Must read
Popcorn, and shipping products
This article presents a striking analogy between popping popcorn and launching products. How do you know when popcorn is ready? Now, do you know when your product is ready?
Culture
Apollo 11’s transcendent leadership lessons
It has been a little over 50 years since the moon landing, but there are still things we can learn from it.
Camille Fournier on managing technical teams
An interview on how to manage technical teams and why managers are not as bad as they’re made out to be.
Just 8% of UK VCs know what it's like to work at a startup
Interesting numbers from this report in the UK: on VCs backgrounds, work experience, and diversity in terms of gender and ethnicity.
Modern Entrepreneurship
A framework on how to find your co-founder
Valuable advice for the search for a co-founder, for example, find a hustler or those that can do more with less.
What metric should innovation programs measure?
How to agree on your metric, set your objectives first, and tell the value of the different metrics apart.
To charge or not to charge? That’s the question for these startups
How to decide when and why to charge your costumers for your product or service.
Trends
21 charts showing current trends in US venture capital
Keep informed on the latest trends in the US venture capital market with these useful charts.
Product
When to give strategic vs. prescriptive design feedback
If you're designing a product or a page there's a thin line between giving feedback that is prescriptive versus strategic. This post takes you through what helps best in which situation.
Finance
Making the most of performance-based warrants
This article explains why warrants are an effective tool to align interest between startup and stakeholder.
Let's talk about dilution
Don't be a spreadsheet warrior, as Chris Sakka once warned. But, do account for dilution when you're raising investment.
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Thank you for finishing issue #234 & credits
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