Morgan Beller

Read Morgan’s techniques and frameworks for Web3, Space, and Fintech companies. Morgan is the co-founder of Libra and was Head of Strategy for Novi, Facebook’s digital wallet for the Libra payment system.

[Year] Insights for Seed Founders by Morgan Beller - NFX Library

Omri Amirav-Drory, Ph.D.

Read Omri’s essays as he explores the latest innovation in biology and techbio. Omri is a scientist and an operator who has founded, scaled, and led a successful acquisition by Twist Bioscience.

[Year] Insights for Seed Founders by Omri Amirav-Drory, Ph.D. - NFX Library

Pete Flint

See Pete’s 60+ resources on hiring, strategy, scaling, and fundraising playbooks for Proptech, Fintech, Marketplaces, Web3, and LatAm companies. He is a 2x unicorn Founder and former CEO of Trulia.

[Year] Insights for Seed Founders by Pete Flint - NFX Library

Gigi Levy-Weiss

See Gigi’s 30+ resources on hiring strategy, scaling, and fundraising playbooks for Gaming, Web3, Bio, and Space companies. He is a 4x founder/operator. Founding CEO of Playtika. Head of NFX Israel.

[Year] Insights for Seed Founders by Gigi Levy-Weiss - NFX Library

James Currier

See James’ 100+ resources on network effects, market networks, and growth. James is a 5x Founder and invests in Marketplaces, Web3, Fintech, Gaming, and Bio.

[Year] Insights for Seed Founders by James Currier - NFX Library

We’re Scientist-Founders. We’ve walked in your shoes, from the lab to scaling $B+ techbio companies.

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

Gaming is about connection. As games founders ourselves, we've been bullish on this market from day 1.

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

Generative AI is the next step in software. It turns AI into a collaborative partner to unlock a frictionless creative process across industries.

Generative AI

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

Top [Month] [Year] Resources for Generative AI Founders - NFX Library

Real estate is in early stages of tech adoption. Pete Flint is an unfair advantage to have in your corner.

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

Millions of consumers are coming online in LatAm, quickly creating massive market opportunities.

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

Israel is a global software powerhouse. Gigi Levy-Weiss partners with founders to build and scale.

Israel

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

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

We're focused on backing the Founders who are building a space economy that makes life better on Earth.

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 is unlocking enormous value by digitizing and encompassing more of the transaction.

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

We have founded, advised, and invested in 80+ marketplace startups. Including DoorDash, Lyft, Trulia, and Patreon.

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

Crypto presents us with the opportunity to remake the Internet into a more creative, lucrative, sustainable, and safe place.

Crypto

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

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 Crypto Founders - NFX Library

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Network Effects

See 30+ resources on network effects for pre-seed and seed Founders. Companies with the strongest types of network effects built into their core business model tend to win – and win big.

Top [Month] [Year] Insights for Founders on Network Effects - NFX Library

Fundraising

Read 20+ NFX pitch decks, core metrics, and ladder of proof on how to fundraise your pre-seed and seed rounds.

Top [Month] [Year] Insights for Founders on Fundraising - NFX Library

Growth

See 100+ resources, frameworks, and guides from NFX to help pre-seed and seed Founders build iconic businesses during challenging times and navigate the new rules of growth.

Top [Month] [Year] Insights for Founders on Growth - NFX Library

Leadership

See 40+ resources on leadership strategies, playbooks, and podcasts for CEOs, CTOs, and founding teams for pre-seed and seed stage companies.

Top [Month] [Year] Insights for Founders on Leadership - NFX Library

Investment Memos

Learn more about NFX’s recent pre-seed and seed investments in Bio, Web3, Gaming, Proptech, LatAm, Space, Fintech, and Marketplaces.

Top [Month] [Year] Insights for Founders on Investment Memos - NFX Library

Psychology

See 40+ resources on useful pre-seed and seed Founder mental models. A Founder’s mental approach is the greatest point of leverage in a company’s success or failure.

Top [Month] [Year] Insights for Founders on Psychology - NFX Library

Announcements

The latest news from NFX venture capital. NFX invests in pre-seed and seed companies in Bio, Web3, Gaming, Proptech, LatAm, Space, Fintech, and Marketplaces.

Top [Month] [Year] Insights for Founders on Announcements - NFX Library

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Videos

Watch 30+ videos from NFX on hiring, fundraising, and growth for pre-seed and seed Founders. [Subscribers] startups get weekly insights from NFX venture capital firm.

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Podcasts

Listen to 80+ episodes from NFX and industry leaders like Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum), Jeff Wilke (Amazon), Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn) and many more. 170k+ startups get weekly insights from NFX.

Top [Month] [Year] Podcasts - NFX Library

Essays

Read 100+ essays from NFX on hiring, fundraising, and growth for pre-seed and seed Founders. 170k+ startups get weekly insights from NFX venture capital firm.

Top [Month] [Year] Essays - NFX Library

5 Core Startup Metrics

“Traction Tactics” Behind Square, PayPal, Waze, Twilio &#038; More

Growth Frameworks For Your Marketplace

Why People Share: The Psychology Behind &#8220;Going Viral&#8221;

The 3 Phases of Product-Led Growth: The Triple Whale Method

The Systems of Elite CEOs: Setting the Stage for Billion-Dollar Growth

Building Your Startup’s Attention Flywheel

Find The Fast Moving Water

Academia or Startup? A Decision Matrix for Future Scientist-Founders

39 Moves to Survive (&#038; Thrive) in a Downturn: 2022 Edition

NFX Playbook for Naming Your Company &#8211; Part 1

The Economics of Creativity: Who Gets Paid and Why

“Crazy Until It’s Not”: New Story Charity’s Bitcoin-Based Mortgages, NFTs and 3D-Printed Homes

The Inside Story of Nextdoor: What Community Means Now

Building Confidence Networks In Latin America

7 Mental Shifts For Hiring Now

Building A &#8220;Community-First&#8221; Company

A Founder’s Exponential Toolset: Wright’s Law, Moore’s Law, &#038; More

Keep Them Coming Back: 23 Habit-Making Insights for Product-Minded Founders

9 Ideation Frameworks of Top Founders

Seeing Growth in a Downturn with Eran Ben-Shushan &#038; Gigi Levy-Weiss

&#8220;A Tragedy of Measurement&#8221; with Rob Goldman &#038; James Currier

The Founders&#8217; List: An Inside Look at How YouTube Scaled (Rituals for Hypergrowth)

Major Opportunities for Young Founders with Jon Levin, Dean of Stanford GSB

The Insider Story of Waze

Startup Speed As A Public Good

The 6 Patterns Of Uncommonly Successful Teams

From Outsider to $5B SPAC in 6 Years

The 7 Powers Known to Tesla, Pixar, Netflix, Apple &#038; Twilio

Hippo: From Idea to IPO with CEO Assaf Wand &#038; Pete Flint

The Infinite Conflict of Hiring

Gaming Superpowers for Non-Game Founders with Gabi Shalel (Plarium) &#038; Gigi Levy-Weiss

The Founders&#8217; List: Pete Flint on &#8220;How to Manage Hypercompetitive Markets&#8221;

Reinventing Existing vs. Creating New Markets

The Founders&#8217; List: James Currier (General Partner at NFX) on &#8220;The Psychology of Startup Growth&#8221;

Jeff Lawson on Ask Your Developer, with Pete Flint

Erik Torenberg &#038; James Currier on being Citizens of the Internet

Fiverr&#8217;s Road to 797% Growth: The Decision Frameworks Behind Their Success

How To Compete with Big Tech and Win with Zeev Farbman &#038; Gigi Levy-Weiss

Where To Build Your Startup

High Leverage Time Management

The 10x Advantage of Starting a Company Right Now

Announcing The Founders&#8217; List

Sean Ellis: &#8220;The Growth Pyramid Revisited&#8221;

Dharmesh Shah: &#8220;Aligning Vectors: How To Optimize To Maximize Impact&#8221;

Why Your Work Matters: Darwin, Machines, &#038; the Future We&#8217;re Building

The NFX Frameworks Collection for Founders

The Product Thinking That Built Slack &#038; Twitter, with April Underwood

Frameworks for Using Diversity to Win

34 Questions to Recruit World-Class Talent in the Remote Era

24 Ways B2B Marketplaces Win

The Product Frameworks Behind Superhuman

How Second Time Founders Can Win and Avoid Common Mistakes

The Second Time Founders Manual

Results from the VC &amp; Founder COVID-19 Sentiment Survey, Part II

The New Generation of Labor Marketplaces and the Future of Work

The Insider Story of Houseparty

The Next Social Era is Here: Why Now Is the Time for Social Products Again

Whiteboard Breakdown: A Founder&#8217;s Guide to Taking Advice

It’s Time to Start Playing Offense

Why Startups that Survive are “Learning Organizations”

The New Rules of Growth vs. Profitability

The Great Reset: How Reid Hoffman &#038; James Currier See the Path Ahead for Founders

How PayPal &#038; Trulia Navigated Downturns: David Sacks, Craft Ventures + Co-Founder of PayPal

The Psychology of Founders Who Win in Downturns

Results from the VC &#038; Founder COVID-19 Sentiment Survey, Part I

28 Moves to Survive (&#038; Thrive) in a Downturn

As the startup ecosystem has grown, we’ve seen a decreasing appetite for risk. Today, NFX Managing Partner Pete Flint is sharing a framework for all Founders to evaluate startup risk.

Why Founders Should Take More Risk

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

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

The Founders’ List: 10 Pieces of Manufacturing Advice from Tesla CEO, Elon Musk

&#8220;Don&#8217;t Just Be the Best, Be the Only&#8221; with Kevin Kelly &#038; James Currier

The biggest opportunities for Founders are often found where VC interest is low. One area many VCs seem to be missing &amp; we believe Founders would be wise to consider is gaming.

What VCs Don&#8217;t See: Why We&#8217;re Bullish on Gaming Startups

4 Signs You’re Building A World-Class Team

The Founders’ List: &#8220;How To Make The Most Out Of Your Time And Your Life&#8221; by Nir Eyal (Author + Former Stanford Professor)

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

The Unusual Signs of a Billion Dollar Company, with Elad Gil

7 key strategies for startups dealing with hypercompetitive markets characterized by capable &amp; well-capitalized competitors and incumbents.

How to Manage Hypercompetitive Markets

The Hidden Patterns of Startup Failure

The Founders&#8217; List: Steve Yegge&#8217;s Famous Rant on &#8216;Google vs Amazon&#8217; (Famous Memos)

The New Growth Mindset with Sean Ellis &#038; James Currier

5 frameworks to help Founders coming up with a new startup idea that is the most likely to lead to a transformative company.

The Hidden Patterns of Great Startup Ideas

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

The Founders’ List: &#8220;Why Figma Wins&#8221; by Kevin Kwok (Former Investor at Greylock)

The Future of Digital Advertising with Mikael Cho &#038; Luke Chesser, Co-Founders of Unsplash (NFX Podcast)

They were rejected by 200+ investors. They were turned down by every single payment processor in the country. They discovered they were in violation of USPS regulations, and almost ran out of money. Yet today, Poshmark is one of the most successful marketplaces of all time.

What It Takes to Build an Iconic Marketplace: The Poshmark Story

The Founders’ List: Bill Gates&#8217;s internal Microsoft Memo &#8220;The Internet Tidal Wave&#8221; (Famous Memos)

The Psychology of Focus: How Great Teams Find Traction Amid Distraction

The Founders’ List: &#8220;The 3 Types of Platform Companies&#8221; by Elad Gil (Color Genomics &#038; Twitter)

Lessons for Founders from the SMB Tech Summit on May 15, 2019 in San Francisco presented by NFX and GGV Capital.

Inside Top SMB Startups

The Competition For Your Attention with Sarah Frier (Bloomberg) &#038; James Currier (NFX Podcast)

By using fintech to enable marketplace transactions, startups will be able to unlock new frontiers of opportunity. Fintech-enabled marketplaces are the next stage in marketplace evolution.

The Next Frontier for 2-Sided Marketplaces: How Fintech Will Unlock Enormous Value

Growth is not a one-time gimmick. To get 1000% growth, there is no silver bullet. Growth comes from adopting the right psychology. From an approach you bring to your daily work consistently for years.

The Psychology of Startup Growth

A discussion with Andy Johns on growth hacking and balancing between optimization and innovation.