Product ClassPass’ Founder on How Marketplace Startups Can Achieve Product-Market Fit It's rarely a straight line to product/market fit. Here are ClassPass founder Payal Kadakia's hard-won tips for marketplace startups that helped her guide her company from a near-bust to a $470M game-changer.
Management Our 6 Must Reads if You’re at a Startup With 30+ People Startups are always evolving, but something transforms them between 30-50 employees. Here's what the Review's experts have to say about navigating that particular inflection point more smoothly.
Management Pivot Survival Tactics from Kabam's 3 Near-Death Triumphs Kabam executed three tough about-faces to eventually sell for $800M. CEO Kevin Chou shares the keys that made this possible.
Starting Up PlanGrid's Playbook for Startups to Crack Big, Established Industries PlanGrid is changing the way the construction industry has operated for years. CEO Tracy Young describes the scrappy strategy that made them a catalyst.
Fundraising The Fundraising Wisdom That Helped Our Founders Raise $18B in Follow-On Capital Two years ago, First Round launched its Pitch Assist program to help founders raise follow-on capital. Here are the most important fundraising lessons we share.
Product 'Get in the Van' and Other Tips for Getting Meaningful Customer Feedback Michael Sippey has been building tech products for over 20 years. His most valuable ideas, though? They came from speaking with customers. Here's how.
Fundraising AppNexus' First Pitch — Before It Steered Around the Cloud to Win Big in AdTech AppNexus opens the vault and shares its very first seed funding pitch deck, created before its impressive pivot.
Product From 0 to $1B - Slack's Founder Shares Their Epic Launch Strategy “HELL YEAH WE'RE USING @SlackHQ AT WORK I. LOVE. SLACK.”
Management There’s a .00006% Chance of Building a Billion Dollar Company: How This Man Did It David Friedberg, CEO of The Climate Corporation, tells the story of how they built a valuable company from scratch.
Management Drew Houston’s Morph from Hacker to Hyper-Growth CEO Dropbox Founder and CEO Drew Houston turned a great piece of software into a massive business. Here's how he got there.
Starting Up 90% of Feedback is Crap: How to Find the Next Big Startup Idea Flatiron Health Co-founder Nat Turner on the process he uses to distill, pitch and iterate on new ideas.
Starting Up Why This Entrepreneur Left McKinsey to Get a Job Flipping Burgers Ayr Muir of Clover, a new type of restaurant chain, explains why it's so important to investigate every part of your business.
