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The Rich Barton Playbook for winning markets through Data Content Loops Preface: This is part of a longer private memo analyzing Zillow and its recent shift towards Opendoor’s model. May publish rest of memo at some later point. But wanted to share first part, on Rich Barton and Zillow’s initial rise. Have had many recent … Continue reading Making Uncommon Knowledge Common →

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A bigger talent pool favors the lucky over the skilled.

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.

I’ve always wanted to make a lot of money, have people pay a lot of attention to me and do a lot of exciting things. I just never knew how. Many of my friends who are founders of their own companies tell me how they exhibited the entrepreneurial spirit as a kid -- they sold candy out of their backpacks, had a landscaping business during the summer, etc. They created value and learned the virtues of hard work early on. But that wasn’t me.

A look inside the pricing playbooks used by dozens of unicorn companies with Pete Flint and Madhavan Ramanujam.

1/ The first 18 months of a startup: After starting my 2nd company in 2019, I decided I would write down useful lessons I learned or…

The Internet King on why the Internet is a force for good, on media conformity, the inevitable triumph of the WEIRD, Crypto, Retards, etc.

Most brands and products are boring and plain. An effective differentiation strategy can help you stand out. Here's what it takes.

How to Win the Internet

You can found an institution, or you can inherit it.

Trends: An Inside Look at How 7-Figure Newsletters Make Money. Presented by: Ethan Brooks Senior Analyst, and Lead Researcher for Guides

How founders got their first 1000 customers

How a list of "funny" customer names triggered an internal reckoning

Where do you start when you're first considering angel investing?

At Basecamp, we treat our company as a product. It's not a rigid thing that exists, it's a flexible, malleable idea that evolves. We aren't stuck with what we have, we can create what we want. Just as we improve products through iteration, we iterate on our company too. Recently, we've made some internal company changes, which, taken i...

Last week, I watching some talks on Youtube and came across one that stood out to me. Keith Rabois introduces the concept of barrels and ammunition, which I thought was a really clever way to view organizations...

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Longtime entrepreneur and investor Mark Leslie on the inevitable truth that when small companies meet big ones, small usually wins out. Here's why.

What successful entrepreneurs have in common.

Roblox is something new and interesting that abstracts away the platforms underneath it.

Email consultant Dan Oshinsky has launched newsletters for the New Yorker and BuzzFeed — and he's learned a few things about how to do email right.

Learn simple and tangible Google search examples you can use for B2B prospecting, Lead Generation, Market Analysis, etc.

In 2005, I cofounded Y Combinator, the first "accelerator." Today there are hundreds of them all over the world, but in 2005 what we were doing was so unusual that most people in Silicon Valley...

When hiring a team, we tend to favor the geniuses who hatch innovative ideas, but overlook the butterflies, the crucial ones who share and implement them. Here’s why it’s important to be both smart AND social. *** In business, it’s never enough to have a great idea. For any innovation to be successful, it has […]

In 1995, Craig Newmark started sending an email to a few friends. That missive led to one of the most important--and profitable--internet companies of all time. An exclusive, in-depth conversation with the founder of Craigslist.

Building a culture of relentless execution