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Peer-to-peer stack for code collaboration

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Radicle.xyz

World’s largest distributed and decentralized cloud platform

Co-Investors - Mayfield, Viola, Slow Ventures

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Ridge

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Eternal

Bringing play-to-earn games to the mass market

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Blinkmoon

Kryptomons are unique digital creatures, linked to a NFT

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Kryptomon

Azra Games - NFX

Azra Games

Developer-first crypto wallet infrastructure

Utila - NFX

Utila

High-yield DeFi savings account for everyday users

Gelt - NFX

Gelt

Monkey League - NFX

Monkey League

Karmaverse - NFX

Karmaverse

Totem - NFX

Totem

Xternity - NFX

Xternity

Proof Group - NFX

Proof Group

Operating system for collective intelligence

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DAOStack

Weekly insights for pre-seed and seed stage Founders in Bio, including fundraising tips, pitch decks, growth, hiring and more.

Top [Month] [Year] Resources for Bio Founders - NFX Library

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Web3

Weekly insights for pre-seed and seed stage Founders in Web3, including fundraising tips, pitch decks, growth, hiring and more.

Top [Month] [Year] Resources for Web3 Founders - NFX Library

Gaming

Weekly insights for pre-seed and seed stage Founders in Gaming, including fundraising tips, pitch decks, growth, hiring and more.

Top [Month] [Year] Resources for Gaming Founders - NFX Library

Proptech

Weekly insights for pre-seed and seed stage Founders in Proptech, including fundraising tips, pitch decks, growth, hiring and more.

Top [Month] [Year] Resources for Proptech Founders - NFX Library

LatAm

Weekly insights for pre-seed and seed stage Founders in LatAm, including fundraising tips, pitch decks, growth, hiring and more.

Top [Month] [Year] Resources for LatAm Founders - NFX Library

Space

Weekly insights for pre-seed and seed stage Founders in Space, including fundraising tips, pitch decks, growth, hiring and more.

Top [Month] [Year] Resources for Space Founders - NFX Library

Fintech

Weekly insights for pre-seed and seed stage Founders in Fintech, including fundraising tips, pitch decks, growth, hiring and more.

Top [Month] [Year] Resources for Fintech Founders - NFX Library

Marketplaces

Weekly insights for pre-seed and seed stage Founders in Marketplaces, including fundraising tips, pitch decks, growth, hiring and more.

Top [Month] [Year] Resources for Marketplaces Founders - NFX

Vitalik Buterin and Morgan Beller talk about longevity, chocolate, the Moon vs. Mars, that SF should be as big as Hong Kong, and more.

Vitalik Buterin on Space, Longevity, Mars & More (The "B-Side")

Vitalik’s unique points of view on politics, crypto, Americanism, GameStop, Wall Street Bets, Tesla, China, privacy, and more.

Vitalik Buterin on The Revolt of the Public (The "A-Side")

Web3 is changing more than technology and culture, it's also changing how we lead. NFX's Morgan Beller breaks down the new leadership skills in web3.

The 5 New Leadership Skills of Great Web3 Founders

Morgan Beller examines why community building is one of the most important skill sets for web 3.0 founders across all industries.

Building A "Community-First" Company

The origin story behind Stoner Cats and the new future for content creation in Hollywood.

Meet the Team Behind 'Stoner Cats' (an NFT Animated Series from Mila Kunis & Friends)

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Co-founder of Diem≋ (fka Libra)

Morgan is a General Partner at NFX, a seed-stage venture firm headquartered in San Francisco.

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Morgan Beller

Micha Kaufman, Founder & CEO of Fiverr, gives us access to the early days at Fiverr and what startup lessons he learned from idea to IPO.

Fiverr's Road to 797% Growth: The Decision Frameworks Behind Their Success

Only a few months ago did we start to see real shifts in hiring strategy. Founders and CEOs need to update their mental models now.

7 Mental Shifts For Hiring Now

Waze's former CEO reveals key insights for building networks from nothing.

The Insider Story of Waze

Power is shifting back to the users in web3 gaming. We are starting to see fundamental changes to the ownership of valuable in-game assets.

2 Changes to Virtual Goods in Web3 Gaming

In this NFX whiteboarding session, Gigi Levy-Weiss, Managing Partner at NFX, explains what it takes to be a strong startup CEO.

Whiteboard Breakdown: What Makes A Strong Startup CEO

Great Founders are starting to find their product-promise-market fit first. And it doesn’t require a single line of code.

The New Mindset for Product-Market Fit

Most Founders think they’re data-driven. In reality, few are. Most know that KPIs are critical, but often Founders are not looking at KPIs from the right angle. Four-time CEO Gigi Levy-Weiss shares the three questions he asks every Founder about their KPIs.

How VCs See Your KPIs

As a startup CEO, you have two different tasks that may seem the same but are actually different - being a manager and being a leader. And you must excel at both to succeed.

What Makes a Strong Startup CEO

Startups fail because they run out of money before achieving product-market fit. NFX Managing Partner Gigi Levy-Weiss identifies 10 places to look for product-market fit in startup ideas.

10 Places to Find Product-Market Fit

NFX is making public the fundraising playbooks we share with our portfolio Founders.

The Non-Obvious Guide to Fundraising

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4-time founder/operator. Founding CEO of Playtika. Head of NFX Israel.

Gigi is a General Partner at NFX, a seed-stage venture firm headquartered in San Francisco.

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Gigi Levy-Weiss

Keith Rabois & James Currier examine how technology's greatest startups deviate from the standard Silicon Valley "playbook".

How Contrarians Think: The Early Days of Square, Yelp & PayPal with Keith Rabois

Li Jin created the term "The Passion Economy" - and today she analyzes the pros and cons of its underlying currency: attention.

The Passion Economy and Its Hidden Currency

James Currier & Eugene Wei (product lead at Amazon, Hulu, Oculus), discuss the underlying status games that drive us all—in technology and life.

Status Games: Engineering Scarcity in a World of Abundance

A discussion between Intuit Founder Scott Cook and NFX Managing Partner James Currier about the power of network effects.

NFX Podcast: Why Top Founders Understand Network Effects with Scott Cook, Founder of Intuit

You’re going to be asked by investors, key recruits, and journalists for your 5 core metrics.

5 Core Startup Metrics

Facebook stands alone in the depth and variety of network effects they’ve built, even though most go undetected. As a result, their defensibility is unparalleled.

Network Effects Predict the Future of Facebook

James Currier is making public the "8 Motivation Clusters" that cause people to share—to help Founders engineer virality into their products.

Why People Share: The Psychology Behind "Going Viral"

Founder-market fit is about more than just industry expertise or experience. NFX Managing Partner James Currier breaks down the four dimensions that contribute to Founder-Market Fit.

Most of the discussions around “Founder-Market Fit” tend to focus on the more tangible concept of industry expertise. In my years as a Founder and investor, I’ve found that there’s a lot more to it. We see four dimensions that contribute to Founder-Market Fit: Obsession Founder Story Personality Experience ‍ Let’s break it down. 1. &hellip; Continue reading "The 4 Signs of Founder-Market Fit"

The 4 Signs of Founder-Market Fit

The unseen hand in all of our decisions in life is the networks that surround us and the powerful math they exert on us.

Your Life Is Driven By Network Effects

The 13 Network Effects &amp; How They Actually Work

The 13 Network Effects & How They Actually Work

The Network Effects Manual: 13 Different Network Effects (and counting)

Network effects have been responsible for 70% of all the value created in technology since 1994. Founders who deeply understand how they work will be better positioned to build category-defining companies.
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Network effects have been responsible for 70% of all the value created in technology since 1994. Founders who deeply understand how they work will be better positioned to build category-defining companies.

The Network Effects Bible

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5-time founder. Expert on network effects.

James is a General Partner at NFX, a seed-stage venture firm headquartered in San Francisco.

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James Currier

NFX Managing Partner Pete Flint talks to Thumbtack co-founder &amp; CEO Marco Zappacosta about building billion dollar marketplaces.

NFX Managing Partner Pete Flint talks to Thumbtack co-founder & CEO Marco Zappacosta about building billion dollar marketplaces.

How Billion Dollar Marketplaces Are Built with Marco Zappacosta, Co-Founder &amp; CEO of Thumbtack

Launched in 2006 and headquartered in San Francisco, Eventbrite has navigated through the pandemic with a refocused strategy and a leaner cost base. In September of 2018, Julia took Eventbrite public, making her among the few women to lead the successful initial public offering of a technology start-up.

Taking Eventbrite Public with Julia & Kevin Hartz

&nbsp; &nbsp; Jeff Lawson, software developer turned CEO of Twilio, creates a new playbook for unleashing the full potential of software developers in any organization, showing how to help management utilize this coveted and valuable workforce to enable growth, solve a wide range of business problems, and drive digital transformation. General Partner at NFX Pete &hellip; Continue reading "Jeff Lawson on Ask Your Developer, with Pete Flint"

Jeff Lawson on Ask Your Developer, with Pete Flint

Pete Flint and Adam Grant discuss Adam's new book, Think Again, about the counterintuitive and competitive advantages of rethinking.

Anti-Patterns of 10x Thinking

Pete Flint (Managing Partner at NFX) separates startup risk into 2 separate buckets - external/market risk and internal/execution risk. Pete breaks down these groups further into several specific categories founders need to consider when evaluating the direction of their company.

Why Founders Should Take More Risk with Pete Flint

Almost every marketplace will face similar problems in one form or another, but I believe our solutions at Trulia were uniquely effective. By sharing our story, I hope to cut through the of vague (and bad) advice out there with a detailed account of how we built a multi-billion dollar, category leading marketplace in under 10 years; a story which, I hope, Founders will find both interesting and useful.

The NFX of Trulia: Building a $3.5 Billion Marketplace

Marketplace Founders commonly overfit their growth strategies to existing playbooks — which dramatically slows their growth.

Growth Frameworks For Your Marketplace

With unemployment expected to reach 20-30%, on par with the Great Depression, the COVID-19 crisis heralds a once-in-a-century moment in the job market.

The New Generation of Labor Marketplaces and the Future of Work

Pete Flint, Founding CEO at Trulia and NFX Partner, is making public his playbooks for building world-class teams.

4 Signs You’re Building A World-Class Team

5 mental models distinguish "product-Founders" from successful "Founder-CEOs". Trulia Founder, Pete Flint, breaks them down for Founders everywhere.

How CEOs Think: 5 Mental Models to Shift from Founder to CEO

To help better understand startup timing, we’ve developed a framework we call the Critical Mass Theory of Startups

Why Startup Timing is Everything

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2-time unicorn founder/operator. Co-founder &amp; former CEO of Trulia, founding team at <a href="http://lastminute.com/">lastminute.com</a>. Born in UK.

Pete is a General Partner at NFX, a seed-stage venture firm based in San Francisco.

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