Week 5 - "Value Add"
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Week 5 - "Value Add"
This week's articles, tweets, and podcasts every founder should check out.
✌🏽Welcome back to Inside Round
Welcome to the fifth 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/ Whether for hiring or customer acquisition, most startup founders need to cold email at some point. Vivek Nanda shares his takeaways on how to cold email successfully. Read here.
2/ Growth on your mind? Dee Sahni, VP of Product at Figment, shares A 4-Step Pricing Framework to Build Products With Scalable Unit Economics. Read here.
3/ Set a SuperGoal for your company. Michael Migano, partner at Lightspeed, shares his framework for turning your company around fast. Read here.
4/ Seema Amble and Jennifer Li, partners at A16z, break down their framework for finding design partners, the first few users that help you build your product. Read here.
5/ Tomasz Tunguz, partner at Redpoint, breaks down Figma’s 50x ARR multiple and what it means for startup fundraising. Read here.
6/ Packy McCormick, is back and dropped an inspiring treatise on why we need to work harder AND smarter. Take some time to read this one. Read here.
Thread of insight
On Deck co-founder, Julian Weisser, outlines how to build momentum during a fundraise. Don’t miss these lessons.
Listen and learn
Tim and Roelof Botha, partner at Sequoia, talk entrepreneurship, working on the right problems, building enduring companies, an so much more.
Laugh track
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