Archive of posts with category 'startup'
Notes: The Lean Startup
Notes on Eric Ries's The Lean Startup: validated learning, MVPs, Build-Measure-Learn, vanity vs cohort metrics, pivots, and sticky, viral and paid growth.
Notes: Venture Deals
Notes on Venture Deals by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson: option pools, liquidation preference, pay-to-play, anti-dilution, board control, and no-shop clauses.
Enterprise Sales
Layering enterprise sales onto PLG: features worth a premium, the $1M ARR rule of thumb, your first sales hire, 10-80-10 outbound, and when to discount.
Interviewing Adrien Treuille, Founder CEO of Streamlit
Streamlit's founder on the $800M Snowflake acquisition, OSS metrics, Apache 2 licensing, PLG vs sales, community contributions, and hiring leaders sooner.
Accounting Advice for Founders
Notes on a PwC partner's lecture: collect sales tax early, classify expenses so less is reported as overhead, run a 409A yearly, and guard against fraud.
Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship
IP law notes for founders: patents, copyright, trademarks, trade secrets, NDAs, California IP assignment rules, and open-source licenses from GPL to MIT.
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