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Q&A with Sean Ellis (GrowthHackers)
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The Founders’ List: Valve’s New Employee Handbook
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The 4 Types Of Defensibility
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The Infinite Conflict of Hiring
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Q&A with Gagan Biyani (Sprig, Udemy)
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Good vs. Great Leaders
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The Insider Story of Twilio
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The Founders’ List: Nokia’s CEO ‘Burning Platform’ Memo
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Gaming Superpowers for Non-Game Founders with Gabi Shalel (Plarium) & Gigi Levy-Weiss
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The Paradox of Genius: Why Long-Term Thinking Wins
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The Founders’ List: The Ethereum Whitepaper
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Enterprise Gateway Marketplaces Will Turn Large Organizations Inside-Out
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The Founders’ List: Pete Flint on “How to Manage Hypercompetitive Markets”
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BJ Fogg on Tiny Habits for Startup Founders with James Currier
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Reinventing Existing vs. Creating New Markets
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The Founders’ List: The DoorDash Investment Memo from 2014
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Stanford’s “Touchy Feely” Course (For Startup Founders), with Carole Robin & James Currier
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From Idea To $200M Acquisition In Just 2 Years: 4 Lessons from Bridgecrew
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Vitalik Buterin on Space, Longevity, Mars & More (The “B-Side”)
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Vitalik Buterin on The Revolt of the Public (The “A-Side”)
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Why People Share: The Psychology Behind “Going Viral”
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Three Reasons Why NFX Invested in Latitude (Maker of AI Dungeon)
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Anti-Patterns of 10x Thinking
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Launching NFX Bio and The Rise of the Scientist Founder
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The Founders’ List: James Currier (General Partner at NFX) on “The Psychology of Startup Growth”
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The Hidden World of Pricing: Uber, Trulia, Etsy, Superhuman & More
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The Founders’ List: The Bitcoin White Paper by Satoshi Nakamoto
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The Non-Obvious Guide to Fundraising
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The Founders’ List: ‘The HP Way’ Speech by Dave Packard to Management (1960)
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Jeff Lawson on Ask Your Developer, with Pete Flint
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Your Startup Life, Post-Pandemic
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The Founders’ List: Email Exchange on Instagram Acquisition by Facebook (Kevin Systrom & Mark Zuckerberg)
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Survey Results: 14 VC & Founder Predictions for 2021
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Top 11 Questions We Asked Tech Leaders in 2020
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Erik Torenberg & James Currier on being Citizens of the Internet
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Fiverr’s Road to 797% Growth: The Decision Frameworks Behind Their Success
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Where To Build Your Startup
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High Leverage Time Management
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The Winning Psychology of Top Founders in Fundraising Meetings
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The 10x Advantage of Starting a Company Right Now
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Announcing The Founders’ List
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Media Marketplaces and the Future of Digital Media
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How VCs Judge Your Startup (on Zoom): 15+ Tactics Behind Successful Fundraises
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Why Your Work Matters: Darwin, Machines, & the Future We’re Building
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The NFX Frameworks Collection for Founders
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How CEOs Think: 5 Mental Models to Shift from Founder to CEO
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The Product Thinking That Built Slack & Twitter, with April Underwood
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Frameworks for Using Diversity to Win
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34 Questions to Recruit World-Class Talent in the Remote Era
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How Contrarians Think: The Early Days of Square, Yelp & PayPal with Keith Rabois
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24 Ways B2B Marketplaces Win
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Calling Bio Startups Who Want To Raise Capital (Final Deadline July 17)
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The Product Frameworks Behind Superhuman
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3 Reasons Why NFX Is Investing in Jupiter
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3 Reasons Why NFX Is Investing In La Haus
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How Second Time Founders Can Win and Avoid Common Mistakes
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The Second Time Founders Manual
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Results from the VC & Founder COVID-19 Sentiment Survey, Part II
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The New Generation of Labor Marketplaces and the Future of Work
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The Insider Story of Houseparty
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The Next Social Era is Here: Why Now Is the Time for Social Products Again
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Whiteboard Breakdown: A Founder’s Guide to Taking Advice
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It’s Time to Start Playing Offense
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Why Startups that Survive are “Learning Organizations”
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Whiteboard Breakdown: What Makes A Strong Startup CEO
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Whiteboard Breakdown: What Are Network Effects?
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The New Rules of Growth vs. Profitability
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Four Reasons Why NFX Invested in Nuvocargo
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The Great Reset: How Reid Hoffman & James Currier See the Path Ahead for Founders
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NFX FAST Seed Funding: 9 Days to Decision
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Shayma Sharif Promoted to Principal at NFX
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How PayPal & Trulia Navigated Downturns: David Sacks, Craft Ventures + Co-Founder of PayPal
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The Psychology of Founders Who Win in Downturns
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Results from the VC & Founder COVID-19 Sentiment Survey, Part I
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28 Moves to Survive (& Thrive) in a Downturn
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Leading Startups Through Uncertainty: Stacy Brown-Philpot, CEO of TaskRabbit
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A Founder’s Guide To Taking Advice
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What Makes Data Valuable: The Truth About Data Network Effects
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How I Raised VC From Top-Tier Funds
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Mammoth Expands Bio-Platform Network Effects to Gene-Editing
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Why Founders Should Take More Risk
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Your Life is Driven by Network Effects
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The 4 Signs of Founder-Market Fit
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The 14th Network Effect: Expertise
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How Billion Dollar Marketplaces Are Built with Marco Zappacosta, Co-Founder & CEO of Thumbtack
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3 Reasons Why NFX Is Investing In Modus
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The Founders’ List: 10 Pieces of Manufacturing Advice from Tesla CEO, Elon Musk
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16 Non-Obvious Fundraising Lessons On Pitching
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“Don’t Just Be the Best, Be the Only” with Kevin Kelly & James Currier
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What VCs Don’t See: Why We’re Bullish on Gaming Startups
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4 Signs You’re Building A World-Class Team
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NFX Podcast: Why Top Founders Understand Network Effects with Scott Cook, Founder of Intuit
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The Founders’ List: “How To Make The Most Out Of Your Time And Your Life” by Nir Eyal (Author + Former Stanford Professor)
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The One Reason We Invested in Incredible Health
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The Irrational Truths of User Behavior, with Dan Ariely
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10 Places to Find Product-Market Fit
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The Founders’ List: Steve Job’s Famous ‘Thoughts on Flash’ (Famous Memos)
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3 Reasons Why NFX Invested In Let’s Do This, Now Joined by Serena Williams & Usain Bolt
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The Unusual Signs of a Billion Dollar Company, with Elad Gil
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How to Manage Hypercompetitive Markets
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The Hidden Patterns of Startup Failure
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How VCs Decide to Take a First Meeting – 12 Reasons
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The Founders’ List: Steve Yegge’s Famous Rant on ‘Google vs Amazon’ (Famous Memos)
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3 Reasons Why NFX Is Investing In Constru
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The New Growth Mindset with Sean Ellis & James Currier
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The Hidden Patterns of Great Startup Ideas
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Status Games: Engineering Scarcity in a World of Abundance
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What Makes a Strong Startup CEO
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The Founders’ List: “Why Figma Wins” by Kevin Kwok (Former Investor at Greylock)
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The Fundraising Checklist: 13 Proof Points for Series A
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The Future of Digital Advertising with Mikael Cho & Luke Chesser, Co-Founders of Unsplash (NFX Podcast)
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What It Takes to Build an Iconic Marketplace: The Poshmark Story
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Our Top 10 Essays of All Time
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Join the World Class Team at NFX: Investment, Engineering/Product, Marketing
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The Founders’ List: Bill Gates’s internal Microsoft Memo “The Internet Tidal Wave” (Famous Memos)
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How VCs Think: The Psychology That Drives Investing Decisions
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The Psychology of Focus: How Great Teams Find Traction Amid Distraction
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The Founder Mindset: Announcing NFX Fund II, $275 Million
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The Founders’ List: “The 3 Types of Platform Companies” by Elad Gil (Color Genomics & Twitter)
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Inside Top SMB Startups
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The Competition For Your Attention with Sarah Frier (Bloomberg) & James Currier (NFX Podcast)
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The Next Frontier for 2-Sided Marketplaces: How Fintech Will Unlock Enormous Value
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10X Your Career: First Principles For Outsized Success
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NFX Podcast: Lyft vs. Uber and the Battle for Ridesharing Dominance
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3 Reasons Why NFX Invested in Codi
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NFX Founder Room Ep. 1: Growing a Marketplace into a Market Network
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The Founders’ List: “Don’t Believe Your Own B.S.” by Pete Flint (General Partner at NFX)
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The Psychology of Startup Growth
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The Tribal Network Effect (nfx #15)
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NFX Podcast: Why Growth Hacking Is Broken
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The Golden Age of Simulation with Chris Anderson & James Currier
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How VCs Negotiate: 8 Skills Top Founders Master for Startup Fundraising
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The Founders’ List: “Social Capital in Silicon Valley” by Alex Danco (Shopify & Social Capital)
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The Next Industrial Revolution: Computational Biology & Bioplatforms
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Announcing Scouts & Angels – The Investing Network (Signal 4.0)
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The NFX Company Culture Scorecard and Playbook
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The Founders’ List: Slack’s Internal Memo ‘We Don’t Sell Saddles Here’ (Famous Memos)
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The NFX Archives: Foundations for Mastering Network Effects
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Viral Effects Are Not Network Effects
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9 Habits of World Class Startups
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The Founders’ List: “The Guide to Unbundling Reddit” by Greg Isenberg (Late Checkout, Indicator Fund, TikTok Advisor, Previously WeWork/Islands/5by)
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3 Reasons Why NFX Is Investing In Firefly
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The New Mindset for Product-Market Fit
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Building Strong Companies: The “No Politics Rule”
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The Founders’ List: “Status as a Service (StaaS)” by Eugene Wei (Former Product Leader at Amazon, Hulu, Flipboard, Oculus)
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Is Blockchain Really Over?
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Announcing our new General Partner, Morgan Beller
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3 Reasons Why NFX Is Investing In Setter
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Good vs. Great Companies: The Unseen Truths of Breakout Success
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3 Reasons Why NFX Is Investing In Court Buddy
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The Founders’ List: James Currier (Managing Partner at NFX) on “The Psychology of Founders Who Win in Downturns”
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See Your Score: The NFX Marketplace Scorecard
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The Founders’ List: Nir Eyal (Author, Professor, & Investor) on “Hooks: An Intro on How to Manufacture Desire”
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PropTech: A Massive Opportunity We’re Seeing
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Reid Hoffman’s Playbook for Growth and Network Effects
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Reinforcement: The Hidden Key to Building Iconic Tech Companies
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The Future of Fundraising? What We Need to Fix About Token Investing
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Announcing “The Brief” — The Best Way to Get the VC Meeting
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3 Reasons Why NFX Invested in Radius
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How VCs See Your KPIs
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Don’t Believe Your Own B.S.
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19 Tactics to Solve the Chicken-or-Egg Problem and Grow Your Marketplace
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Announcing VC Match: The Obvious Fundraising Tool No One Built – Until Now
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Why Startup Timing is Everything
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The Ladder of Proof: Uncovering How VC’s See Your Startup
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NFX Invests in Ribbon to Transform The Home Buying Experience
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The Network Effects Bible
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We’re hiring – Engineer-in-Residence
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Network Effects in Biotechnology: Introducing Mammoth Biosciences
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Network Effects Predict the Future of Facebook
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How It’s Built: NEA + NFX on the $15.5 Million Series A in Lyric
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Entropy: The Unseen Threat to Startups
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Does Real Identity Matter for Networks?
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The Physics of Startups: Using Slingshots to Defy Gravity
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Behind the Houzz Acquisition of IvyMark: 6 Lessons for Founders
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The NFX of Trulia: Building a $3.5 Billion Marketplace
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The Network Effects Manual: 13 Different Network Effects (and counting)
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We’re Hiring – Head of Network @ NFX
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The Intentional Network Effects of Uber
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NFX Launches $150 Million Fund to Transform How True Innovators Are Funded
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70 Percent of Value in Tech is Driven by Network Effects
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An Epiphany about Network Effects
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The Next 10 Years Will Be About “Market Networks”
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Defensibility Adds the Most Value for Founders
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Where to Invest in Network Effects
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Signal – The Fundraising CRM for Startup Founders
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Your Company Name Matters…a Lot
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Pete Flint, Trulia Founder & CEO, Joins NFX Guild
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Network Effects Are Not Dead, They Are Alive and Thriving
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