Author: First Round Review

Binti’s Path to Product-Market Fit — Lessons in Immersive User Research



In this post in our “Paths to Product-Market Fit” series, Binti’s co-founder and CEO Felicia Curcuru sits down with First Round partner Todd Jackson to tell the story of how her time spent shadowing family social workers in San Francisco empowered her to build a product now used by a third of the country’s child welfare agencies.

Pull, Don’t Push: How Catalysts Overcome Barriers and Drive Product Adoption



Marketing expert Jonah Berger has spent years probing into the science behind changing people’s minds, and why becoming an effective change agent is about lowering barriers, not pushing harder. He distilled five of the most common barriers into a simple framework and walks us through how founders can more effectively build and sell products.

Small Habits Co-Founders Can Hang On to as They Build the Plane While Flying It



Labelbox’s Manu Sharma and Brian Rieger have turned a decade-long friendship into a lasting business partnership, scaling the AI developer tool startup since co-founding it together in 2017. Here, they share small habits that co-founders can rely on to bolster their relationship at any stage — from getting aligned on decision rights to thoughtfully crafting an executive team.