Tackle whatever's to come in this new year with the best startup advice we heard in 2020.
Dave Girouard sketches out the story of how Upstart got built, detailing the bumpy starts, lucky breaks and lessons learned along the journey to IPO.
Building a good relationship with your boss takes work. Here are the 30 best tips for managing up from accomplished startup leaders.
From screenplay writing inspiration, to how storytelling training is part of their onboarding, CEO David Cancel shares how they drive narrative internally at Drift.
A detailed guide from a design operations pro for how DesignOps can bring the joy back into design for startups.
Steve El-Hage picks his head up and shares his biggest lessons as a first-time founder from the 8-year, heads-down journey of building Drop.
An inside look at the streamlined jobs-to-be-done framework (and templates) used by product leaders at Instagram & Facebook.
The best way to pick startup ideas and advice from Cash App & Carbon Health for heavily regulated industries.
Carly Guthrie has run HR for major restaurant groups and startups. Here, she shares lessons for startups looking to hold onto their talent.
Former Gusto marketing leader Jaleh Rezaei shares a six-step framework for how marketers can "get out of the basement" and start thinking speed-first.
Top startup leaders shared their favorite thought-provoking questions for candidates to ask during an interview to stand out from the crowd and gain in-depth knowledge about the company, the team, and the role.
In Dan Hockenmaier's and Lenny Rachitsky's experience, founders are often surprised to learn that there are very few routes to scalable new customer acquisition. Here, this duo unpacks the three ways to drive consumer startup growth, offering a detailed framework and set of case studies for accelerating in each lane.
Tips you can use every day from seasoned startup veterans and psychology experts on how to manage your emotions at work.
Many team retreats have the tendency to leave participants feeling exhausted, sick of slide deck presentations and itching to get back to the emails that have been piling up in their absence—and virtual offsites add marathon Zoom sessions and interruptions at home to the mix. Here, the Sitka team shares how they planned an intentional, engaging virtual offsite, delving into the framework, agenda and tactics they used to pull it off.
We summarized the most tactical, honest pieces of advice from a group of design experts on what it really takes to be a startup's first design hire.
