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How startups lose their edge
A firsthand account of how "playing not to lose" can accidentally kill your startup
 • PostHog
32 things we’ve learned about building a startup that scales
What growing PostHog from 11 to 150 people taught us about culture, hiring, product, marketing, and more
 • Charles Cook
Glue teams vs back-office teams
Don't get this wrong
 • Michael Matloka
Failure modes for engineering team leads
...and how to avoid them.
 • Lior Neu-ner
Finding a job as a product engineer
Tactical advice for ambitious developers
 • Andy Vandervell
Job interview questions engineers should ask (but don't)
...or how to join the right startup and stand out from the crowd
 • James Hawkins and Andy Vandervell
43 things we've learned about hiring at PostHog
In the last 12 months, we've received 30,000 applications, interviewed 2,000 candidates, and hired 65 people. We learned some stuff.
 • Charles Cook
The magic of small engineering teams
How to ship fast and scale at the same time
 • James Temperton
Hiring (and managing) cracked engineers
"Cracked: Term used for people who are insanely good at something"
 • Charles Cook
How first-time founders fail
Lessons from the founders of Supabase, Mailgun, and Teleport
 • Andy Vandervell
What we learned about hiring from our first five employees
Get it right the first time
 • Andy Vandervell
Pragmatic startup lessons from Elon
How ambition survives contact with reality
 • James Hawkins
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