For Founders

[Luck and the Entrepreneur,  Part 1: The four kinds of luck](https://pmarchive.com/luck_and_the_entrepreneur.html)

## Product-Market fit

[7 Lessons from Andy Rachleff on Product-Market Fit](https://medium.com/parsa-vc/7-lessons-from-andy-rachleff-on-product-market-fit-9fc5eceb4432)

[Why I Care About Problem Size More Than Market Size](https://hunterwalk.com/2017/04/12/why-i-care-about-problem-size-more-than-market-size/)  April 2017 by hunterwalk

[Eight Essentials for Scaling Up Without Screwing Up](https://hbr.org/2014/02/eight-essentials-for-scaling-up-without-screwing-up)
Robert I. Sutton FEBRUARY 2014

[How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit](https://firstround.com/review/how-superhuman-built-an-engine-to-find-product-market-fit/)

## Personal Journey

[How to Get Startup Ideas](http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html) Paul Graham

[Steve Blank: How To Keep Your Job As Your Startup Grows](https://angel.co/blog/steve-blank-how-to-keep-your-job-as-your-startup-grows?email_uid=847049439&utm_campaign=platform-newsletter-111518&utm_content=keep-reading&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter-newsletter&utm_term=)
If you’re an early company employee, it’s not likely that the skills you have on day one are the skills needed as the company scales to the next level.

[Uncertainty Wednesday: Working for a Startup](https://continuations.com/post/183911830285/uncertainty-wednesday-working-for-a-startup)

[Developing meta-systematicity in relationship](https://meaningness.com/cofounders-in-relationship)
> When you manage a business whose details you can’t know, the temptation is to think of it as a big machine, or a manufacturing plant

## Jobs at Startups and building a team

[AngelList](https://angel.co/)
Where the world meets startups

[Cofoundit](https://cofoundit.ru/) in Russia [connecting startups](https://cofoundit.ru/blog/samoilova-marketing-startapov) and [the story](https://vc.ru/hr/46909-nauchilis-nahodit-sotrudnikov-v-startapy-i-spasli-cofoundit-ot-zamorozki) in russian

## Basics

expressive Ben Hunt (Epsilon Theory), porftfolio market manager, has a basic advice for startup founders 
[Dogs, Dog Food, and the Curse of Some Talent](https://www.epsilontheory.com/dogs-dog-food-and-the-curse-of-some-talent/)
> It’s the Curse of Some Talent, when you’ve got an idea or a venture that seems great to
> you, but isn’t quiiiiite great enough to make it in the cold cruel world. But you remain
> convinced it’s SUCH a good idea, you remain convinced......

## the role of VCs

[Venture capital is a hell of a drug](https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/16/venture-capital-is-a-hell-of-a-drug/)

[Not even wrong - ways to dismiss technology](https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/5/24/not-even-wrong-ways-to-dismiss-technology)

[Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980s](http://reactionwheel.net/2015/01/80s-vc.html)

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