Startup Reading List | June 12, 2015 |
In a welcome move, Jack Dorsey has accepted a position as co-curator of your weekly digest. CEO of Square and Twitter, Jack found that he still had a couple of hours a week to help filter and select the best articles. Jack will focus his efforts on finding articles that can assist entrepreneurs in 140 characters or less.
Enjoy this week's digest readers. See you next week. | Hiring? Access 250+ new candidates every Monday.  Great companies are built with great teams. With Hired, access over 250 pre-screened developers, designers, and tech sales professionals every week all ready to explore new opportunities. Use Hired to find the best talent in tech so you can focus on what you do best. Sign up and make the key hires you need. | | Tom Eisenmann and the DocSend Team DocSend reviewed studied the fundraising of 200 companies to come with key insights that include the average deck review time by a VC is 3m44s | | Albert Wenger "One good definition of empathy is "experiencing emotions that match another person's emotions." Or put differently, the way to "measure user frustration" (where frustration is clearly an emotion) is to experience that emotion oneself." | | Andrew Chen "To me, this is further validation that the best way to bend the retention curve is to target the first few days of usage, and in particular the first visit. That way, users set up themselves up for success. " | | Chris Dixon "The Babe Ruth effect is hard to internalize because people are generally predisposed to avoid losses. Behavioral economists have famously demonstrated that people feel a lot worse about losses of a given size than they feel good about gains of the same size. Losing money feels bad, even if it is part of an investment strategy that succeeds in aggregate." | | | You are receiving this email because you believe that the best startup articles and videos are made by active members of the startup community. © 2009-2015 Startup Digest. Startup Digest is a registered trademark of Startup Weekend. Privacy Policy. All rights reserved. | | |
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