How Product Strategy Fails in the Real World

Why does strategy tend to stall when the rubber hits the road? Nate Stewart, Chief Product Officer of Cockroach Labs, shares an essential guide for creating a resilient strategy that’s still standing next year.

How Product Strategy Fails in the Real World — What to Avoid When Building Highly-Technical Products

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A 4-Step Pricing Framework to Build Products With Scalable Unit Economics

Pricing pro Dee Sahni shares a highly customizable framework for tweaking your monetization and pricing model so that it scales with you, not against you as the company grows. She then applies the 4-step framework to household-name companies like Amazon, Netflix and Uber.

Don't Let Growth Hurt Your Margins: A 4-Step Pricing Framework to Build Products With Scalable Unit Economics

The 5 Phases of Figma’s Community-Led Growth

Claire Butler, Figma’s first business hire, walks us through the different phases of the company’s community-led growth model — from planting the seeds with power users in stealth mode all the way to layering a sales motion and moving upmarket. 

The 5 Phases of Figma’s Community-Led Growth: From Stealth to Enterprise

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Now’s the Perfect Time to Retool Your Hiring Process

Whether hiring is slowing down or keeping pace, now's the time to revamp your process, from job description to offer. Peoplism's founders share unexpected tips, from swapping resumes for a screener survey, to sharing interview questions in advance. 

Why Now’s the Perfect Time to Retool Your Hiring Process and Get Creative

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The Critical Startup Skills You Should Spend More Time On 

We’ve combed the extensive Review archives for tactical guidance from some of the sharpest folks we know on how to get better at specific startup skills you’re probably discounting. Leaders like Annie Duke, Liz Fosslien, Brie Wolfson and more share tactical ideas for putting more focus onto the critical development areas you might be overlooking. 

The Critical Startup Skills You Might Be Overlooking — And How to Bring Them Into Focus

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The Simple Guidebook to Upping Your Management Game

Russ Laraway wades through all of the competing opinions, complex frameworks and advice out there on how to be a better manager, creating a simple, data-backed leadership toolkit.

Stop Overcomplicating It: The Simple Guidebook to Upping Your Management Game

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How to Help Your Team Face Down Uncertainty, Burnout and Perfectionism

Uncertainty, burnout and perfectionism are holding teams back — Liz Fosslien is here to share tactical advice (and her signature witty illustrations) on how managers can help.

A Manager’s Guide to Helping Teams Face Down Uncertainty, Burnout and Perfectionism

We asked top startup leaders to share the questions they ask themselves to become better managers and assembled their answers into a can't-miss checklist. 

35 Impactful Questions Managers Should Ask Themselves Regularly

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A Tactical Guide to Working with Executive Assistants

Sam Corcos, co-founder & CEO of Levels, admits he's obsessive about optimizing his time. He shares the ins and outs of how he delegates 400 tasks a month with this ultra-specific guide to working with executive assistants. 

A Tactical Guide to Working with EAs: How to Make Delegation Your Superpower

How to Chart Your Engineering Career Path

From early employee to technical founder: Amber Feng shares essential lessons for engineers up and down the org chart, drawing from her 8-year career at Stripe and becoming a technical founder of Cocoon. 

How to Chart Your Engineering Career Path: IC, Manager or Technical Founder? 

"Take Control of Your Desk" — Career Tips for ICs, Managers & Founders

After an 11-year career as an HR exec at Splunk, Shreya Iyer unpacks her comprehensive guide to startup career growth, with tailored tips for candidates approaching career planning, managers looking to retain top talent, and startups carving out their career development plans. 

"Take Control of Your Desk," And Other Career Tips for ICs, Managers & Founders

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Ditch Your To-Do List — Use These Docs To Make More Impact

After tackling startup challenges from Stripe Press to Figma Education, Brie Wolfson shares her personal collection of templates — the docs that she's used to stay focused on the work that matters and true to her own career goals.

Ditch Your To-Do List and Use These Docs To Make More Impact

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 How to Make Better Decisions When Starting & Scaling Companies

The First Round team has been lucky to work with retired poker player and decision-making expert Annie Duke in a special capacity these past few years. Here, we open-source some of the advice she gives to help founders face down uncertainty and make better decisions.

The Tactical Guide to Making Better Decisions When Starting and Scaling Companies

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23 Company Building Lessons From Stripe & Notion

From Stripe to Notion, Cristina Cordova has worked on some of the biggest products in tech. Now a Partner at First Round, she shares tactical tidbits on what she’s learned about about scaling companies and shaping your career.

23 Tactical Company Building Lessons, Learned From Scaling Stripe & Notion

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Use This Framework to Build (and Evaluate) Early Company Culture

There are tons of reads on why company culture matters, but few on how to actually architect it. And it’s rarely examined at the co-founding duo, 5-person team, or 30-person startup level. Laura Del Beccaro aims to change that by sharing this 3-step framework she’s leaned on while building Sora.