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Remember when I told you in the first edition that this newsletter was an experiment?

Of course you do, it was only 10 days ago.

Well, in the spirit of experiments, this edition is a bit different. 

Today I'm sharing some of the best online resources I found in 2022 - tweets, articles, websites, databases, and more. 

Let's do it, shall we?

The best online resources I found in 2022:

  1. 30+ resources for funding your startup

  2. Black women investors to get on your cap table

  3. The best non-YC, Non-Techstars, non-500 Startups accelerators

  4. How to scale revenue when you’re stuck

  5. A marketplace for hiring professionally accomplished women

  6. 300+ female VCs to connect with

  7. How to handle option grants

  8. The 12 worst recruiting mistakes and how to avoid them

  9. Copywriting examples to learn from

  10. A fundraising announcement to emulate

  11. 60 ideas to boost your growth

  12. 340 incredible female startup thought leaders to follow on Twitter

  13. How today’s fastest growing B2B businesses found their first ten customers

  14. Marketing Playbooks from Demand Curve

  15. Pro tip for founders trying to raise capital

  16. How to reaccelerate to 100% yoy growth

  17. Ad copy swipe files for inspiration

  18. What causes a busted cap table

  19. How to build an antiracist company

  20. Zapier’s story of growing from 0 to 600,000+ users

  21. The legal aspects of startups

  22. A VC exit model for founders and VCs

  23. Defining your culture as a founder

  24. Building a great brand for your startup

  25. A little inspiration from YC’s Black-founded companies

  26. How to get real feedback as a founder

  27. Coping with stress as a founder

  28. How to come up with a great business idea

  29. Navigating prioritization and trade-offs

  30. A VC contact list by Areeb Pasha

  31. The State of Black Venture Report by BLCK VC

  32. A simple tool for easily creating landing pages like ours

  33. Black angel investors and VCs that invest in early-stage Web3

  34. A financial model template to track your venture investments

  35. A thread of investors to reach out to on Twitter

  36. Notion resources for founders who love Notion as much as I do

  37. The best business books

  38. What LPs look for when investing in VCs

  39. The best predictors of startup success

  40. A community of current and future founders who are exploring or building their next big thing

  41. The startup-investor matching tool

  42. The best hiring resources from Twitter

  43. Perspective on blocking and tackling

  44. How to operate at peak performance

  45. Measuring what really matters at a startup

  46. Company building cornerstones

  47. Hiring and recruiting great employees

  48. Common errors startups should avoid

  49. First Round’s Angel Investor Directory

  50. A tool for connecting with journalists

  51. An easy way to build websites from Airtable

  52. The best resources for founders

  53. 8 time-consuming tasks you can automate

  54. Lessons from building a software company with $8 million in sales

  55. How to build a global HR strategy

  56. How to hire a marketer

  57. A reminder about who you’re selling to

  58. How to make smart decisions without getting lucky

  59. Marketing channels: explained in 10 minutes

  60. How to leverage community-led growth like Notion

  61. A tool for creating code-free automations and data extraction

  62. A platform to search, engage and convert over 220 million contacts at over 30 million companies

  63. A platform for brand marketers to manage and scale influence campaigns

  64. Tips and resources for startups & founders

  65. Thoughts on startup boards at the seed stage

  66. Normal salary ranges for seed stage founders

  67. A playbook for getting on 100+ podcasts in 6 months

  68. Product Hunt’s tech stack

  69. Tips for improving your SEO

  70. A platform for writing content 3X faster

  71. How to craft a tagline for your business

  72. A quick tweet on promoting employees

  73. 23 tactical company building lessons

  74. Startup = Growth

  75. How to Hire for a Startup

  76. The 6 Decision-Making Frameworks That Help Startup Leaders Tackle Tough Calls

  77. How to work hard

  78. How to find your co-founders and early employees

  79. A free platform for finding a co-founder

  80. Questions to ask in customer discovery calls

  81. A marketplace for hiring vetted fractional executives

  82. A platform for finding startup incubators, accelerators, and investors

  83. Metrics that matter most in early-stage startups

  84. The new START program from a16z

  85. Alternative funding options for founders

  86. A platform for finding angel investors

  87. THE list of VC lists

  88. A tool for B2B prospecting

  89. 7 different growth loops to implement

  90. The complete guide to content optimization

  91. Getting to $300k in monthly revenue with zero paid ads

  92. Managing Your Mental Health While Running a Startup

  93. Lessons on resiliency from a repeat founder

  94. 13 Metrics for Marketplace Companies

  95. An explanation of bookings vs. revenue

  96. How to know if you’ve got product-market fit

  97. The best marketing newsletters

  98. A tool for finding out what your photos say about you

  99. A crowdsourced collection of unscalable startup hacks and stories

  100. A tactical guide to working with executive assistants

  101. A tool for compensation benchmarking

  102. Los Angeles founders and investors to connect with

  103. How to create eye-catching PowerPoint presentations

  104. How to find an executive coach

  105. The best banks for fast-growing startups

  106. Everything to know about SEO

  107. What to understand about seed valuations

  108. Growing to $100M in revenue w/o VC funding

  109. A huge directory of startup tools and resources

  110. A guide to growth rates

  111. A tool for powering your fundraise

  112. An app for founders to get more out of their investors and advisors

  113. 250+ of the best agencies & freelancers in product design, marketing, community, and branding (Password: startupy)

  114. A platform for advertising in premium email newsletter

  115. A startup CEO salary report

  116. A database for VC outreach

  117. A collection of pitch deck templates

  118. 12 insights on product-market fit

  119. How to get to #1 on Product Hunt

  120. 8 Lessons from a Failed Startup

  121. A tool for selling using incremental pricing

  122. 300+ Resources From the YC Library for Startups

  123. A library of Zapier automation experts

  124. The 2021 Pilot Founder Salary Report

  125. A platform for hiring unicorn devs

  126. A guide to finance for founders

  127. A next-generation influencer marketing platform

  128. Case studies of successful founders

  129. A thread on upgrading your self-limiting belief systems

  130. McKinsey’s 7-step problem-solving framework

  131. A Twitter AMA on Audience Research

  132. A fun Twitter AMA from Shaan Puri

  133. A platform to visualize data from any source without SQL

  134. A platform for hiring military spouses as personal assistants

  135. A story on the value of positioning

  136. 9 Essentials of Raising VC Money

  137. Sketch notes from ConvertKit’s Craft + Commerce creator conference

  138. 30 resources to help you find and attract amazing talent

  139. The path to $1.5M ARR in 3 years

  140. A tool for how to split startup equity

  141. The FAST agreement for working with advisors

  142. An ode to cold outreach

  143. A platform for saving on SaaS subscriptions

  144. A catalyst for outlier founders

  145. A platform for improving your company culture

  146. How to Get 2k+ website visitors per day via Google

  147. Why SAFEs may no longer be standard for early-stage raises

  148. How 50 of today's biggest consumer companies came up with their startup idea

  149. The real value of the best investors

  150. Mistakes from 25 seed investments

  151. How to close the credibility gap with prospects

  152. 12 different GTM motions for 100 Unicorns

  153. A blazing fast website builder

  154. An essay on crazy new ideas

  155. 5 Sales Strategies To Weather The Market Downturn

  156. The pillars of building a marketing team

  157. 1 great automated email sequence

  158. An equity-free accelerator for Black and Latino entrepreneurs

  159. The biggest preventable cause of startup failure

  160. Financial metrics that matter

  161. Critical Startup Skills You Might Be Overlooking

  162. Challenges and opportunities of B2B marketplaces

  163. The goldmine of Google Chrome extensions

  164. How Shopify grew so big in a decade

  165. The B2B SaaS funding napkin

  166. A great hiring example

  167. A valuation matrix

  168. Why execution is exponential

  169. Valuing early-stage companies

  170. Questions to ask after hitting PMF

  171. The ultimate marketing strategy thread

  172. Product Fundamentals for Go-To-Market

  173. How to kickstart and scale a consumer business

  174. When to Expand Your Marketplace Business, According to 14 Operators

  175. How to build a growth engine for consumer companies

  176. Fundraising wisdom from First Round founders

  177. The marketing behind an 8-figure newsletter

  178. Learnings of a CEO: Wade Foster, Zapier

  179. What YC looks for in applicants

  180. A useful CMS for Notion

  181. 12 systems for building multi-million dollar businesses

  182. Weird SaaS pricing models

  183. 5 ways Loom wows new users

  184. A guide to PLG timing

  185. The keys to success for USV

  186. Questions to ask on a reference call

  187. How to avoid one source of fatigue

  188. How to get a response to your cold DM or email

  189. 3 things to look for when hiring a PR agency

  190. Lessons from 80+ angel investments

  191. 15 Paul Graham essays to help you build a unicorn

  192. When to hire an executive assistant

  193. Insights on creating a financial model for your startup

  194. Bessemer’s five laws for community-led growth

  195. How long it took founders to build their MVP

  196. A useful tool for your next Zoom call

  197. A 4-Step Pricing Framework to Build Products With Scalable Unit Economics

  198. Everything to know about growth hacking

  199. 1000+ Growth Hacks for SaaS Startups

  200. The Racecar Growth Framework

  201. A platform for finding and hiring the right people, faster

  202. How to uplevel your founder-VC relationship

  203. Ten lessons from a decade of vertical software investing

  204. A few resources for creating your pitch deck

  205. How founders should vet investors

  206. How to sell $150K in 1 call

  207. A guide to influencer marketing

  208. A platform for hiring virtual sales staff

  209. A tool for getting more editorial coverage

  210. A new fundraising platform for founders

  211. How founders came up with their startup ideas

  212. Ideas for treating your team when you have leftover budget

  213. Event management and reservation platforms

  214. What to avoid when building highly technical products

  215. The hiring process developed from hiring 60+ CEOs

  216. A report on founder salaries

  217. A search engine for email newsletters

  218. A guide to PR for startups

  219. How to build a thriving tech ecosystem

  220. Do things that don’t scale

  221. How to use your secret weapon: an EA

  222. 6 habits from 233 millionaire interviews

  223. Lessons from a doggy daycare business with 185 locations

  224. Questions angel investors should ask themselves when assessing a deal

  225. Tactical advice for founders facing tough company building decisions

  226. Raising venture capital through cold emails

  227. Best examples of "moats" in startups

  228. 35 impactful questions managers should ask themselves regularly

  229. Actionable tips for breaking into VC

  230. The journey to 250K newsletter subscribers

  231. Future of Work founders, investors, and operators to follow

  232. All about market sizing

  233. Current market benchmarks for SaaS or b2b fintech founders

  234. The power of SuperGoals

  235. 26 questions with the best answers & advice from VCs, angels, founders, and operators

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