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Startups and founders
177 links saved from 2007 to 2026; 173 with a note, 106 in a Weekly Thing.
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2026
2025
2024
2023
- The Root of Over-Meeting Culture - Anne Helen Petersen
- Lessons from going freemium: a decision that broke our business
- 10 Challenges to Building a Customer Obsessed Organization
- You’re barely managing
- Managers and Productivity in Retail
- Founder & CEO is kinda a BS title
- Ask Teresa: What’s the Difference Between OKRs and Outcomes?
- Stop saying “technical debt”
- What Shape are You?
- We invested 10% to pay back tech debt; Here's what happened
- The Strategic Approach to Building a Board
2022
- Focus Is Saying No To Good Ideas
- The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business)
- Your CTO Should Actually Be Technical
- Silicon Valley’s Horrible Bosses
- A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you
- How To Do Less
- That Wild Ask A Manager Story
- Tips On Prioritizing Tech Debt In A Healthy Way
- Scaling with Process vs. People
- I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months.
2021
2020
- The Observer Effect – Tobi Lütke
- The Hustle Is Dead to Me
- How Venture Capitalists Are Deforming Capitalism
- Product Leadership Is Hard
- Study: Focus will shape the future of distributed work
- How to Spot Toxic Software Jobs From Their Descriptions | by Michael Vinh Xuan Thanh | The Startup
- How to Choose Software Development KPIs for Your Board Deck
- Trapped in a Values Oasis.
- What do executives do, anyway?
- It’s Time To Learn
- How Jeff Bezos Turned Narrative into Amazon's Competitive Advantage - Write Louder - Knock Down Silos
- The unspoken truth about managing geeks
- Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do?
- Sexism: Just Another Day as a Woman In Tech
- Why Americans Are Always Running Out of Time
- Leadership Derailers: Anger
2019
- Book Review: Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell
- “You Don’t Bring Bad News to the Cult Leader”: Inside the Fall of WeWork
- How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables
- Why Tech’s Approach to Fixing Its Gender Inequality Isn’t Working
- Where we do and don’t want automation
- I've Built Multiple Growth Teams. Here's Why I Won't Do It Again. | CXL
- Sharing the Data: How Technical Women Navigate Their Career | Developer Resources
- For Young Female Coders, Internship Interviews Can Be Toxic
- Ethical Principles, OKRs, and KPIs: what YouTube and Facebook could learn from Tukey | Data Science Institute
- The Mystery of the Miserable Employees: How to Win in the Winner-Take-All Economy
- Looking for a Job? America’s Listings Are Inscrutable
- The Empty Promise of Data Moats
- Strong Opinions Loosely Held Might be the Worst Idea in Tech - The Glowforge Blog
- Disrupting the Tech Profession’s Gender Gap
- My Billion Dollar Mistake
- The one-salary experiment, ten years in
- Don’t solve the problem.
- Meritocracy doesn't exist, and believing it does is bad for you
- The MBA Myth and the Cult of the CEO
- Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
- Talking sense about acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, and neologisms
2018
- Antifragile
- Pivot or Fail?
- Steve Blank How to Keep Your Job As Your Company Grows
- Don't Be Evil
- Steve Blank Is the Lean Startup Dead?
- Techie to tech lead: My five biggest mistakes
- Antifragility is a Fragile Concept
- Is It Okay to Say “Hey Guys”?
- Six Months at Riot Games | Things I Like.
- “Lean In” Messages and the Illusion of Control
- Scaling Agile FAQ
- Survivorship Bias and Startup Hype
- Performance Reviews Are a Waste of Time
- The Subtle Sexism Of Your Open Plan Office
- Stack Overflow Isn't Very Welcoming. It's Time for That to Change.
- Why Are There Few Women in Tech? Watch a Recruiting Session
2017
- Let’s bury the hustle
- Brilliant Jerks in Engineering
- Move Slowly and Fix Things
- I haven't experienced imposter syndrome, and maybe you haven't either
- Software architecture is failing
- What Sephora Knows About Women in Tech That Silicon Valley Doesn’t
- You Might Be Evil —Tim Bray
- Second-Hand Misogyny
- Why Management Needs Philosophers
- danah boyd | apophenia » Tech Culture Can Change
- Coraline Ada Ehmke: Antisocial Coding: My Year at GitHub
- Women in Tech Speak Frankly on Culture of Harassment
- Why So Few Women Break Through Tech's Bro Culture
- Options vs. cash
- Dual Track Development is not Duel Track - Jeff Patton
- Exponential growth devours and corrupts
- What does sponsorship look like?
- LeanEssays: The End of Enterprise IT
2016
- Protecting the “Bro-Club”: Sacrificing Women, Keeping the Bullies at Tech Companies by Anonymous Author
- Why Lean Enterprise Transformation is Hard – ThoughtWorks Featured Insights
- SaaS Companies Beware The Slow Ramp of Death
- The Six Sins of Mergers and Acquisitions
- A Methodology for Retiring Products
- Making sense of MVP (Minimum Viable Product)
- We Hire the Best, Just Like Everyone Else
- The Unfinished Business of Organizational Transformation
2015
- ongoing by Tim Bray · Mobile Counter-theses
- Margaret Heffernan: Why it's time to forget the pecking order at work | TED Talk
- Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?
- If you think women in tech is just a pipeline problem, you haven’t been paying attention
- Anatomy of a VC "seed program" (and you)
- Why I left being CTO of The New York Times, joined a startup, and am pledging 20% of my equity to charity
- Let Me Google That for You
- Be Kind
- kadavy.net | A/A Testing: How I increased conversions 300% by doing absolutely nothing
- What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 years.
- No. Agile Does Not Scale.
2014
- Build a change platform, not a change program
- Navigating Conferences as an Unusual Attendee
- Etsy’s Trying to Fix Tech’s Women Problem. Why Aren’t You?
- Four Interactions That Could Have Gone Better
- It's not a promotion - it's a career change
- I Must Have the Breakfast Octopus: How Jeff Bezos Does Business - Corporate Intelligence
2013
2012
- Im Not The Product, But I Play One On The Internet
- Why You Shouldnt Build A Business On An API Call
- A primer on sexism in the tech industry
- The Hustler's MBA
- Why Valve? Or, what do we need corporations for and how does Valves management structure fit into todays corporate world?
- Max Levchin in Technology Review
- ASUS' 'Rear' Tweet Puts Sexism Front And Center
- How to Stop Sucking and Be Awesome Instead
- In war for talent, 'brogrammers' will be losers
- Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
- Paths to $5M for a startup founder
- I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave
- Why Entrepreneurs Should Not Buy Homes
- Five tough lessons I had to learn about health care
- The Startup Curve
- The Midwest Mentality