Must read
An apology to the founders I’ve met in my first year as an investor
"Sometimes you feel that you’re crushing people’s dreams for a living. However, this is rarely the case and founders are not precious snowflakes."
Culture
What I learned from meeting 100+ mentors in 3 months at Techstars
Three learnings that give you an insight into how 'acceleration' happens for your startup at Techstars.
How to be a person who can made a damn decision
"While most of us can’t relate to the decisions required to turn around a sinking company, perhaps it’s easier to imagine turning around a sinking ship—literally."
Modern Entrepreneurship
Never send a business model canvas to your investors
The canvas should be a helping tool for your team, not your ideas.
Good times aren’t always good — 5 reasons NOT to overfund your startup
"Only 8 months after founding the company we had raised $10.5m, and 15 months later an additional $15m. More money isn’t necessarily always better."
A surprisingly simple technique for a rockstar product vision: The Ladder of Needs
A framework that will help you sell a vision.
Trends
It's official: open plan offices are now the dumbest management fad of all time
A new study from Harvard reveals that open-plan offices decrease rather than increase face-to-face collaboration. How many of you are reading this in their open office?
Product
Guiding principles for effective product discovery
An elaborate overview of key principles that will help you to work on your product.
Design
Design for people, use people language
The Product Design VP of Facebook on why you should pay attention to language, although it might just seem to be a small thing.
Team
You don’t need standup
"What would happen if we didn’t plan every week, didn’t do retros, and didn’t do standup?"
Finance
AI is key to bias-free VC
Securing venture capital funding is hard enough for most founders, but it’s even more difficult for entrepreneurs from underrepresented demographics. AI should be able to cut through those biases and help investors make better decisions.
How to sell your startup for a big payout
How do you negotiate, when do you involve lawyers, and what happens after the acquisition? All questions that are discussed in this article.
And, before getting to that point, make sure to not fall into these biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make while fundraising.
Thank you
Thank you for finishing issue #186 & credits
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