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From the Operators

Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt is on the Y Combinator podcast discussing what it takes to be a non-technical founder, getting started as an entrepreneur, and how listening to customers helped when building the next product in “The More You Communicate with Users, the Higher Chance You’ll Build Something They Want”

Wade Foster of Zapier discusses not just what it’s like to be remote-first, but what it takes to maintain a remote working culture past 100 employees in “Employer Spotlight: Zapier, a Remote Work Leader”

Rebecca Corliss of Owl Labs thinks that companies should embrace remote work and stop asking whether it’s good or bad, because the shift to remote operations is already here in “Stop Managing Your Remote Workers As If They Work Onsite”

Sam DeBrule of Journal (and former editor of this newsletter) has assembled a list of the best resources for product managers and designers (and therefore founders) in “The Gargantuan Product & Design Resource Hub”

Irina Tsumarava of Kraftblick recalls an internal team missing a deadline due to secondary tasks distracting from their core efforts in “How Teams (Including Ours) Miss Deadlines While Staying Busy All The Time”

A series of interviews with developer evangelists from Microsoft, Slack, Adobe, Twilio, MongoDB, and more demonstrate the value a company can get from their engineering organization’s brand in “Tech evangelists reveal the secrets to attracting great developers”

From the Investors

Mike Shaver of Real Ventures shares his take of what it takes to get started, get funding, and keep the machine operating in “Secrets of Startups”

Christoph Janz of Point Nine Capital provides a few questions to ask when trying to decide if a favorable customer acquisition cost means it’s time to scale up growth in “Knowing when to scale (and how to prove that you can do it)”

Brad Feld of Foundry Group considers what it takes to design inclusive, sustainable startup communities by summarizing a new book “The Innovation Blind Spot”

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