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Wednesday, 30 October 2024

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How to Build a Billion-Dollar Marketplace — Do’s and Don’ts from the Growth Expert Behind Grubhub, Pinterest, and More

Wednesday, 16 October 2024

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Annual Planning Sucks — A CPO, CRO, CFO, and COO Share Advice on How to Make it Better

Tuesday, 8 October 2024

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

Friday, 4 October 2024

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The Saboteurs That Threaten Innovation — And How to Handle Them

Monday, 30 September 2024

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How to Measure Product-Market Fit

Thursday, 26 September 2024

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

Thursday, 12 September 2024

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

Wednesday, 28 August 2024

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

Thursday, 22 August 2024

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

Wednesday, 14 August 2024

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

Wednesday, 7 August 2024

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

Thursday, 25 July 2024

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

Friday, 12 July 2024

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

Thursday, 27 June 2024

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

Thursday, 30 May 2024

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

Tuesday, 7 May 2024

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

Tuesday, 30 April 2024

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

Tuesday, 23 April 2024

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

Friday, 19 April 2024

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

Thursday, 11 April 2024

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

Thursday, 4 April 2024

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

Monday, 1 April 2024

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

Tuesday, 5 March 2024

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

Wednesday, 28 February 2024

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

Friday, 23 February 2024

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

Thursday, 15 February 2024

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Add More Rigor to Your Reference Calls With These 25 Questions

Thursday, 8 February 2024

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

Friday, 2 February 2024

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

Wednesday, 31 January 2024

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

Sunday, 28 January 2024

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

Thursday, 25 January 2024

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The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2023

Wednesday, 24 January 2024

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

Wednesday, 13 December 2023

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

Monday, 4 December 2023

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

Tuesday, 28 November 2023

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

Thursday, 16 November 2023

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

Thursday, 9 November 2023

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

Monday, 30 October 2023

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Hire Better Managers: 35 Interview Questions for Assessing a Candidate

Wednesday, 15 March 2023

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

Tuesday, 28 February 2023

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