Welcome to the Startup Archive!

The Startup Archive began as a fun side project to archive the world’s best startup advice for the next generation of founders. And in the past year, its reach has grown to millions of impressions per month, with some of the most influential people in the world following it.

If you subscribe to the free newsletter, we will send the best piece of startup advice we can find directly to your inbox every day. Every post takes about 1-2 minutes to read, and it’s 100% free.

Here are a few of my favorite insights to give you a better idea of the writing you can expect:

• Brian Armstrong’s best advice for a pre-product/market fit startup

• Patrick Collison on the importance of beauty and craftmanship when building products

• Keith Rabois tells the story of Elon Musk observing interns waiting in line for coffee at SpaceX

• Mark Zuckerberg to new-hire Aditya Agarwal : “If I can build Facebook you can build a search engine”

• Peter Thiel on the importance of starting with a small market

• Paul Graham: the secret to growing really fast is starting with a “small, intense fire”

• Airbnb founder Brian Chesky on designing an amazing user experience

• Sam Altman on getting your first 100 users

• Andrej Karpathy explains what makes Elon Musk unique

• Elon Musk’s warning to startup founders: "it can be very painful for several years”

Also we’ve recently a new Op-Ed platform for the world’s best founders called The Founders’ Tribune. If you’d like to receive the single best essay we can find every Sunday, subscribe to that newsletter here.

- Mike

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