If you’re involved in a startup or want to to be, this free service provides a searchable database of curated, high-quality advice about all aspects of company building. There are 10,000+ vetted articles available written by some of the biggest players in the tech scene, which are organized, tagged & designed to provide the right information when you most need it.
FirstSearch was recently launched by First Round, a company with presence in San Francisco, Philadelphia & New York, that has been dedicated the last 4 years to helping founding teams get 1st round financing. Over this time it has conducted dozens of events every year & has had 500+ tech leaders attend their last CEO summit.
Startup founders & employees often have to learn how to do a great number of disjointed, unrelated things, often without previous knowledge or experience. Tasks like setting policies, raising money, hiring talent, determining compensation, building a product roadmap, training new employees… & on & on. Googling this info is not a good option, as most of what you’ll find is misleading, hastily written articles & marketing self-promotion pieces.
FirstSearch is aimed at providing a centralized place where you can get the best advice about all pertinent aspects of building tech companies. According to the company, the community of experts that have referenced or created articles is pretty huge & a software platform has been put in place to dig out the content with the best quality & credibility.
First Round claims that Content is searchable across 260+ roles, topics & disciplines. You can see & build curated lists, bookmark & share advice from these articles easily as well as discover Content shared by other users & hundreds of industry experts.
To access FirstSearch, just go to its Website, where you’ll see a list of featured articles from industry leaders & a search box. A list of popular topics is shown. At the time of writing this article, it was: Product, Design, Engineering, Fundraising, Company Building, Finance, Management, People Operations & Recruiting.
The page also lists favorite articles from tech leaders, like Heidi Williams, CTO & Co-founder at tEQuitable & Todd Jackson, VP of Product at Dropbox.
– This is a startup profile based on publicly available material & not a review –
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