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One of the newsletters I genuinely look forward to: First Round Review. Great product insights, fun and sharp writing. Big fan of how they break down earlystage execution.

The “building the plane while flying it” metaphor gets thrown out frequently. But it doesn’t quite capture the fact that you're also building yourself as a founder while you're doing it. You're simultaneously constructing the plane, learning to fly and getting your pilot's

3 new products going out today! First: AI MEETING NOTES 🎙️✨ Syncs with Notion Calendar, or works on any Notion page (just type /meet). - No more typing notes! - No creepy bots - State-of-the-art AI summaries w/ templates - Ask questions anytime - Transcriptions that

"I've sat with founders who've hit major milestones — like a successful fundraise — only to find themselves more stressed than before, because achieving one goal becomes the starting line for ten new ones," says Dr. Emily Anhalt. She shares a guide for founders to build their

Your ICP can’t be “anyone with a budget.” It should be so narrow that when you describe who your product’s for, your friends think you’re kinda crazy for building something so niche. And in my view, defining a radically specific ICP is one of the most overlooked steps in going

Choosing a radically specific ICP seems like it goes against every founder’s instinct. It feels wrong. It feels scary. That was Kareem Amin's initial feeling while building Clay: "When you narrow the scope, it feels claustrophobic. But eventually, we realized that by

Close to none of Braze's first 1,000 signups after launching publicly in 2012 are customers today — because most of those companies went under. The founders’ initial idea was to build a platform to help mobile devs monetize their apps by engaging with their users. But the

Rethink the impulse to message your coworker, “Can we hop on a quick call?” As a Maven 🏛 co-founder, AltMBA co-creator, Seth Godin collaborator and newsletter writer, Wes Kao 🏛 is a masterful communicator on just about every medium. And as a coach, she’s just as skilled at

Very excited that David AI is announcing their Series A, just 6 months after we led their Seed!! Not just that, but they raised their A from 2 exceptional investors -- Jack Altman at Alt Capital & Sarah Catanzaro at Amplify Partners. I wanted to share why our excitement for David

If you’re building a product before your ICP is ready to buy it, founder-led sales might look more like founder-led education. Back in 2011, Braze built a customer engagement platform for mobile apps long before enterprise marketing teams were thinking about how to show up on a

Mike Molinet scaled Branch to over $100M in ARR. Here’s his 4 tips for nailing founder-led sales:

Figma’s eval process for its new prompt-to-functional-app experience, Figma Make, relied on the team’s ability to scale human judgement. To avoid the “garbage in, garbage out” problem, humans were part of it in several key ways: 1. Success metrics were around usability — the

“I thought I knew what shipping quickly looked like, but when I started working with Seth Godin, I realized that was child's play.” Wes Kao 🏛 shares an example of how he taught her to set ridiculously high bars for herself: When they were working together to build the AltMBA,

“Prototypes are the new PRD. We’re at the point now where it almost takes as much time to get to a prototype as it does to write a good PRD,” says David Kossnick 🇮🇱, Figma’s Head of Product, AI. This speed helped his team validate the company’s new prompt-to-functional-app experience,

Fractional execs are all the rage on LinkedIn. Should you hire one for your early-stage startup? On The Review, fractional COO Amanda Schwartz Ramirez (Amanda Schwartz Ramirez) answers all the FAQs she gets from founders about working with part-time leaders. She breaks down: -What

“I don’t believe you can build the optimal tool for anything if it’s very flexible and endlessly customizable.” Just a few of Karri Saarinen's against-the-grain tactics for building the tool he wishes he had when he was a product designer: 🔹Designing for an ultra-specific ICP

I cannot understate how excited I am about @getSolidroad announcing their $6.5M seed round (which I was honored to lead First Round) so I can talk about them publicly! More on their contrarian AI approach in the $400B+ customer service industry & why I frickin love this team 👇

When you need a new exec for a startup, you usually have two options: “Buy” and hire externally, or “build” and promote someone more junior on the team. But both can be costly if things don’t work out. There’s also a third option: “renting,” or bringing on a part-time exec