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A weekly playbook for PE-backed executives focused on margin expansion, smart capital use, and building enterprise value.

The best playbooks for private equity executives scaling companies.

- CJ Gustafson

Shared Narratives

By Lilly Wyden

Stories, ideas, and perspectives that will make you think twice and then run to the group chat

Upstarts Media

By Alex Konrad

Startup news starts here. The Upstarts newsletter provides in-depth reporting and analysis on the startup ecosystem, from inception through IPO. Founded by veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad.

Young Money by Jack Raines

Jack Raines' essays on all things behavioral finance, markets, work, and life.

Limited Partner (LP) Investing Lessons

By Aleksey

I advise Limited Partners on existing and future investments. Here I share their hard earned lessons, so you don't have to learn them the hard way yourself.

Friday Forward

By Robert Glazer

Join 100,000+ leaders around the world who are passionate about getting a little better each week.

Dan Hock's Essays

By Dan Hockenmaier

The strategy and tactics of growing startups and growing your career. Less frequent, more rigorous essays.

Simply the best resource on marketplace dynamics.

- CJ Gustafson

Cook's PlayBooks

By Jim Cook

Sharing 3 decades of startup wisdom & “Best Of” lessons after scaling a few iconic Silicon Valley companies (Intuit,Netflix,Mozilla Firefox) from Series A- IPO; incl. frameworks & playbooks from my coaching practice; www.benchboard.com

Focused Chaos

By Ben Yoskovitz

A biweekly 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 Data Driven VC

Where venture capital and data intersect. Every week. Join 34,000+ 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

Learn how the greatest companies are winning, with actionable deep dives into their growth motions, strategic playbooks, products, and founding stories.

The Product Compass

By Paweł

The #1 AI and PM newsletter, packed with actionable tips, zero-to-one resources, and step-by-step playbooks.

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.

Take Rate | Marketplaces

By Colin Gardiner

Startup and Marketplace Musings for Operators by Operators

The Business Engineer

By Gennaro Cuofano

At the intersection of business strategy, technology, and non-linear analysis, The Business Engineer is the fruit of ten years of research into the business tech world by Gennaro Cuofano, creator of the leading business model strategy blog FourWeekMBA.

Kyle Poyar’s Growth Unhinged

Revealing the playbooks and hidden tactics behind today's best startups. Join 70,000+ 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 Analyst Cyber Research

By Francis (Software Analyst)

We deliver clear, concise, and in-depth analysis of the rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape—built for cyber leaders, operators, and investors.

Newcomer

Where technology and venture capital intersect: A deeply reported newsletter on the inner workings of the startup industry. Helmed by Eric Newcomer with writing from Madeline Renbarger.

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

Fintech Blueprint 🤖🏦🧭

By Lex Sokolin

Become a world-class financial services investor and operator, leveraging our deep research on Fintech, DeFi, and AI to improve your strategy and achieve success.

Where I go for my fintech deep dives

- CJ Gustafson

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