Anna Piñol

NFX - Anna Piñol

Anastasia Budinskaya

NFX - Anastasia Budinskaya

Daniel Museles

NFX - Daniel Museles

Valerie Osband Mahoney

NFX - Valerie Osband Mahoney

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

Cybersecurity

NFX - Cybersecurity

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

AI is the next step in software. It turns software into a collaborative partner across industries.

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 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

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

The combination of great founders and their networks has been the core mechanism of progress for all of human history. This is what makes Silicon Valley more than just a place. It’s a networked mindset. It's our central hub for a reason. 

Silicon Valley

The combination of great founders and their networks has been the core mechanism of progress for all of human history. This is what makes Silicon Valley more than just a place. It’s a networked mindset. It's our central hub for a reason.

NFX - Silicon Valley

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 seeing a new wave of innovative, competitive founders driving the tech ecosystem forward in Europe.  

Europe

NFX - Europe

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

Legal Tech

NFX - Legal Tech

Insurance

NFX - Insurance

Consumer

NFX - Consumer

SaaS

NFX - SaaS

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

All NFX Content

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.

Top [Month] [Year] Videos - NFX Library

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

The 5 New Leadership Skills of Great Web3 Founders

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

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

Why Startups that Survive are “Learning Organizations”

1,000 Simultaneous Experiments: The Next Mental State for Founders

The Wartime CEO: 9 Leadership Principles for Strong Startups

How to Prepare for an Upturn

Investor Updates in Tough Times: A Guide for Founders

From Idea to IPO: A Behind-the-Scenes Retrospective on Building Trulia

This is a challenging climate for Founders, and for your relationships with your employees, customers, co-founders – and your investors. Your relationship with your investors is always critical to your mission and success, but perhaps even more so right now, during a macroeconomic crisis. 

There’s an untold amount of upside in learning how to navigate and uplevel these relationships, in the good times and in bad.

Uplevel Your Founder-VC Relationship

From Biotech to TechBio

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

How To Run An Early-Stage Board Meeting

The NFX Founder Toolkit

A Mammoth Becomes A Unicorn: Inside a Scientist-Founder’s Journey from Pre-Seed to Series D

Trillion-Dollar Leadership: An Inside Look at Jeff Bezos &#038; Eric Schmidt

&#8216;Super Founders&#8217; with Ali Tamaseb &#038; James Currier

The 9 Habits of Ultra-Fast Iterations

The Goldilocks Zone of Startups: Why &#8220;Just Right&#8221; Is Not In The Middle

Amazon's former consumer boss breaks down the systems behind the success of Amazon, Prime, Alexa, &amp; AWS.

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The CEO That Jeff Bezos Called “His Teacher”

The CEOs We Need Now

The Founders&#8217; List: Amazon&#8217;s 14 Leadership Principles

Good vs. Great Leaders

The Paradox of Genius: Why Long-Term Thinking Wins

BJ Fogg on Tiny Habits for Startup Founders with James Currier

Stanford&#8217;s &#8220;Touchy Feely&#8221; Course (For Startup Founders), with Carole Robin &#038; James Currier

Anti-Patterns of 10x Thinking

High Leverage Time Management

The Winning Psychology of Top Founders in Fundraising Meetings

Max Mullen: &#8220;How to Run a Product Brainstorm&#8221;

Julie Zhuo: &#8220;How to be Strategic&#8221;

How Second Time Founders Can Win and Avoid Common Mistakes

The Second Time Founders Manual

It’s Time to Start Playing Offense

Whiteboard Breakdown: What Makes A Strong Startup CEO

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

The Psychology of Founders Who Win in Downturns

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

Leading Startups Through Uncertainty: Stacy Brown-Philpot, CEO of TaskRabbit

A Founder’s Guide To Taking Advice

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

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.

The 4 Signs of Founder-Market Fit

4 Signs You’re Building A World-Class Team

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

How to Manage Hypercompetitive Markets

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

10X Your Career: First Principles For Outsized Success

The Founders’ List: “Don&#8217;t Believe Your Own B.S.” by Pete Flint (General Partner at NFX)

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

See your score on The NFX Company Culture Scorecard. Use the Playbook to build great company culture.
<a href="https://content.nfx.com/team/pete-flint/">Pete Flint</a> and <a href="https://content.nfx.com/team/james-currier/">James Currier</a>, Managing Partners

The NFX Company Culture Scorecard and Playbook

A discussion of the 9 core operating principles that world class companies tend to embrace, by NFX Managing Partner James Currier.

9 Habits of World Class Startups

3 Steps to making "No Company Politics" your startup’s policy.