO and Now VC, Here’s the Advice I Always Share with Future Founders

February 04, 2020

The Engineer’s Guide to Career Growth — Advice from My Time at Stripe and Facebook

January 21, 2020

The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2019

January 09, 2020

How to Craft Your Product Team at Every Stage, From Pre-Product/Market Fit to Hypergrowth

December 10, 2019

How to Fix the Co-Founder Fights You’re Sick of Having — Lessons from Couples Therapist Esther Perel

December 03, 2019

How to Be a Career-Changing Mentor — 25 Tips From The Best Mentors We Know

November 19, 2019

Good Leaders are Great Storytellers — Our 6 Tips for Telling Stories That Resonate

October 29, 2019

Don’t Serve Burnt Pizza (And Other Lessons in Building Minimum Lovable Products)

October 22, 2019

Step Up Your Sales Coaching Game — Dig Into The Numbers to Help Your Reps Level Up

October 15, 2019

Announcing First Round Essentials — After Publishing 180+ Articles on Management, We're Releasing Our First Book

October 08, 2019

The Founder Dating Playbook – Here’s the Process I Used to Find My Co-Founder

October 01, 2019

The Secret to a Great Planning Process — Lessons from Airbnb and Eventbrite

September 26, 2019

Ready, Set, Hypergrowth: How Duo's Product Design Lead Primed Her Team for Momentum

September 17, 2019

40 Favorite Interview Questions from Some of the Sharpest Folks We Know

September 05, 2019

Reach Out, Stay in Touch and Deepen Your Connections with This Essential Networking Advice

August 22, 2019

From Instant Pot to Instagram: Critical Lessons in Startup Community Building

August 20, 2019

Staying Connected is Key to Your Startup’s Survival — Here’s How to Nail Internal Comms

August 15, 2019

NerdWallet’s CEO on Navigating the Shift from First-Time Founder to Seasoned Exec

August 13, 2019

The 6 Decision-Making Frameworks That Help Startup Leaders Tackle Tough Calls

August 01, 2019

From Zero to IPO: How Growth Needs to Evolve at Every Startup Stage

July 30, 2019

Our 6 Must Reads for Cutting Through Conflict and Tough Conversations

July 25, 2019

I Asked 100 Founders, CEOs and VCs About Career Transitions — Here’s What I Learned

July 23, 2019

The Power of Performance Reviews: Use This System to Become a Better Manager

July 18, 2019

Mastering the Art of the Outcome: How Guru Turned Customer Success Into a Company Cornerstone

July 16, 2019

The Inside Story of How This Startup Turned a 216-Word Pitch Email into a $2.6 Billion Acquisition

July 02, 2019

These Seven Emotions Aren't Deadly — They're Your Secret Career Superpowers

June 25, 2019

Why This Engineering Leader Thinks You Shouldn’t Aim for Zero Regrettable Attrition

June 18, 2019

Our 6 Must Reads for Onboarding Tactics That Help New Hires Succeed (and Stay)

June 11, 2019

Why Qualitative Market Research Belongs in Your Startup Toolkit — and How to Wield it Effectively

June 04, 2019

How to Size and Assess Teams From an Eng Lead at Stripe, Uber and Digg

May 28, 2019

Our Top 6 Pieces of Career Wisdom for New Grads (and Everyone Else Too)

May 21, 2019

So You Think You’re Ready to Hire a Marketer? Read This First.

May 14, 2019

Empathy-Driven Development: How Engineers Can Tap into This Critical Skill

May 07, 2019

Make Friends With the Monster Chewing on Your Leg, and Other Tips for Surviving Startups

April 30, 2019

Our 6 Must Reads for Honing Focus and Managing Your Time

April 16, 2019

The Secrets to Designing a Curiosity-Driven Career

April 09, 2019

Founder Exposed: Opening Up About Startup Failures and Vulnerability

April 02, 2019

The Essential Questions That Have Powered This Top Silicon Valley Manager’s Career

March 19, 2019

Defining Growth Design: The Guide to the Role Most Startups are Missing

March 12, 2019

Navigating the Leap from Big Tech to Startups — Advice from a Former Google and Flipkart Exec

March 05, 2019

How to Make Connections That Count — Advice From a Silicon Valley Veteran (and Introvert)

February 12, 2019

Our 6 Must Reads for Hiring Tactics that Break the Mold

January 29, 2019

What Sweetgreen Can Teach Startups About Scaling Intimacy

January 15, 2019

The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2018

January 08, 2019

The Founder’s Guide to Discipline: Lessons from Front’s Mathilde Collin

December 18, 2018

How Backcountry’s Support Reps Go the Extra Mile — And Get Invited to Their Customers’ Weddings

November 20, 2018

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November 13, 2018

Opening Up About Comp Isn’t Easy — Here’s How to Get More Transparent

October 30, 2018

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October 16, 2018

Lessons from Coinbase’s Wild Ascent: Four Rules for Scaling

October 09, 2018

How to Shape Remarkable Products in the Messy Middle of Building Startups

October 02, 2018

Growth at All Costs is Perilous — This is How to Scale Sales Sustainably

September 25, 2018

Future Founders, Here’s How to Spot and Build in Nonobvious Markets

September 18, 2018

Eight Ways to Make Your D&I Efforts Less Talk and More Walk

September 11, 2018

The Imperative Practice of Relaxing Constraints

September 04, 2018

Pinterest and Grubhub’s Former Growth Lead on Building Content Loops

August 28, 2018

How Gusto Built Scalable Hiring Practices Rooted in Tradition

August 21, 2018

How This Head of Engineering Boosted Transparency at Instagram

August 14, 2018

The Simple Tool That Revives Employee Motivation

July 31, 2018

The Top Comms Mistakes Startups Make — And How To Avoid Them

July 24, 2018

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July 03, 2018

The Type of Team Diversity You’re Probably Not Paying Attention To

June 19, 2018

Hypergrowth and The Law of Startup Physics

June 12, 2018

What Your Startup Can Learn from Astronauts, The Daily Show, and the Coach of the Boston Celtics

June 05, 2018

How Food52 Strikes a Winning Balance Between Content and Commerce

May 22, 2018

ClassPass’ Founder on How Marketplace Startups Can Achieve Product/Market Fit

May 15, 2018

Our 6 Must Reads For Creating and Accelerating Trust on Teams

May 08, 2018

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May 01, 2018

Hack Back Distractions with Tactics from This Behavioral Designer

April 24, 2018

Assembling an Executive Leadership Team is Daunting — Let Thumbtack’s CEO Help

April 17, 2018

Cut Through The Small Talk and Connect — Lessons from 130+ Dinners, Summits and Salons

April 10, 2018

Here's How Women and Startups Can Accelerate Pay Equity in Tech

April 03, 2018

Clean Up Corrosive Interpersonal Dynamics on Your Team with This System

March 27, 2018

User-First Monetization — Lessons from Instagram and Strava

March 20, 2018