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From the Operators

Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, announces the creation of the Long Term Stock Exchange, a new public market designed to align long term thinking between investors and operators.

Jonathan Solórzano-Hamilton of UCLA discusses what it took to fire their best, but incredibly egotistical, software engineer in “We fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made.”

Pulkit Agrawal of Chameleon cites Nir Eyal's Hook Model to make the case that returning users are the result of an amazing onboarding process in “Building a Habit-Forming Product Starts With Your User Onboarding”

Justin Kan of Atrium (and Justin.tv, Twitch, & Y Combinator) follows up his 2014 guide to selling a company with his complete guide to raising Series A financing in “The Founder’s Guide to Raising a Series A Venture Financing”

Andrew Chen of Uber provides a list of four key aspects and a series of tactics to building a successful marketplace in “How to build a billion dollar digital marketplace – examples from Uber, eBay, Craigslist, and more”

Ming Lu of Lattice uses the story of moving from a finance background to being a software PM to explain what it takes to change careers in startups in “From pork bellies to product management”

Margot Mazur of Wistia explains the method that’s helped make working remotely productive and positive in “The 3/2/2/1 Method: Using Self-Awareness to Work Well Remotely”

From the Investors

Chris Moody of Foundry Group points out that when it comes to effectively communicating with a VC, the amount of effort a founder puts in will certainly affect getting the response they seek in “The First Rule of VC Engagement a.k.a. ‘Don’t Be Lazy’”

Leo Polovets of Susa Ventures knows that economically a dollar is fungible, but in the business world, there are (at least) eight different scenarios where one dollar is worth more than another in “When is a Dollar not a Dollar?”

Roger Ehrenberg of IA Ventures has a short but important point about why it’s crucial for founders, funders, and employees to act with dignity and professionalism when a company comes to an end in “Ending with dignity”

Scott Barclay of Data Collective explains how the recent digitization of healthcare records has opened huge opportunities for startups to disrupt incumbent healthcare companies in “Investing in Computational Care Startups: A Preface”

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