1/ Eleven years ago, I published my first post on Redeye VC. Two lines really resonate: “I really believe in the power of an elegant, simple idea... Sometimes the most 'obvious' (after the fact) ideas are the most powerful.”
2/ But ideas from one person — no matter how productive or prolific — won't cover the range of know-how that today's founders and teams need to build each facet of their companies.
3/ About four years ago, we launched @firstround Review to get tactical knowledge out of the heads of remarkable tech operators and onto the web where it could benefit the whole startup community.
4/ Hundreds of Review articles later, we've learned a lot about what makes company-building advice actually useful — and how hard the good stuff is to find. It's nearly impossible to find signal in the noise, and startups deserve better.
5/ We live in a world of poorly-written listicles full of misinformation published under the guise of “thought leadership” — but we shouldn't have to.
6/ Teams should spend their energy building solutions, not searching for answers. So, today, we're launching First Search, making it easier for startups to find the best evergreen advice from tech's greatest thinkers — collected, curated and searchable. search.firstround.com
