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From the Operators

Luke Cooper of Fixt shares the three most important things learned when raising over $3M in funding, reminding founders that listening and learning is an often overlooked tactic in "Founders Beware: 3 Tips for Raising Money from the Right Investors"

Clint Knox of Brainitz explains in detail the routine he uses to maintain a healthy balance of a day job, a startup, and a family with two young children in "How to be a family first entrepreneur"

People Ops leaders from Coinbase, Carta, Quizlet, Stack Overflow, and more share their learnings around HR trends and effective operations in "How to Hire for HR: Lessons from 18 USV People Ops Leaders"

Guy Cohen of Wonder explains how their company assembled and prioritized a list of potential verticals on their path to finding product/market fit in "The Never-Ending Journey: In Search of Product-Market-Fit"

From the Investors

Mike Collett of Promus Ventures urges founders that the most important thing is to never run out of money, and provides five key reasons why this often happens in "The Number One Rule for Startups"

Rob Go of NextView gets deep into the VC math to illustrate the difficulty of actually achieving a 10x return on an investment, and follows up with examples of inevitable after effects in "How Hard Is It to Generate a 10X Return on an Investment?"