What should I read?
This is a frequent question I get from folks who want to move to the world of startups/product management.
List of my favourite people, blogs, newsletters and podcasts:
(People)
1/ Elad Gil. http://blog.eladgil.com/
fav: How To Win As Second Mover
2/ Jeol Spolsky. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/
fav: Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry’s vs. Amazon
3/ Ben Thompson. https://stratechery.com
fav: Google, Uber, and the Evolution of Transportation-as-a-Service
4/ Andrew Chen. https://andrewchen.co/
fav: The Power User Curve: The best way to understand your most engaged users
5/ Avichal Garg. https://avichal.com/
fav: Focus on building 10x teams, not on hiring 10x developers
6/ Michael Lopp. http://randsinrepose.com/
fav: Shields Down
7/ Marc Andreessen. https://pmarchive.com
fav: Part 1: Why not to do a startup
8/ Chamath. http://chamatharchive.com/
fav: Long term greedy
9/ Julie Zhuo. https://medium.com/the-year-of-the-looking-glass/
fav: 5 Hard Questions to Ask Yourself During a Conflict
10/ Benedict Evans. https://www.ben-evans.com/
fav: Tesla, software and disruption
11/ Steven Sinofsky. https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/
fav: Reaching Peak Meeting Efficiency
12/ Tomasz Tunguz. http://tomtunguz.com/
fav: Lessons Learned from 20 Years at the Leading Edge of SaaS
13/ Steve Blank. https://steveblank.com/
fav: “Speed and Tempo” — Fearless Decision Making for Startups
14/ Derek Sivers. https://sivers.org/
15/ John Saito. https://medium.com/@jsaito
fav: Making up metaphors
16/ Fred Wilson. https://avc.com/
fav: Let Your Winners Run
17/ Mark Suster. https://bothsidesofthetable.com/
fav: Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders?
18/ Seth Godin. https://www.sethgodin.com/
fav: The wrong bus
19/ Bill Gurley. http://abovethecrowd.com/
fav: The Dangerous Seduction of the Lifetime Value (LTV) Formula
20/ Michael Lopp. http://randsinrepose.com/about/
fav: The Rands Test
(Blogs)
1/ Signal v. Noise
fav: The curse of the last word
2/ Intercom
fav: When a cupcake becomes a wedding cake
3/ First Round
fav: Speed as a Habit
4/ GV Library
fav: GV Guide to Design Critique
5/ HBR
fav: Your Strategic Plans Probably Aren’t Strategic, or Even Plans
6/ Facebook Design
fav: Evolving the Facebook News Feed to Serve You Better
7/ Go-Jek Engineering
fav: Introducing GO-JEK’s card personalization engine: Project shuffle
8/ Netflix Tech Blog
fav: It’s All A/Bout Testing: The Netflix Experimentation Platform
9/ Slack Design
fav: Threads in Slack, a long design journey
10/ Airbnb Design
fav: Building a Visual Language
11/ YC
fav: How Do You Measure Leadership?
12/ a16z
fav: The ‘Oh, Shit!’ Moment When Growth Stops
(Newsletters)
1/ CBInsights
2/ Reforge
3/ Axios (Pro Rata and Login)
4/ Fortune Data Sheet
5/ The Ken
6/ Howard Lindzon
7/ Fortune Term Sheet
8/ Snippets by Social Capital
9/ Data Elixir
10/ Oversharing
11/ Prioritised by Mind the Product
12/ PMHQ Weekly Product Reads
(Podcasts)
1/ The Twenty Minute VC
fav: http://www.thetwentyminutevc.com/alirowghani/
2/ Origins by Notation Capital
fav: https://soundcloud.com/notation-capital/origins-episode-13-notation-capital-and-hunter-walk-homebrew
3/ The Knowledge Project
fav: https://fs.blog/2018/05/patrick-collison/
4/ Recode Decode
5/ The Tim Ferris Show
fav: https://tim.blog/2018/08/27/drew-houston/
6/ The Kevin Rose Show
fav: https://www.kevinrose.com/single-post/billmaris