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Recommended by CJ Gustafson

"The VC Corner" equips investors and entrepreneurs with crucial insights and updates, aiding in strategic decision-making within the dynamic startup landscape

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

Focused Chaos

By Ben Yoskovitz

A weekly newsletter on navigating the chaos of building & investing in startups. Topics include venture studios, entrepreneurship, product management, 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

Weekly newsletter on software industry metrics, finance, strategy and operations. What you need to know to be a successful leader.

Benchmarking and hyper growth SaaS insights

- CJ Gustafson

Stat Significant

By Daniel Parris

Data-centric essays about movies, music, TV, and more.

Data-driven VC

By Andre Retterath

Where venture capital and data intersect. Every week. Join 21,900+ 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

Deep dives on the growth of world-class companies, unpacking their early strategies, current playbooks, and the product-building lessons we can learn from them.

The Product Compass

By Paweł

Actionable insights and resources for Product Managers. Every Saturday.

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

- CJ Gustafson

Lessons

By Molly G.

Things I've learned from years inside startups and scaling companies.

Product Market Fit

By Guillermo Flor

Hey there! I'm Guillermo, a VC investor & former startup founder and on Product Market Fit, I share with you what you need to grow and fund your startup. Here you'll get to learn about growth strategies, metrics, fundraising, tools and personal growth.

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, enterprise software trends, and venture investing

Kyle Poyar’s Growth Unhinged

Revealing the playbooks and hidden tactics behind today's best startups. Join 45,000+ 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)

A newsletter focused on the analysis of software companies within cybersecurity and data infrastructure (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

Data Analysis Journal

By Olga

Where product, data science, and analytics intersect. Trusted by tens of thousands of data scientists around the world

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

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

Mostly metrics

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