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First Round Review provides practical advice for founders and startup leaders, covering topics such as interview questions, new manager tips, and finding product-market fit.

April 3, 2025  14:01:48
Learn from Loyal founder Celine Halioua’s rigorous approach to milestone-based planning, fundraising and multi-product strategy for deep tech companies.
March 26, 2025  14:54:07
Sam Corcos, co-founder & CEO of Levels, shares a detailed look into exactly how he spent 5 years building the company, with reflections on what changed in the transition from very early-stage to scale up.
March 19, 2025  13:53:24
For many startups, the secret to finding product-market fit lies in the pivot. Here’s how these founders knew it was time to change directions.
March 11, 2025  14:50:31
Expert advice from Dropbox, Figma and Stripe on timing your first sales hire, finding the right candidate profile and creating effective onboarding to successfully transition from founder-led sales to a scalable revenue team.
March 4, 2025  16:30:00
Figma CPO Yuhki Yamashita offers up his playbook for the gnarly phase of product building that arrives after a startup clinches product-market fit — and sets its sights on the next phase of growth.
February 18, 2025  16:07:15
Checkr VP of Engineering Krista Moroder opens up about the rotation program that’s helped keep her org’s non-regrettable attrition at near-zero.
February 11, 2025  15:50:08
First Round partner Meka Asonye sits down with founders and first sales hires to unpack 6 specific tactics for learning to embrace founder-led sales instead of avoiding it. This is the first installment in our “0-$5M” series.
February 5, 2025  15:35:54
We sat down with the founding team for the inside story of one of the first major vertical AI exits.
January 29, 2025  15:21:27
David Loftesness has deftly cycled between management and IC roles throughout his career. Here, he lays out a plan to help engineering leaders make a smooth transition back into the technical weeds.
January 23, 2025  15:14:55
How do you create a go-to-market machine that’s able to turbocharge (and then sustain) revenue growth? Clay co-founder Varun Anand shares the biggest lessons from the company's success, with growth advice for both product-led and sales-led startups.
January 14, 2025  16:08:04
How Figma Slides founding PM Mihika Kapoor transformed a hackathon project into one of Figma's most anticipated launches.
January 7, 2025  16:21:35
For the 12th year in a row, we rounded up 30 timeless company-building insights we published from the year before.
December 16, 2024  16:32:26
Matt MacInnis, COO of Rippling, shares why most companies slow down as they scale, and his advice for how startup founders and executives can prevent it.
December 10, 2024  16:06:10
Startup founders share their go-to questions for taking a pulse check on everything from product strategy to co-founder relationships to their own decision making.
November 25, 2024  16:40:11
Crossbeam CEO and co-founder Bob Moore shares his tools for quashing biases in pursuit of the truth at every stage of company building.