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Net Income

By Andrew Lynch

Breakdowns of amazing companies and the stories behind them (as featured in My First Million).

Dan Hock's Essays

By Dan Hockenmaier

The strategy and tactics of scaling consumer technology businesses. Less frequent, more rigorous essays.

Simply the best resource on marketplace dynamics.

- CJ Gustafson

The Product-Led Geek

By Ben Williams (The Product-Led Geek)

Step into a world of Product-Led Geekiness! Expect product and growth frameworks, colour commentary, mental models, hot takes and tales from a 20+ year product career - all delivered with candour and an occasional splash of British humour.

Product Led Growth from the lens of a master practitioner, served with a British accent.

- CJ Gustafson

Growth Croissant

By Reid

A guidebook to growing consumer subscription businesses.

Reid shares THE playbook for scaling consumer subscription businesses. It’s a blend of insights related to metrics and actionable tactics to go up and to the right.

- CJ Gustafson

Random Thoughts by The Random Recruiter

Detailed thoughts on Recruiting, Hiring, Job Search, & Careers. Reverse-engineering the recruiting process to show you how to land your next job.

Insights on the hiring game by one of the best. I don't usually trust recruiters (lol), but I trust this one.

- CJ Gustafson

Focused Chaos

By Ben Yoskovitz

A weekly newsletter on navigating the chaos of building & investing in startups. Topics include fundraising, building products, analytics and more, leveraging a combination of best practices & instincts.

Ben is a startup renaissance man. I have him on speed dial for all founder questions.

- CJ Gustafson

OnlyCFO's Newsletter

Software and Finance

Benchmarking and hyper growth SaaS insights

- CJ Gustafson

Stat Significant

By Daniel Parris

Data-centric essays about pop culture, sports, economics, and more.

Leah’s ProducTea

By ProducTea with Leah

Product-led growth and scaleup advice from 2 decades in tech. Over 50'000 readers on my product-led growth guide & lots of ears on my podcast. Actionable advice without the BS and countless guides to get you productive.

Data-driven VC

By Andre Retterath

Where venture capital and data intersect. Every week. Join 15,700+ thought leaders from VCs like a16z, Accel, Index, Sequoia, and more.

Andre has a super power when it comes to harnessing insights from data. Learn from a big data ninja.

- CJ Gustafson

How They Grow

By Jaryd

In-depth analyses on the growth of world-class companies, unpacking their early strategies, current tactics, and the product-building lessons we can learn from them.

The Product Compass with Paweł

By Paweł Huryn

Actionable tips and resources for Product Managers. Every Saturday.

Everything you need to know about building great products and amazing product teams.

- CJ Gustafson

Verticalized

By Eli

breaking down the vertical SaaS revolution

Stock Market Nerd

By Brad Freeman

Specific news and analysis on individual public companies.

I don't know much about the public markets, but what I do know, I got from here. High signal, low noise.

- CJ Gustafson

Next Big Teng

By Janelle Teng

VC @ Bessemer; data-driven reflections on startups, cloud trends, and growth-stage investing

Kyle Poyar’s Growth Unhinged

Revealing the playbooks and hidden tactics behind today's best startups. Join 35,000+ weekly readers for real-life growth advice, playbooks, and case studies.

Probably the best resource out there on the art and the science of product led growth

- CJ Gustafson

Software Snack Bites

By Shomik Ghosh

Bite size weekly posts & longer form podcasts on Enterprise Software trends I'm thinking and practitioners in the field are thinking about

Early stage tech investing insights from Shomik, a partner at Boldstart

- CJ Gustafson

The Software Analyst Newsletter

By Francis (Software Analyst)

Simplifying the analysis of software companies. Mostly within Cybersecurity, Data infra, and AI/ML.

Investing 101

By Kyle Harrison

Learning in Public: Investing

Kyle is an experienced venture capitalist and amazing story teller. Take a peek into his world of investing.

- CJ Gustafson

Clouded Judgement

By Jamin Ball

Weekly data driven analysis of SaaS companies

Every entrepreneur should keep a pulse on market multiples. As a metrics fan, this is consistently my most forwarded newsletter.

- CJ Gustafson

The Transcript

Weekly Quotes from Earnings Calls

There's a wealth of knowledge in company earnings releases; The Transcript does the hard work for you, so you can make informed decisions on where the world is going.

- CJ Gustafson

The Split

By Turner Novak

Stay on top of the latest tech and startup stories.

This is where I go to laugh and to get smarter on consumer internet investing.

- CJ Gustafson

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC

By Ed Sim

Ed Sim's (@boldstartvc) weekly readings and notes on enterprise VC, software, and scaling startups