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Steve Blank on data streams that every founder needs, putting all of them together and building an information culture that will help you get to product/market fit.

The 3 Data Streams That Every Founder Needs – ThinkGrowth.org And why “just asking customers” isn’t enough

CB Insights analyzed 28 of the best VC hits of all time from web archives, books, S-1s, founder interviews, and more. Read what they learned in the article

From Alibaba to Zynga: 28 Of The Best VC Bets Of All Time And What We Can Learn From Them These venture bets on startups that "returned the fund," making firms and careers, were the result of research, strong convictions, and patient follow-through. Here are the stories behind the biggest VC home runs of all time.

Twenty years ago, no one recognized the Netflix logo. Today, with more than 100 million members, customers instantly identify the logo and trust Netflix. Here is the story of creating the brand.

Branding for Builders – Insights – Medium How Netflix defined a brand that helped it to build a great product, and vice-versa. (I was VP Product from 2005–2010.)

The inspiring story of how Aaptiv went from burning $2.4m a month to being free cash flow positive in 7 months

How I learned to stop worrying and love working capital This article is by Ethan Agarwal, founder and CEO of Aaptiv, a digital health company with nearly 200k paying members.

"If you want to learn more about who’s using your app, read what they’re saying in app reviews." John Saito was on a mission to read thousands of Dropbox reviews and here is what he discovered

Are app reviews worth reading? – Dropbox Design – Medium What I learned from reading thousands of app reviews

"The truth is, the best system is one that's easily changed as your company grows and changes. Constant iteration means you're doing all the right things." Discover Betterment's way to a perfect performance management system

Betterment Tested Three Performance Management Systems So You Don't Have To As Founder and CEO of Betterment, Jon Stein realized startups can't just establish one way to measure employee performance — they have to continually iterate as they grow. Here's how to do it well.

The trajectory of your product quality matters way more than where it is today

Trajectory matters more than state - Inside Intercom Which deserves more attention: a big wound that’s healing, or a tiny tumour that’s growing? Always consider trajectory when assessing business problems.

Three common ways companies use to unleash the innovation: follow mega trends, keep it simple, fail and scale fast

The Only Constant – Hacker Noon When Disruption Is The Only Evolution

TechCrunch looked at some of the top-returning large exits of past year, and there are no best-known brands among them

These startup exits delivered the biggest bang for the buck Big IPOs by the best-known brands tend to dominate attention in startup circles. But when it comes to delivering significant returns on invested capital,..

Just because the technology already exists doesn’t mean there is no innovation to be had

It’s not Live Chat, it’s Messaging: How Slack, Intercom and Drift are Reinventing a Crowded Market The technologists scoffed at those early Slack valuations.

Where might design be going within start-ups in 2018? Discover highlights and results of NEA research from over 350+ companies

Future of Design in Start-Ups: 2017 We launched the Future of Design in Start-Ups survey last year to set a baseline for how design operates in the tech ecosystem and also to begin to track what value is created by design in fast growing companies.