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What founders use most, ranked by how many answers lean on it.

1. This is the rare piece that gives you the actual number instead of vibes: plan a sprint to about 80% and hold 20% back as an... Boldstart Ventures Article · 10 min read · Starting Up How engineering teams handle unplanned work Anna Debenham
2. Buffer time only works if the fires eventually get smaller, and this piece is about exactly that: how to stop reactive work... LeadDev Article · 9 min read · Starting Up How to break the cycle of firefighting LeadDev
3. This is the E-Myth idea made measurable: Levels CEO Sam Corcos logged 7,922 hours across two years into ten categories and... First Round Review Article · 18 min read · Starting Up An Exact Breakdown of How One CEO Spent His First Two Years of Company-Building Sam Corcos (as told to First Round Review)
4. The cleanest founder-written explainer of the E-Myth distinction, from a repeat founder (Pardot, exited to ExactTarget) rather... David Cummings on Startups Essay · 4 min read · Starting Up Working In the Business vs On the Business David Cummings
5. Sparks cofounded Mattermark and Holloway, so this is a founder's actual playbook, not a coach's theory. He gives you the whole... Andy Sparks (Hoo Boy) Essay · 12 min read · Starting Up Conducting a Time Audit Andy Sparks
6. This is the cleanest lightweight recipe to just start: track in 30-minute blocks against six named categories (revenue,... Founder's Best Friend Article · 10 min read · Starting Up The Founder's Time Audit: Where Your Hours Actually Go Founder's Best Friend
7. This is the closest thing to a practical runbook for making yourself unreachable for a day. The core move, Pre-Decision... On Call COO Article · 8 min read · Starting Up 5 Things Founders Never Do Before Vacation (But Should) Melissa Franks
8. India's most respected bootstrapped founder, who built Zerodha to profitability without VC money and openly caps headcount to... The South First Article · 7 min read · Starting Up Nithin Kamath of Zerodha says he had a mild stroke due to stress, poor sleep, and overworking The South First staff
9. This is the operating manual for exactly the trap you are in: it hands you a concrete recurring block (the author's own is a... Indie Hackers Article · 12 min read · Starting Up How to Build While Having a Full-Time Job James Fleischmann
10. This is the Indian proof that the nights-and-weekends path actually works: Paras Chopra kept his 50K-a-month job for a full... Inc42 Article · 9 min read · Starting Up The Wingify Story: How Paras Chopra Built an $18 Mn Bootstrapped SaaS Inc42 Media
11. Tank built Jotform (now millions of users) on nights and weekends while holding a full-time programming job, spending five... Jotform Article · 10 min read · Starting Up How to Build a Startup Without Quitting Your Day Job Aytekin Tank
12. This names the exact moment the bottleneck bites for the Anywhere Founder: right after a raise, the team has doubled and you... Able Ventures (India) Article · ~12 min read · Starting Up A Founder's Guide to Growth-Stage Leadership Planning Able Ventures
13. This is the cleanest statement of the exact skill you are missing: not ranking your list, but killing most of it. Sivers' rule... sive.rs Essay · 3 min read · Starting Up If you're not feeling 'hell yeah!' then say no Derek Sivers
14. This is the operating manual for the cut you are avoiding. Pick the single number that defines this stage, over-focus on it... Lean Analytics Article · 10 min read · Starting Up The One Metric That Matters (OMTM) Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz
15. Marqeta founder Jason Gardner describes, in his own words, being weeks from running out of cash while he 'struggled to sleep,'... Forbes Article · 12 min read · Starting Up Forget 'Crushing It,' Startup Founders Open Up About Mental Health Problems Jeff Kauflin
16. A clinical, free, no-signup stabilization guide that maps directly onto the answer: controlled breathing to break a panic... NHS (nhs.uk) Article · 8 min read · Starting Up Anxiety, fear and panic: self-help and when to get urgent help NHS
17. Feld cofounded Techstars and has ridden the full founder rollercoaster in public, and here he names the difference between a... Feld Thoughts (feld.com) Essay · 8 min read · Starting Up Encountering Depression and What It Means To Be Well Brad Feld
18. This is the clearest argument for why an information diet works. Graham shows that whatever sits at the top of your mind gets... paulgraham.com Essay · 6 min read · Starting Up The Top Idea in Your Mind Paul Graham
19. Kamath built India's largest broker without VC money and here he explains the mindset that keeps him off the daily... LinkedIn Article · 3 min read · Starting Up Nithin Kamath on why Zerodha ignores exit pressure and lets the business compound Nithin Kamath
20. This is the raw first-person account the polished frameworks leave out: a technical cofounder writing while still trapped,... Indie Hackers Article · 10 min read · Starting Up It took me two years to realize that my co-founder is toxic for me Anonymous founder
21. Espinal has watched hundreds of Seedcamp founders fight and split, and he gives you the written-down decision-rights answer... Carlos Espinal / Seedcamp Article · 15 min read · Starting Up Resolving Major Co-Founder Disputes Carlos Espinal (Seedcamp)
22. Krupit runs Trajectify solo and writes from inside the problem, not above it. He breaks solo isolation into its four real... Trajectify Article · 8 min read · Starting Up Being a Solo Founder is Lonely. Here's What to Do About It Mike Krupit
23. This is the practical companion to the theory: a first-hand playbook of specific moves for the founder who has no team and no... Indie Hackers Article · 10 min read · Starting Up Feeling Less Isolated as a Solo Founder James Fleischmann
24. The Anywhere Founder cannot fix isolation with a Slack group in another timezone: local rooms matter more here. This is an... Scholarship Track Article · 12 min read · Starting Up 25+ Communities for Budding Entrepreneurs in India Scholarship Track editorial team

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