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The best resources I found in 2022
Justin Gordon
December 22, 2022
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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:
- 30+ resources for funding your startup
- Black women investors to get on your cap table
- The best non-YC, Non-Techstars, non-500 Startups accelerators
- How to scale revenue when you’re stuck
- A marketplace for hiring professionally accomplished women
- 300+ female VCs to connect with
- How to handle option grants
- The 12 worst recruiting mistakes and how to avoid them
- Copywriting examples to learn from
- A fundraising announcement to emulate
- 60 ideas to boost your growth
- 340 incredible female startup thought leaders to follow on Twitter
- How today’s fastest growing B2B businesses found their first ten customers
- Marketing Playbooks from Demand Curve
- Pro tip for founders trying to raise capital
- How to reaccelerate to 100% yoy growth
- Ad copy swipe files for inspiration
- What causes a busted cap table
- How to build an antiracist company
- Zapier’s story of growing from 0 to 600,000+ users
- The legal aspects of startups
- A VC exit model for founders and VCs
- Defining your culture as a founder
- Building a great brand for your startup
- A little inspiration from YC’s Black-founded companies
- How to get real feedback as a founder
- Coping with stress as a founder
- How to come up with a great business idea
- Navigating prioritization and trade-offs
- A VC contact list by Areeb Pasha
- The State of Black Venture Report by BLCK VC
- A simple tool for easily creating landing pages like ours
- Black angel investors and VCs that invest in early-stage Web3
- A financial model template to track your venture investments
- A thread of investors to reach out to on Twitter
- Notion resources for founders who love Notion as much as I do
- The best business books
- What LPs look for when investing in VCs
- The best predictors of startup success
- A community of current and future founders who are exploring or building their next big thing
- The startup-investor matching tool
- The best hiring resources from Twitter
- Perspective on blocking and tackling
- How to operate at peak performance
- Measuring what really matters at a startup
- Company building cornerstones
- Hiring and recruiting great employees
- Common errors startups should avoid
- First Round’s Angel Investor Directory
- A tool for connecting with journalists
- An easy way to build websites from Airtable
- The best resources for founders
- 8 time-consuming tasks you can automate
- Lessons from building a software company with $8 million in sales
- How to build a global HR strategy
- How to hire a marketer
- A reminder about who you’re selling to
- How to make smart decisions without getting lucky
- Marketing channels: explained in 10 minutes
- How to leverage community-led growth like Notion
- A tool for creating code-free automations and data extraction
- A platform to search, engage and convert over 220 million contacts at over 30 million companies
- A platform for brand marketers to manage and scale influence campaigns
- Tips and resources for startups & founders
- Thoughts on startup boards at the seed stage
- Normal salary ranges for seed stage founders
- A playbook for getting on 100+ podcasts in 6 months
- Product Hunt’s tech stack
- Tips for improving your SEO
- A platform for writing content 3X faster
- How to craft a tagline for your business
- A quick tweet on promoting employees
- 23 tactical company building lessons
- Startup = Growth
- How to Hire for a Startup
- The 6 Decision-Making Frameworks That Help Startup Leaders Tackle Tough Calls
- How to work hard
- How to find your co-founders and early employees
- A free platform for finding a co-founder
- Questions to ask in customer discovery calls
- A marketplace for hiring vetted fractional executives
- A platform for finding startup incubators, accelerators, and investors
- Metrics that matter most in early-stage startups
- The new START program from a16z
- Alternative funding options for founders
- A platform for finding angel investors
- THE list of VC lists
- A tool for B2B prospecting
- 7 different growth loops to implement
- The complete guide to content optimization
- Getting to $300k in monthly revenue with zero paid ads
- Managing Your Mental Health While Running a Startup
- Lessons on resiliency from a repeat founder
- 13 Metrics for Marketplace Companies
- An explanation of bookings vs. revenue
- How to know if you’ve got product-market fit
- The best marketing newsletters
- A tool for finding out what your photos say about you
- A crowdsourced collection of unscalable startup hacks and stories
- A tactical guide to working with executive assistants
- A tool for compensation benchmarking
- Los Angeles founders and investors to connect with
- How to create eye-catching PowerPoint presentations
- How to find an executive coach
- The best banks for fast-growing startups
- Everything to know about SEO
- What to understand about seed valuations
- Growing to $100M in revenue w/o VC funding
- A huge directory of startup tools and resources
- A guide to growth rates
- A tool for powering your fundraise
- An app for founders to get more out of their investors and advisors
- 250+ of the best agencies & freelancers in product design, marketing, community, and branding (Password: startupy)
- A platform for advertising in premium email newsletter
- A startup CEO salary report
- A database for VC outreach
- A collection of pitch deck templates
- 12 insights on product-market fit
- How to get to #1 on Product Hunt
- 8 Lessons from a Failed Startup
- A tool for selling using incremental pricing
- 300+ Resources From the YC Library for Startups
- A library of Zapier automation experts
- The 2021 Pilot Founder Salary Report
- A platform for hiring unicorn devs
- A guide to finance for founders
- A next-generation influencer marketing platform
- Case studies of successful founders
- A thread on upgrading your self-limiting belief systems
- McKinsey’s 7-step problem-solving framework
- A Twitter AMA on Audience Research
- A fun Twitter AMA from Shaan Puri
- A platform to visualize data from any source without SQL
- A platform for hiring military spouses as personal assistants
- A story on the value of positioning
- 9 Essentials of Raising VC Money
- Sketch notes from ConvertKit’s Craft + Commerce creator conference
- 30 resources to help you find and attract amazing talent
- The path to $1.5M ARR in 3 years
- A tool for how to split startup equity
- The FAST agreement for working with advisors
- An ode to cold outreach
- A platform for saving on SaaS subscriptions
- A catalyst for outlier founders
- A platform for improving your company culture
- How to Get 2k+ website visitors per day via Google
- Why SAFEs may no longer be standard for early-stage raises
- How 50 of today's biggest consumer companies came up with their startup idea
- The real value of the best investors
- Mistakes from 25 seed investments
- How to close the credibility gap with prospects
- 12 different GTM motions for 100 Unicorns
- A blazing fast website builder
- An essay on crazy new ideas
- 5 Sales Strategies To Weather The Market Downturn
- The pillars of building a marketing team
- 1 great automated email sequence
- An equity-free accelerator for Black and Latino entrepreneurs
- The biggest preventable cause of startup failure
- Financial metrics that matter
- Critical Startup Skills You Might Be Overlooking
- Challenges and opportunities of B2B marketplaces
- The goldmine of Google Chrome extensions
- How Shopify grew so big in a decade
- The B2B SaaS funding napkin
- A great hiring example
- A valuation matrix
- Why execution is exponential
- Valuing early-stage companies
- Questions to ask after hitting PMF
- The ultimate marketing strategy thread
- Product Fundamentals for Go-To-Market
- How to kickstart and scale a consumer business
- When to Expand Your Marketplace Business, According to 14 Operators
- How to build a growth engine for consumer companies
- Fundraising wisdom from First Round founders
- The marketing behind an 8-figure newsletter
- Learnings of a CEO: Wade Foster, Zapier
- What YC looks for in applicants
- A useful CMS for Notion
- 12 systems for building multi-million dollar businesses
- Weird SaaS pricing models
- 5 ways Loom wows new users
- A guide to PLG timing
- The keys to success for USV
- Questions to ask on a reference call
- How to avoid one source of fatigue
- How to get a response to your cold DM or email
- 3 things to look for when hiring a PR agency
- Lessons from 80+ angel investments
- 15 Paul Graham essays to help you build a unicorn
- When to hire an executive assistant
- Insights on creating a financial model for your startup
- Bessemer’s five laws for community-led growth
- How long it took founders to build their MVP
- A useful tool for your next Zoom call
- A 4-Step Pricing Framework to Build Products With Scalable Unit Economics
- Everything to know about growth hacking
- 1000+ Growth Hacks for SaaS Startups
- The Racecar Growth Framework
- A platform for finding and hiring the right people, faster
- How to uplevel your founder-VC relationship
- Ten lessons from a decade of vertical software investing
- A few resources for creating your pitch deck
- How founders should vet investors
- How to sell $150K in 1 call
- A guide to influencer marketing
- A platform for hiring virtual sales staff
- A tool for getting more editorial coverage
- A new fundraising platform for founders
- How founders came up with their startup ideas
- Ideas for treating your team when you have leftover budget
- Event management and reservation platforms
- What to avoid when building highly technical products
- The hiring process developed from hiring 60+ CEOs
- A report on founder salaries
- A search engine for email newsletters
- A guide to PR for startups
- How to build a thriving tech ecosystem
- Do things that don’t scale
- How to use your secret weapon: an EA
- 6 habits from 233 millionaire interviews
- Lessons from a doggy daycare business with 185 locations
- Questions angel investors should ask themselves when assessing a deal
- Tactical advice for founders facing tough company building decisions
- Raising venture capital through cold emails
- Best examples of "moats" in startups
- 35 impactful questions managers should ask themselves regularly
- Actionable tips for breaking into VC
- The journey to 250K newsletter subscribers
- Future of Work founders, investors, and operators to follow
- All about market sizing
- Current market benchmarks for SaaS or b2b fintech founders
- The power of SuperGoals
- 26 questions with the best answers & advice from VCs, angels, founders, and operators
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Best,
Justin