From the Operators

Janice Burch of Basecamp reminds startups everywhere about the importance of diversity and how to incorporate well in "Cultivating an Inclusive Culture"

Fumiko Shinkawa of Groundswell Startups talks with founders on market validation and the steps they use to assess demand for new ideas in "Is Your Startup Idea Too Good to Be True?"

Matt Wichrowski of Entrepreneur First gives advice for compensation and negotiations with strategic advisors in "How do I price advisor shares?" 

From the Investors

Guy Turner of Hyde Park Venture Partners breaks down the steps that top companies outside of Silicon Valley follow to raise a successful Series A or B in "Flying for money: How to raise Series A and B outside Silicon Valley."

Semil Dhah of Haystack advises dealing with the dyanmics of the startup ecosystem with strongly optimism laced with paranoia in "Dangerous Assumptions"

Bryce Roberts of O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures shares his view on the "infinite time horizons" that AirBnB touted in their open letter to the community in "From Unfundable to Unstoppable" 

Trace Cohen of New York Venture Partners provides a funny and insightful hypothetical conversation between founders and investors in "20 things founders say and what investors think"

Matt Turck of FirstMark encourages both founders and VCs to embrace and understand hype cycles as a framework in "The Compression of the Hype Cycle"

Satya Patel and Hunter Walk of Homebrew announce their latest $90M fund and share the qualities they look for in potential portfolio companies through three primary attributes of their "product" in "Announcing Homebrew III: Finding our product-market fit"