Calling it Generative AI is only half the equation. Generative Tech is a major shift - a whole new era of human-machine collaboration. | Continue reading
Your company name can elevate you, cripple you, or have no impact at all. Yet very few people appreciate the real impact of naming. | Continue reading
At NFX we study network effects in the wild so we can help founders build them better. Sometimes it takes us a while to notice the pattern, but we now have another one. Meet the 16th Network Effect on our list: The Hub-and-Spoke Network Effect. It’s the network effect that drove … | Continue reading
As businesses deploy increasingly complex IT systems with numerous cloud and physical networks, they face an increased risk of cyberattacks or system failures. Nearly without exception, cyberattacks have increased each year since the internet was created. McAffee found that compa … | Continue reading
NFX's Pete Flint shares 39 battle-tested tactics for operating your startup during a downturn. How to think about fundraising, and more. | Continue reading
Value creation mostly accrues in the out-years, but you can only capture it if you design for durability from day one. | Continue reading
Your startup is a network. Your goal is to bond people to it. All kinds of people from employees, investors, customers, and more. | Continue reading
5 mental models distinguish "product-Founders" from successful "Founder-CEOs". Trulia Founder, Pete Flint, breaks them down for Founders everywhere. | Continue reading
Morgan Beller examines why community building is one of the most important skill sets for web 3.0 founders across all industries. | Continue reading
Mammoth Bioscience's CEO and Cofounder walks through his Founder journey from early idea to freshly minted unicorn status. | Continue reading
Great Founders attach themselves to the upward bend of the exponential curve, and leverage the exponential laws in startups. | Continue reading
A collection of 23 insights to help Founders uncover ideas for hooks, habits, and happiness that you can build into your products. | Continue reading
What does it take to build a disruptive marketplace? Harvard Business School's professor on marketplaces shares his counterintuitive advice. | Continue reading
We are the ones creating these massive network effect businesses. So it's up to us to write new social contracts for the people who use them. | Continue reading
Keith Rabois & James Currier examine how technology's greatest startups deviate from the standard Silicon Valley "playbook". | Continue reading
Revealing the Unseen Forces That Guide Your Life What city you live in. Who you date or marry. Which job you choose. What clothes you wear. We all think we make these choices ourselves. It certainly feels like we’re in full control. But it turns out that our choices — both in o … | Continue reading
As a Founder, you are the Chief Storyteller. Here are the storytelling methods we have observed in pitches that motivate VCs to invest. | Continue reading
Tony Fadell opens his brain to NFX's Pete Flint for a deep dive on product design do's and don'ts - for the benefit of startups worldwide. | Continue reading
A collection of 48 mental models to help Founders more easily navigate the cascade of startup challenges. | Continue reading
The 13 Network Effects & How They Actually Work | Continue reading
Today’s generation of Founders need to manage crisis and chaos as a standard operating procedure, not just as a rare skill. | Continue reading
The “Passion Economy”, as coined by Li Jin, makes it easier for people to monetize their individuality through unique, creative work. This gives creators a feeling of autonomy, intrinsic satisfaction, and opens new markets. But an unseen challenge is this: “Attention” is the powe … | Continue reading
Amazon's former consumer boss breaks down the systems behind the success of Amazon, Prime, Alexa, & AWS. | Continue reading
There is a fallacy in believing your current performance is indicative of future success: Performance is a trailing indicator. Power is a leading one. | Continue reading
Austen Allred, Co-Founder & CEO at Lambda School, breaks down traditional and contrarian thinking on how we are educated. | Continue reading
Gagan Biyani, Co-founder at Sprig and Udemy, answers 4 quick-fire questions for Founders everywhere. | Continue reading
The marketplace revolution is still just beginning and the enterprise gateway is the newest type of marketplace. | Continue reading
Pete Flint and Adam Grant discuss Adam's new book, Think Again, about the counterintuitive and competitive advantages of rethinking. | Continue reading
Elad Gil's observations on many of the world’s best known billion-dollar companies and the decision frameworks they used along the way. | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
In this analysis with Prof. Tom Eisenmann at Harvard Business School, we uncover the 6 counterintuitive startup failure patterns. | Continue reading
Today, we’re sharing the newest social nfx we've identified—the 15th type of network effect: Tribal Network Effects. | Continue reading
Great Founders are starting to find their product-promise-market fit first. And it doesn’t require a single line of code. | Continue reading
Virality and network effects are conflated by even experienced Founders, and it keeps them from developing the right strategies and playbooks. | Continue reading
In a downturn, all the advantages that startups inherently have are magnified 10x and many of the advantages of incumbents have become liabilities. | Continue reading
In a downturn, all the advantages that startups inherently have are magnified 10x and many of the advantages of incumbents have become liabilities. | Continue reading
We're launching The Founder List — audio essays from the most prolific leaders in technology, selected by the Founder community. | Continue reading
To help Founders fundraise in this post-COVID-19 world, we asked 7 top VCs to reveal what's working, what's not & why remote pitching can be powerful. | Continue reading
Your life as a Founder can feel frenetic, and non-stop. But to create something that matters in the world, you must find the meaning in all of it. | Continue reading
April Underwood offers inside stories and lessons learned from leading product at two category-defining companies, Slack and Twitter. | Continue reading
The last 15 years saw tremendous consumer marketplace success stories, we expect B2B marketplaces to see similar success over the next 10 years. | Continue reading
Rahul Vohra, Founder and CEO at Superhuman, shares the product frameworks behind Superhuman's onboarding, product development, positioning, and pricing. | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
The insider story of Houseparty as told by Founder, Ben Rubin, and investor, James Currier. Ben provides a masterclass in product, pivots, and perseverance. | Continue reading
Sudden shelter-in-place is exposing massive and exciting white spaces for Founders to build new social products — as we try to find joy in connection. | Continue reading
A guide to help Founders context switch between defense and offense during downturns. Having the conviction and guts to play offense will position you well. | Continue reading
Speed is a startup's primary advantage — especially in downturns. Iconic startups are learning machines, embedding feedback loops across their teams. | Continue reading
As capital is drying up for Founders, we’re leaning in to invest more with our FAST Seed initiative: $1-2M seed round for 15%, decision in 9 days or less. | Continue reading