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Newsletter Archive

November 16th, 2023

The 100 Best Bits of Advice Ever Shared on First Round Review

We’re celebrating 10 years of publishing First Round Review

October 31st, 2023

Hire Better Managers: 35 Interview Questions for Assessing a Candidate

Better interview questions than “What’s your management style?”

October 25th, 2023

A Founder’s Framework for Understanding Performance vs. Brand Marketing for Your Startup

A guide for startup leaders from two marketing experts

October 18th, 2023

Live Tinted's Path to Product-Market Fit

Live Tinted’s co-founder and CEO shares her company’s path to product-market fit. 

September 27th, 2023

Merge's Path to Product-Market Fit

Merge’s founder and CEO shares the startup’s path to product-market fit

September 21st, 2023

Elevate Your Performance Review Conversations with these 12 Expert Tips

12 expert tips to make performance reviews more impactful

September 12th, 2023

Joanna Wiebe - Money Words

Copyhackers' Joanna Wiebe shares 3 surprisingly simple ways to boost your copy’s conversion power.

August 30th, 2023

Vanta's Path to PMF

An interview with Vanta founder & CEO Christina Cacioppo

August 22nd, 2023

How Talent Teams Can Better Weather Boom-and-Bust Cycles

Advice from a longtime talent leader at Facebook, Robinhood and Gem

August 16th, 2023

The Art of Self-Awareness: A Founder’s Guide to Assessing Strengths and Weaknesses (copy 01)

Productboard’s founder shares his path to product-market fit

August 2nd, 2023

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

Psychologist Dr. Emily Anhalt on the behaviors that set founders apart

July 25th, 2023

James Everingham - Scaling Down Your Leadership

Lightspark's James Everingham (formerly at Netscape, Yahoo, Instagram, and Meta) shares his playbook for moving from BigCo to startups.

July 19th, 2023

Material Security’s Path to Product-Market Fit

Material Security’s co-founders share their path to product-market fit

July 12th, 2023

21 Ways to Shore Up Your Customer Success Org

We compiled tactical advice from a dozen CS experts

June 21st, 2023

WorkOS' Path to Product-Market Fit

First Round partner Todd Jackson interviews WorkOS founder/CEO Michael Grinich

June 13th, 2023

Zūm’s Path to Product-Market Fit

First Round partner Todd Jackson interviews Zum co-founder Ritu Narayan

June 7th, 2023

The Most Common Go-to-Market Questions This Expert Gets from Early Founders

First Round’s VP of GTM, Emery Rosansky, unpacks her tested frameworks

May 24th, 2023

Labelbox's Path to Product-Market Fit

First Round partner Todd Jackson interviews Labelbox co-founder Manu Sharma

May 16th, 2023

'Give Away Your People' — How Managers Can (and Should) Prep for High Performers to Leave

A fresh spin on Molly Graham's "Give Away Your Legos" framework on how managers can (and should) prep for high performers to leave.