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General

Casey’s Guide to Finding Product/Market Fit
It’s important to have a strong understanding of what product/market fit looks like before investing in growth. Founders and product leaders struggle with answering this question however. In this post, Casey Winters shares what he learned through scaling multiple startups, launching new products, and advising and investing in dozens of companies.

How the Internet Ate Media
And why there's no going back.

Revenge Of The Winklevii
After losing an epic battle with Mark Zuckerberg over ownership of Facebook and being shunned in Silicon Valley, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are back—this time as budding Bitcoin billionaires at the center of the future of money, the creative economy and quite possibly a new operating model for Big Tech itself.

The first 18 months of a startup

4 Painful Lessons I Had to Learn Again with My New Startup


Marketing, Sales and PR

SEO for SaaS: The Complete Guide to SaaS SEO
Discover the proven SaaS SEO strategy and framework guaranteed to deliver incredible organic growth and increase traffic, signups, and leads from Google month after month after month.

The Netflix effect - The most powerful content marketing channel in the world
In a world where people have the attention span of a goldfish, there is one marketing channel capable of delivering hours on end of branded content into the brains of millions of avid consumers: Netflix.

Growth case study: B2B growth
A detailed look at the journey to spin up Pinterest's B2B growth effort.

When Choosing Marketing Channels, Visualize the Curve


Money and Finance

Playing Different Games
Or why Tiger is eating your lunch (& your deals).

Top VC Firms Don’t Outperform the Broader Market at Seed
There’s no difference in probability of reaching Series A based on whether or not your seed round has a top VC.

What VCs Seek in a First Meeting

What’s happening around the future of pet tech: Drivers, trends, and opportunities


Startups of the Week

Fintor 
Real Estate. Now for the rest of us. Invest in fractional equity shares of real estate properties with as little as $5.

Slash
Spend a fraction of what you otherwise would on subscriptions by seamlessly splitting costs with friends.

Filebase 
Filebase provides S3-compatible object storage at a fraction of the price. Backed by blockchain technology, featuring no fees for ingress or API requests.


Tips, Tools and Services

3 Rules for Building a More Caring Culture
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 great employee experience, enabling a workforce that feels seen and heard, and making an environment where people feel developed.

Don’t hire top talent; hire for weaknesses.
Design your hiring process to find the right people to strengthen your teams' weaknesses, rather than trying to find the best people. Instead of "how can we find the smartest people?" think about "how can we find the people who will make our team stronger?".

Coding Qualitative Data
How to Analyse User Interviews.    
 
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