What's New

See the latest Trusted Library digests, grouped by the week they were added.

What's New

See the latest Trusted Library digests, grouped by the week they were added.

8 October 2018

This week's additions focus on leadership, founder stories, and product, with new digests from Y Combinator, Ahrefs, and Bill Gallagher. Highlights include Why raising money killed Pebble's frugality — twice Short, keyword-based URLs consistently outrank longer alternatives in Google.

Showing 5 digests for 8 October 2018.

Founder interviews

YouTube

Hardware and hard tech startups: lessons from Pebble's founder

Y Combinator October 12, 2018


Founder interviews 9
MVP & prototyping 8
Bootstrapping 6
  • Why raising money killed Pebble's frugality — twice
  • Two crowdfunding moments founders consistently confuse
  • Start selling before your product is ready — always

SEO

YouTube

WordPress SEO basics: settings, plugins, and on-page optimisation

Ahrefs October 10, 2018


SEO 9
  • Short, keyword-based URLs consistently outrank longer alternatives in Google.
  • Yoast SEO handles sitemaps, title tags, and meta descriptions without code.
  • WordPress page hierarchy lets you nest service pages under subfolders cleanly.

Culture building

YouTube

Building a team that stays: what great leaders actually do

Bill Gallagher October 10, 2018


Culture building 9
Hiring & recruitment 7
Management 5
  • Stop running the company — your job is finding people smarter than you.
  • Ask employees their life dream before telling them yours.
  • Retention follows when people believe the company serves their mission too.

MVP & prototyping

YouTube

Technical founder advice: building teams, tech debt, and shipping fast

Y Combinator October 10, 2018


MVP & prototyping 9
Hiring & recruitment 6
Processes & SOPs 5
  • V1 code is throwaway — use the stack you know best
  • Enterprise customers paying six figures trigger real engineering rigour
  • Stop coding earlier; hiring compounds faster than writing features yourself

Founder interviews

Podcast

Ben Horowitz on building through chaos with no recipe

Founders October 8, 2018


Founder interviews 10
Resilience & grit 7
Hiring & recruitment 6
  • Determination beats intelligence as the defining founder trait.
  • Reframing 'what if we go bankrupt?' unlocked the pivot to Opsware.
  • Spend zero time on past mistakes; all of it on what you can do now.

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