Week 3 - Passing Thoughts...
This week's articles, tweets, and podcasts every founder should check out.
✌🏽Welcome back to Inside Round
Welcome to the third 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/ Do VCs “backchannel” (talk with each other about your startup)? All the time! Hustle Fund’s Elizabeth Yin reveals all here.
2/ Small teams and short-term goals for the win! Jason Fried and Lauren Murrow cover the downsides of big teams, long-term planning, and politics. Read here.
3/ Looking for early traction? Lenny Rachitsky shares how to get your earliest adopters here.
4/ How do VCs like Talia Goldberg think about calculating startup valuations? TLDR: no one knows what’s going to happen, but there are a handful of probable scenarios that can be averaged together. Read here.
Thread of insight
Elizabeth Yin on why founders should angel invest (ahem…AngelList Syndicates is a good place to start).
Listen and learn
This week’s listen is for marketplace builders. Two-Sided is a show devoted to just that.
First up: Lessons from Casey Winters, one of the most knowledgable and experienced two-sided platform builders out there. Casey started at Apartments.com, helped Grubhub to IPO-ready, grew Pinterest to an enormous scale, and is now Chief Product Officer at Eventbrite.
Laugh track
Passing thoughts…