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Anne Raimondi has headed up product, marketing and operations at big names throughout tech. This one lesson is at the heart of her approach to leadership.Continue reading at First Round Review »
View ArticleUser-First Monetization — Lessons from Instagram and Strava
James Quarles played a crucial role in creating Instragram's multi-billion dollar business model. Now CEO of Strava, he's sharing the fundamentals of healthy monetization for startups.Continue reading...
View ArticleClean Up Corrosive Interpersonal Dynamics on Your Team with This System
Laura Gates has repaired interpersonal dynamics for orgs ranging from NASA to Shell Oil, from the military to tech giants. Here's the system she recommends to startups.Continue reading at First Round...
View ArticleHere's How Women and Startups Can Accelerate Pay Equity in Tech
Over two decades, Jana Rich has seen hundreds of compensation negotiations, including patterns in who wins, who loses and why. Read on to learn how startups can begin with good comp hygiene early on,...
View ArticleCut Through The Small Talk and Connect — Lessons from 130+ Dinners, Summits...
Anita Hossain has a gift for turning conversations into community. Throughout her career, she's found ways to help leaders cut through the small talk and surface what matters. Continue reading at First...
View ArticleAssembling an Executive Leadership Team is Daunting — Let Thumbtack’s CEO Help
Recruiting and hiring executives is difficult for any leader, but especially first-time or early-stage founders who may not have enough knowledge to test candidates for skill in their area of...
View ArticleHack Back Distractions with Tactics from This Behavioral Designer
Hooked author Nir Eyal has seen an epidemic of employees who get so distracted at work that they don’t have time to do their job. Here, he shares tactics that'll help you fend off distractions and help...
View ArticlePricing Lessons from Working with 30+ Seed and Series A B2B Startups
As CEO of Entrepid Partners and First Round's Sales Expert in Residence, Gaffney works directly with founders and early sales teams to establish go-to-market strategies and growth plans. Here he shares...
View ArticleOur 6 Must Reads For Creating and Accelerating Trust on Teams
Trust is intangible, but foundational to nearly every part of company-building. We've assembled our top posts from leaders who have gotten particularly tactical with fostering trust on their teams....
View ArticleClassPass’ Founder on How Marketplace Startups Can Achieve Product/Market Fit
It's rarely a straight line to product/market fit. Here are ClassPass founder Payal Kadakia's hard-won tips for marketplace startups that helped her guide her company from a near-bust to a $470M...
View ArticleHow Food52 Strikes a Winning Balance Between Content and Commerce
Food52 co-founders Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs have always led with engaging content, confident that sales would follow. Here's what startups can learn from them on how to connect content and...
View ArticleWhat Your Startup Can Learn from Astronauts, The Daily Show, and the Coach of...
Organizational psychologist and Wharton professor Adam Grant jumps into unconventional workplaces to surface insights that'll help the rest of us work smarter and better. Continue reading at First...
View ArticleHypergrowth and The Law of Startup Physics
Reboot.io founder and professional coach Khalid Halim has guided the leadership at Coinbase, Lyft and Checkr through some of the steepest parts of their growth curve. Here, he shares the two promises...
View ArticleThe Type of Team Diversity You’re Probably Not Paying Attention To
Grammarly Head of People Itamar Goldminz shares a model that can help managers build stronger teams — and become more intuitive, effective leaders. Continue reading at First Round Review »
View ArticleMy Lessons from Interviewing 400+ Engineers Over Three Startups
Engineering leader Marco Rogers (Lever, Yammer, Clover Health) debunks some of the most common recruiting tropes and walks through his four top interviewing practices for startups. Continue reading at...
View ArticleThe Top Comms Mistakes Startups Make — And How To Avoid Them
After two decades of comms experience with companies like Eventbrite, Yahoo, Mattel and Nike, Terra Carmichael shares four common PR mistakes and her techniques for sidestepping them.Continue reading...
View ArticleThe Simple Tool That Revives Employee Motivation
At Pinterest and LinkedIn, product leader Jack Chou learned firsthand how vital it is to zero in continuously on what keeps people motivated as a company scales. Now Head of Product at Affirm, here are...
View ArticleHow This Head of Engineering Boosted Transparency at Instagram
While leading engineering at Instagram, James Everingham spotted a problem: the inevitable dip in transparent decision-making and communication as teams scale. Drawing on three decades of experience,...
View ArticleHow Gusto Built Scalable Hiring Practices Rooted in Tradition
In under six years, Gusto has grown from three guys in a house in Palo Alto to over 600 employees across two offices. Co-founder and CEO Josh Reeves shares how they've scaled the unscalable parts of...
View ArticlePinterest and Grubhub’s Former Growth Lead on Building Content Loops
While at Pinterest and Grubhub, Casey Winters relied on content loops, an overlooked path to growth. Now a scaling advisor to companies such as Eventbrite and Reddit, he shares a 5-step process and...
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