Friday, April 28, 2017

Startup Reading List - Startup Digest - The All First Round Edition - April 28th - May 5th

Startup Digest

Startup Reading List

April 28, 2017

There's always great content coming out of First Round Capital, an early stage startup fund. These four articles are no exception.

Enjoy and have a great weekend.

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Zubin Chagpar

Zubin Chagpar - @phylosopher

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Crack Big, Established Industries

Tracy Young

"They're experts in the product. They train up users and help deploy PlanGrid on new project sites. They channel feedback to our product team and help build the roadmap."

Those Are Vanity Metrics

Lloyd Tabb

"In 2014, a recruitment platform went viral by emailing a user's Facebook friends after a sign-up. Their advisors and investors pressured them to increase daily active users [DAUs]. It's all they focused on."

How Startups Can Scale Without Mutiny

David Loftesness and Alexander Grosse

"If communication between those groups doesn't work, then you create a fertile ground for factions. You get factions when teams cannot seem to collaborate because of differences in vision, differences in working styles. Perhaps there's even mistrust between the teams."

Pivot Survival Tactics

Kevin Chou

"Pivots begin with the growing misalignment of KPIs around product, market, growth and revenue, and they end when you see these figures coming back into alignment"

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