First Round Review
VerifiedOnline/Digital
We believe that there is powerful, untapped knowledge out there that can transform the way people build technology.
There's just one problem: It's trapped in other people's heads — people who are at the top of their fields, who rarely have time to share what they've learned (even when they want to). The Review is about liberating this knowledge to inspire and accelerate action. To deliver on this mission, we'll make you three promises...
1) We'll get out of the way and let experts speak directly to you about what they believe is most important. (That's why we choose not to use bylines.)
2) Every article will serve up tactics that you can use today to change your company and your career.
3) We will never be boring. The stories you find on here are crafted to teach, to engage and to stick.
We launched The Review to cut through the noise so that you can make an impact. We can't wait to see what happens next. Source
Actions
Media Outlet details
| Scope | National, Trade/B2B |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Country | United States of America |
Similarweb UVM
|
Request pricing |
Comscore UVM
|
Request pricing |
Recent Articles
Search ArticlesClay’s principles for finding product market fit | Kareem Amin (Co-founder and CEO)
Episode 118 Clay’s path to product market fit: Building vertical, creating power users, and understanding founder psychology | Kareem Amin (Co-founder and CEO) Kareem Amin is a 2x founder and current CEO of the lead generation software Clay. In this episode, he dives into everything from how to stay ruthlessly focused on one customer persona, a three-step formula for finding product-market fit, and why founder psychology is an underrated factor in the success of a startup.
Software is Eating Hardware - Lessons for Building Magical Devices
“Software is eating hardware.” That might sound counterintuitive given all the innovative hardware plays in the mix today — from Android Wear, SmartThings, Sproutling and Nest to the hotly anticipated iWatch. But Adam MacBeth, an advocate of the software-first approach, would argue that those products are only as compelling as the end-to-end experience that sets them alight.
Hypergrowth and The Law of Startup Physics
The leadership at Coinbase, Lyft, Checkr and other high-flying startups are grateful that their coach, Khalid Halim, didn’t skip out on a class called Military Science as an undergrad at UCLA. What he thought was a throwaway course delivered one of his most valuable insights: “I started noticing patterns in startups — which I’ve validated with executives and VCs over the years — that how companies scale and break matches military groupings.
The new PLG playbook | Arming the next generation of product-led companies | Oliver Jay (Asana, Dropbox)
Episode 116 Oliver Jay is a sales and expansion specialist. Oliver was Chief Revenue Officer at Asana and led the company’s global expansion. He grew the team from 20 to 450 people and increased international income to 40% of Asana’s total revenue. Prior to this, Oliver built the first business sales team at Dropbox, and led the company’s expansion into the Asia-Pacific region while tripling ARR.
The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2023
It’s the first week of the new year, and here on The Review we’re ushering it in with a beloved annual ritual (that we find to be much more delightful than other yearly exercises like annual planning or performance reviews). Before powering full steam ahead into 2024, we press pause and leaf through every article we published in the past year, plucking out our favorite snippets of company-building wisdom.
The [Adjective] [Number] Things You Need to Know About Clickbait
While running the real estate blog for Trulia, then-marketing manager Tara-Nicholle Nelson got a surprising email. A woman wrote in to tell her that a Trulia blog post saved her marriage. It wasn’t about the perfect combo of beds and bathrooms or whether to buy a Craftsman or a Colonial. It instead outlined the variables that make up one’s vision of a home — a proxy for how buyers wanted to live after they bought a home.
Mastering modern entrepreneurship with Steve Blank
Episode 115 Mastering modern entrepreneurship | Building lean, starting young, and studying customers | Steve Blank (Author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany) Steve Blank, an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University, is widely regarded as the father of modern entrepreneurship. Prior to academia, Steve’s career spanned eight different startups. Credited with launching the Lean Startup movement, Steve has changed how startups are built, and how entrepreneurship is taught.
Look Back to Leap Ahead: 7 Questions for Your End of Year Reflection
Introduction As the year draws to a close, you may find yourself in a reflective mood. There’s plenty to take stock of as you look back on how 2023 went. There’s the quantitative stats — if your startup hit its revenue goals and if your team delivered on its quarterly numbers, how your team grew (or shrank), or personal metrics like how many books you read or miles you racked up on Strava.
How to take bigger, bolder product bets
Introduction It was the middle of 2020, and it became clear to Slack’s Chief Product Officer Noah Desai Weiss that the product’s first-day user experience needed a complete overhaul. Up until this point, the product team had tinkered with hundreds of little experiments to the core platform’s UI — all trying to inch towards optimizing the onboarding funnel for new teams signing up. But amidst all of the experimenting, Slack’s growth had plateaued.