Week 11 - People, products, and things
This week's articles, tweets, and podcasts every founder should check out.
✌🏽Welcome back to Inside Round
Welcome to the eleventh edition of Inside Round by AngelList. Every week, we curate the tweets, podcasts, and articles every founder should check out. Let’s get into it…
Reading list
1/ Waseem Daher, CEO of Pilot, shares a story about a time they lost a ‘slam-dunk’ sale and the lessons we can all take away from it. Read here.
2/ Lenny Rachitsky and Yuriy Timen, dig into activation rate benchmarks, milestones, and tactics to improve them. Keep this one handy. Read here.
3/ Ivy Liu breaks down the importance of establishing an ‘Ideal Customer Profile’ (ICP) and how to define it using data science. TLDR; Focus on (and find) your most valuable customers. Read here.
4/ Casey Winters masterfully distills ways to address product complexity as your company grows and evolves. Read here.
5/ Kleiner Perkins published ‘People Report 2022’ where they curate trends, data, perspectives, and best practices to help startups navigate the current environment. If you have employees or plan to hire, take a look. Read here.
Thread of insight
Peak behind the curtain at venture math
Listen and learn
Category creation and brand building
Laugh Track
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