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# A new publication from First Round: Applied Intelligence

[When Should You Stop Clinging to Product and Hire Your First PM? Advice From a Founder and CPO](https://review.firstround.com/when-to-hire-your-first-pm/ "When Should You Stop Clinging to Product and Hire Your First PM? Advice From a Founder and CPO")

Saumil Mehta outlines a framework for early-stage founders on timing the first product manager hire.

October 30, 2025

[The 100 Best Bits of Advice from 10 Years of First Round Review](https://review.firstround.com/100-best-bits-of-advice-from-first-round-review/ "The 100 Best Bits of Advice from 10 Years of First Round Review")

We combed The Review archives for a special compilation of the 100 very best advice published on our digital pages over the last 10 years from folks...

November 16, 2023

[Not Another VC Blog - First Round Review](https://review.firstround.com/not-another-vc-blog-first-round-review/ "Not Another VC Blog - First Round Review")

Introducing The First Round Review, the first VC-run publication providing actionable insights from the top people in technology.

February 05, 2015

[So You Want to Hire a Forward Deployed Engineer: How to Know If You Need One and How to Get the Role Right](https://review.firstround.com/so-you-want-to-hire-a-forward-deployed-engineer/ "So You Want to Hire a Forward Deployed Engineer: How to Know If You Need One and How to Get the Role Right")

Founders and operators who’ve successfully built forward deployed engineering teams share the nuances that make this idiosyncratic role work, along...

February 24, 2026

[Build Products That Solve Real Problems With This Lightweight JTBD Framework](https://review.firstround.com/build-products-that-solve-real-problems-with-this-lightweight-jtbd-framework/ "Build Products That Solve Real Problems With This Lightweight JTBD Framework")

Drawing on her experiences building products at Lumosity, Oculus, and Facebook's New Product Experimentation group, Sunita Mohanty shares a...

January 14, 2021

[23 Tactical Company Building Lessons, Learned From Scaling Stripe & Notion](https://review.firstround.com/23-tactical-company-building-lessons-learned-from-scaling-stripe-and-notion/ "23 Tactical Company Building Lessons, Learned From Scaling Stripe & Notion")

From Stripe to Notion, Cristina Cordova has worked on some of the biggest products in tech. She shares tactical tidbits on what she’s learned about...

March 22, 2022

[The Founder Dating Playbook – Here’s the Process I Used to Find My Co-Founder](https://review.firstround.com/the-founder-dating-playbook-heres-the-process-i-used-to-find-my-co-founder/ "The Founder Dating Playbook – Here’s the Process I Used to Find My Co-Founder")

Gloria Lin opens up about her pre-founder journey, from how to find a co-founder and early conversations, to the set of 50 questions she prototyped to...

September 30, 2019

[Firsthand: Seven Years Inside Applied Intuition, the Quietly Dominant Physical AI Company](https://review.firstround.com/firsthand-applied-intuition/ "Firsthand: Seven Years Inside Applied Intuition, the Quietly Dominant Physical AI Company")

I joined Applied Intuition as a new-grad engineer back in early 2019, when it was just a handful of us working above a bar on Murphy Ave in Sunnyvale...

June 03, 2026