Joining a Startup for the First Time? 30 Actionable Tips From Folks Who've...
Top startup leaders and operators share their best tips for new startup employees, including hitting the ground running, how to prioritize what to work on, and growing your career.
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Mark Frein has served as Chief People Officer at Return Path, InVision, and now Lambda School. Here, he shares his approach to spinning up the people function, as well as tactical tips for creating a...
View ArticleBetween Sales and Product: Building Out Self-Serve and Customer Experience at...
Kate Taylor spent 8 years at Dropbox leading their SMB revenue and scaled sales operation) and is now the Head of Customer Experience at Notion. Here, she shares actionable tactics on getting...
View ArticleCounterintuitive Lessons on How to Get Better as You Scale, From Twilio’s...
13 years after Twilio first launched, CEO and co-founder Jeff Lawson opens up about the peaks and valleys to share a set of unconventional company building lessons on how to get better as you scale —...
View ArticleHiring a VP of Engineering? Use This Framework from Shopify’s VPE to Get it...
After more than 20 years in tech, eight companies, and thousands of hires, Shopify's Farhan Thawar shares his go-to-framework for snagging a VP of Engineering. From the skills that are most important...
View ArticleAsk Why It Won’t Work, And Other Lessons This Founder Relies on While...
From all the ways a candidate might fail, to how a commonly-used framework might not be a good fit, to where a go-to-market strategy might fall apart, Rick Song shares the pre-mortem technique he...
View ArticleStarting a Company in a Space You’re Not an Expert in — This Founder Shares 6...
From the importance of founder naivety, to seeking out the doubters, to rigorously assessing founder/market fit, Irving Fain shares his lessons from building a company in a space he wasn't an expert...
View ArticleThe 25 Micro-Habits of High-Impact Managers
Sharp folks from across the First Round community share the small habits that great managers do, including delivering feedback with care, opening up about failure, and sending praise up the chain.
View ArticleThe 30 Best Bits of Advice We’ve Heard on Our Podcast (So Far)
As our new podcast crosses the 30-episode mark, we've listened back to each one and plucked out our favorite pieces of advice shared by startup leaders at companies like Notion, Lambda School, Plaid,...
View ArticleBetter Meetings Make for Better Days — 20 Tactical Ideas to Try Out With Your...
We're spending more time in meetings than ever. The sharpest folks we've interviewed share their best tips for making sure this time is well spent.
View ArticleAn Exact Breakdown of How One CEO Spent His First Two Years of Company-Building
Sam Corcos, co-founder & CEO of Levels, tracked exactly how he spent the two years since founding the company for a rare inside look at being a startup leader.
View ArticleWhen it Comes to These Company Building Blocks, Borrow From Others — Advice...
As Thumbtack CEO Marco Zappacosta tells it, sometimes your company is a special flower, and sometimes you should borrow from others. He shares his advice for how to tell the difference.
View Article12 Frameworks for Finding Startup Ideas — Advice for Future Founders
Hoping to start a company someday? We’ve gone back through our archives to surface the best advice on problem selection from first-time entrepreneurs and repeat-founders.
View ArticleThe Startup Happiness Formula — This 3X Founder Shares His Approach to...
Repeat founder Waseem Daher, co-founder and CEO of Pilot, has founded three startups with the same group of co-founders. He pays particular attention to Pilot’s first year — including validating the...
View ArticleThe Chief People Officer as PM: Rethinking The Systems & Tools That Run the...
Credit Karma's Colleen McCreary views her role not as the CEO of culture or happiness, but rather the product manager of the systems and tools that run the company. Here's her advice for approaching...
View Article8 Product Hurdles Every Founder Must Clear — This PM-Turned-Founder Shares...
Repeat PM turned first-time founder Ryan Glasgow addresses the tough product questions every founder faces, from segmenting the market and iterating on early MVPs, to finding product/market fit and...
View Article“Get Off the Floor” and Other Career Advice from Microsoft, Looker, Reddit &...
Nick Caldwell's resume includes an enviable list of companies — Microsoft, Reddit, Looker and Twitter. He shares his biggest lessons from each for a crash course in finding success across different...
View ArticleA UX Research Crash Course for Founders — Customer Discovery Tips from Zoom,...
Zoom’s Jane Davis answers all of your tricky customer development questions, creating a highly tactical guide for founders flying solo on UX research as they explore startup ideas, validate concepts,...
View Article20 Underrated Qualities to Look for in Candidates — And 50+ Interview...
We've rounded up a curated set of attributes you may be overlooking in your hiring process — and the interview questions you can use to surface them.
View ArticleAdvice for the Pre-Product/Market Fit Days — This Founder’s Playbook for...
CEO Tara Viswanathan shares her biggest lessons from the early years of building Rupa Health — including how to pivot your way into the right product and build the winning team.
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