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Design Thinking, Lean Startup and Agile: What is the difference?
https://medium.com/xplor8/design-thinking-lean-startup-and-agile-what-is-the-difference-1eed3594b121
What is the difference between Design Thinking, Lean Startup and Agile?
How to maintain engineering velocity as you scale
https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/how-to-maintain-engineering-velocity-as-you-scale • 15+ min
Faire’s engineering team grew from five to over 100 engineers in three years. Throughout this growth, we were able to sustain our pace of engineering execution by adhering to four guiding principles.
10 things we've learned about A/B testing for startups
https://newsletter.posthog.com/p/10-things-weve-learned-about-ab-testing • 6 min
#1 Failure is inevitable. Embrace it.
The 100 Best Bits of Advice Ever Shared on First Round Review
https://review.firstround.com/100-best-bits-of-advice-from-first-round-review • 20+ min
We combed The Review archives for a special compilation of the 100 very best advice published on our digital pages over the last 10 years from folks like Stewart Butterfield, Claire Hughes Johnson and…
Frameworks
https://mikefisher.substack.com/p/frameworks • 4 min
Growth stages of companies and products
How to do product positioning
https://evanjconrad.com/posts/product-abstraction • 7 min
Making products is hard. The advice you get doesn't help much; either it's too vague to be useful or too specific to be applicable to your situation. These notes build a model of how products work…
How to Cultivate Resilience: A Four Part Framework
https://every.to/rethinking-resilience/how-to-cultivate-resilience-a-four-part-framework • 15+ min
Part I of Rethinking Resilience
A Few of My Favorite Acquisition Loops
https://www.fishmanafnewsletter.com/p/the-template-acquisition-loop-canva-figma • 9 min
A walkthrough of the template Loop used by Canva, Figma, Adobe, Miro, Airtable and Notion with a quantitative growth model to measure this loop at your company
The 30 Best Pieces of Advice we Heard in 2023
https://review.firstround.com/the-30-best-pieces-of-advice-for-entrepreneurs-in-2023
For the 11th year in a row, we rounded up 30 essential company-building insights for startups to lean on in the coming year, no matter the climate.
The Silent Killer of Your Operating Practice: Fear
https://review.firstround.com/the-silent-killer-of-your-operating-practice-fear • 20+ min
Amanda Schwartz Ramirez, former PayPal strategy leader and now COO advisor for startups, shares the 5 biggest fears that can derail your company's strategic planning sessions (and tactical advice for…
Behind the scenes of Calendly’s rapid growth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tUIGpgmsZw
Annie Pearl is the Chief Product Officer at Calendly. Previously, she was Chief Product Officer at Glassdoor, as well as Director of Product Management at Bo...
35 Interview Questions for Manager Candidates
https://review.firstround.com/interview-questions-for-management-position • 20+ min
We asked top hiring managers and startup leaders to share their favorite questions for interviewing management candidates.
Performance & Compensation (for Eng Execs).
https://lethain.com/performance-compensation-process-exec • 15+ min
Uber’s original performance process was called “T3B3” and was remarkably simple: write the individuals top 3 strengths, and top 3 weaknesses, and share the feedback with them directly in person. There…
How to Spot Business Ideas Worth Pursuing
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/364542
Your company might be eager to innovate, but you'll want to have a strategy in place to govern the prioritization of ideas - and avoid chasing shiny objects.
Lessons from working with 600+ YC startups
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoKLofsp8u0
Gustaf Alströmer is a Group Partner at Y Combinator, where he has worked with over 600 startups. He’s also a fellow Airbnb alumnus and even started the origi...