Merge’s Path to Product-Market Fit — The Importance of Founder-led Sales (Even for a Self-Serve Product)

Merge’s Path to Product-Market Fit — The Importance of Founder-led Sales (Even for a Self-Serve Product)

Merge founder and CEO Shensi Ding sits down with First Round Partner Todd Jackson for a behind-the-scenes look at how she and co-founder Gil Feig built and scaled a product that solved the painful headache of building and maintaining integrations.
Elevate Your Performance Review Conversations with these 12 Expert Tips

Elevate Your Performance Review Conversations with these 12 Expert Tips

Stop dreading performance reviews. We assembled a list of 12 tips from expert leaders like Lenny Rachitsky, Molly Graham, Russ Laraway, Brie Wolfson, Julie Zhuo and more to make these conversations more impactful. There are frameworks and tactics for managers and reports alike to rethink their appro
Unlock the Power of Money Words: How Founders Can Write Copy That Converts

Unlock the Power of Money Words: How Founders Can Write Copy That Converts

Copyhackers’ Joanna Wiebe shares the science behind word choice to help take your copy from guesswork to goldmine.
Vanta's Path to Product-Market Fit — Solve the Customer’s Problem, Then Write Code

Vanta's Path to Product-Market Fit — Solve the Customer’s Problem, Then Write Code

Vanta founder and CEO Christina Cacioppo sits down with First Round Partner Todd Jackson for an inside look at all the unconventional moves in the company’s first few years — from creating a new category to signing the first 600 customers without a proper website.
Use These 5 Types of Interview Questions to Level Up Your Hiring Process

Use These 5 Types of Interview Questions to Level Up Your Hiring Process

Using different types of interview questions will help you make the right hires for your startup. See our favorite questions to ask across five categories.
How Talent Teams Can Better Weather Boom-and-Bust Cycles — Advice from Two Decades at Gem, Facebook, and Robinhood

How Talent Teams Can Better Weather Boom-and-Bust Cycles — Advice from Two Decades at Gem, Facebook, and Robinhood

Richard Cho has led talent acquisition teams at large tech firms for the better part of two decades. He’s collected the lessons he’s learned from operating in both hiring booms and busts, offering a thoughtful guide on how startup talent teams can do more — with less.
Productboard’s Path to Product-Market Fit — Building a Unicorn Company with Lean Startup Principles

Productboard’s Path to Product-Market Fit — Building a Unicorn Company with Lean Startup Principles

Productboard's founder and CEO Hubert Palan sits down with First Round Partner Todd Jackson for a sweeping look at how he used Steve Blank's principles to build a product that tackled his own pain points as a product manager.
The Art of Self-Awareness: A Founder’s Guide to Assessing Strengths and Weaknesses

The Art of Self-Awareness: A Founder’s Guide to Assessing Strengths and Weaknesses

Psychologist and co-founder of Coa, Dr. Emily Anhalt, unpacks the five traits of high-impact founders — and how the very traits that make a founder successful can also hold them back.
How to Scale Yourself Down — Not Up — as a Leader

How to Scale Yourself Down — Not Up — as a Leader

After a four-decade career of toggling back and forth between big and small, Lightspark SVP of Engineering James Everingham shares his playbook for scaling down your leadership as you go from an org of hundreds or thousands to a handful of direct reports.