Product ClassPass’ Founder on How Marketplace Startups Can Achieve Product/Market Fit It's rarely a straight line to product/market fit. Here are ClassPass founder Payal Kadakia's hard-won tips for marketplace startups that helped her guide her company from a near-bust to a $470M game-changer.
Product 17 Product Managers Who Will Own the Future of NYC Tech — and the 9 Frameworks They’ll Use to Do It Last year, First Round hosted a seminar of 17 rising star product managers in NYC, taught by some of the best product leaders in the tech industry. Here's who they are and what they learned.
People & Culture A New Approach to People Ops That Puts Employee Experience First Patreon's Lucia Guillory is pioneering a new approach to People Ops that creates an end-to-end employee experience AND scales. Early-stage startups take heed.
Management Dear PMs, It's Time to Rethink Agile at Enterprise Startups Flatiron Health's CMO and SVP Product Strategy Ogi Kavazovic explains how traditional PM practices break down at B2B companies, and what they can do instead.
Product Answers To Your Tough Questions About Growth — Learned While Scaling Eventbrite’s $5B+ Growth Engine Brian Rothenberg is a growth guru, having revved up customer acquisition at both TaskRabbit and now Eventbrite. Here, he answers the hardest questions he often gets.
Management Starting Fires on Purpose — When and How Leaders Need to Break the Rules Rebelmouse Founder and CEO Paul Berry on those moments when no playbook can help you and you have to go off script — how to do it right.
Management OpenTable's CEO on How to Dodge Company Breakdown as You Scale OpenTable's leader Christa Quarles explains how startups can spot and survive their breaking points.
Management The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2015 In 2015, we brought you nearly 100 articles chock-full of advice from the best minds in tech. Here, we've distilled this down to the very best, needle-moving insights.
Product Indispensable Growth Frameworks from My Years at Facebook, Twitter and Wealthfront Wealthfront's VP of Growth Andy Johns outlines the three mandatory skills of a growth leader.
Product This Is How You Design Your Mobile App for Maximum Growth Primer CEO Kamo Asatryan has helped dozens of mobile apps achieve explosive growth. Here are his go-to tips.
PR & Marketing Here's What a Real Growth Strategy Looks Like — Road Tested by Facebook and Remind Meenal Balar cut her teeth at Facebook taking growth to a global level. Now she's using this plan to do the same thing at Remind.
Management ‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling Startups Molly Graham helped forge a work culture at Facebook that's withstood huge amounts of growth. Today, she's something of a rapid scaling expert. Here's the key to doing it right, she says.
