Substacks recommended by Ben Yoskovitz

Recommended by Ben Yoskovitz

random deep dives into whatever's capturing my attention. wandering thoughts on the timeless patterns that drive commerce, culture, and human behavior.

Deep dives on different brands, giving you an inside look into how they scale & differentiate. Lots of powerful lessons to learn.

- Ben Yoskovitz

Growth with Sean Ellis

Sean Ellis, author of Hacking Growth, writes about driving sustainable growth through data, experimentation, and deep customer understanding to optimize teams and turn product-market fit into lasting success.

Do you want to grow your business? Follow Sean's work / writing.

- Ben Yoskovitz

Wildfire Labs Substack

By Todd Gagne

This blog is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs achieve their dreams and bring their vision to market.

A succinct, pointed lens into building startups. They provide practical examples to help founders think through their businesses.

- Ben Yoskovitz

GTM Vault: Art of Go-to-Market 🛠️

By Rick Koleta

GTM strategies, career insights, and operator interviews—plus access to pro-level courses and advisory from Rick Koleta.

In-depth, action-oriented podcasts focused on go-to-market & growth. Well worth listening to (and reading the summaries too).

- Ben Yoskovitz

Venture Curator

By VC's Newsletter From Venture Crew

Get Insider Tips on Startups & Venture Capital. Join 41,000+ founders & investors for Exclusive Insights, for free.

Great content, in-depth analysis of everything happening in VC and StartupLand.

- Ben Yoskovitz

Wannabe Angels

By Harry and Colin

We're the JV team, and we are interviewing and learning from the best investors around.

Angel investing is awesome, but it's not easy. Wannabe Angels helps investors (or soon-to-be-investors) learn from the best.

- Ben Yoskovitz

OnlyCFO's Newsletter

Weekly newsletter on software industry metrics, finance, strategy and operations. What you need to know to be a successful leader.

Numbers matter. Whether you work at a startup or a large corporation, metrics--including financial ones--are critical to understand. OnlyCFO does an awesome job of breaking things down with tons of details.

- Ben Yoskovitz

Leah’s ProducTea

By ProducTea with Leah

Actionable B2B (Product-led) Growth and Senior Leadership advice for founders and C?Os in tech who want to connect their product to revenue at scale. Bringing growth and product together with 25 years of operator and executive experience.

Awesome newsletter that goes into many product-related deep dives.

- Ben Yoskovitz

Signature Block

By Weekend Fund

A newsletter for emerging fund managers with advice from experienced GPs

Unique content for investors raising funds (there isn't a lot of quality content on this topic out there.)

- Ben Yoskovitz

The Product Compass

By Paweł

The #1 AI and PM newsletter. Actionable tips, resources, and step-by-step playbooks to learn by doing. Improve product sense and AI intuition.

Pawel is producing some of the best quality and most detailed content on product management out there. Great read!

- Ben Yoskovitz

Founder Fridays

By Kyle Westaway

Helping startup founders and operators scale smarter.

A quick weekly dose of practical guidance on a variety of topics relevant for startups.

- Ben Yoskovitz

Take Rate | Marketplaces

By Colin Gardiner

Startup and Marketplace Musings for Operators by Operators

Great resource for understanding the inner-workings of marketplace businesses.

- Ben Yoskovitz

Kyle Poyar’s Growth Unhinged

Revealing the playbooks and hidden tactics behind today's best startups. Join 70,000+ weekly readers for real-life growth advice, playbooks and case studies.

Kyle's writing on growth, PLG, etc. is insanely good. Detailed, visual and 100% worth reading every single time.

- Ben Yoskovitz

Mostly metrics

By CJ Gustafson

Business insights you can actually understand. Trusted by the world’s best CFOs, GTM experts, and tech investors.

Fantastic deep dives on business and operation metrics. Must read for startups of all stages.

- Ben Yoskovitz

The Practical Innovator's Guide to Customer-Centric Growth

By Mike Boysen

There's only so much you can learn about how-to perform a method from people that don't really want you to know how-to anything. This blog is about applying the method to real-world problems. The how-to is going away soon anyway.

Mike is THE expert on JTBD, which is an important innovation framework for founders and others to build meaningful products and businesses.

- Ben Yoskovitz

Lenny's Newsletter

By Lenny Rachitsky

A weekly advice column about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career.

Literally the best content for building a startup (at any stage.) By a good friend, Lenny Rachitsky.

- Ben Yoskovitz

Focused Chaos

Recommended by Ben Yoskovitz