235 Resources for Founders & Investors

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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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Justin