Hey! ✌️
My name is Andreas Klinger.
I was founding team & CTO of Product Hunt, VPE of CoinList, Head of Remote at AngelList, and CTO at On Deck.
I also angel invest via Prototype Capital 🦾.
I was lucky to learn from a lot of people throughout my career.
On this page I try to summarize some learnings.
PS: If you find typos or got ideas how to improve articles, feel free to send me a pull request
🇪🇺 Dear Europe, please wake up – eu/acc
68,144 viewsEurope is special to me as I consider myself a proud European, but damn we need to talk. Europe please wake up.
Read more...🇮🇳 India in 2024
17,237 viewsIn February I made my first business trip to India. Three weeks deep in the Indian tech ecosystem. My summary is simple: I feel like the world needs an update how we view India
Read more...Mindshare 🧠
319 viewsThe hard part now, is to get mindshare with customers.
Read more...- 2023
Everyone is doing 1on1s wrong. I think.
6,266 viewsOur calendars are packed with meetings. We communicate mostly in 1on1on1on1 trains. Nobody is happy. Nothing gets done. Can we fix this?
Read more... 000
438 viewsA Sci-Fi Short Story
Read more...Getting Old
1,468 views👴🏼
Read more...- 2022
First-time fundraising is hell - maybe this helps 💰
4,065 viewsIts easy to start fundraising, but most people struggle closing their round. Especially now. Why? I try to give a few mental models and a bit tactical advice.
Read more... Q-Codes; Or… Stop repeating yourself ⌨️
1,380 viewsI use apple’s keyboard “text” shortcodes to setup a lot of things i have to type regularly. It’s easily one of my favorite productivity hacks!
Read more...How i make investment decisions 🏝
8,138 viewsThe goal of this article is to break down how i make investment decisions in the hope that it helps founders to see their fundraising effort from the “other side”.
Read more...Managing people 🤯
125,999 viewsI believe almost all first-time founders burn out their first employees – maybe this article helps you avoiding this
Read more...- 2021
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4,682 viewsOver the years i met several people that left quite an impact on me and in many cases helped me along the way. I tried to summariz...
Read more... Joining hypergrowth startups 😬
17,049 viewsI am writing this for a friend joining an early-stage breakout startup (year 2; $200M+ valuation). I wrote it as bullet points as...
Read more...- 2020
ADHD 🧠
1,836 viewsI want to preface this by saying that I have only a mild case of ADHD, eg I don’t take any medication. I get regularly asked about...
Read more... How I think about Code Management
5,257 viewsYou might have the worst codebase in the world. It was written by people who had no standards or didn’t care about code quality. H...
Read more...Quick tips for hiring remotely
1,536 viewsYou are most likely already experienced with hiring so think of this more as a quick FYI focusing on hiring remotely… What issues...
Read more...Close your office. Now. How to operate your startup under lock-down.
5,209 viewsWhat a week. The US declared the state of emergency. Many leading startups closed their office. And I expect that all startups in...
Read more...- 2019
#fyi: How founders can avoid drive-by-management
9,982 viewsSuggestions by founders, managers, or anyone with authority in a startup, might often be misunderstood as directions or decisions...
Read more... Refactoring larger legacy codebases
2,060 viewsThis article is based on a comment of mine to a HackerNews question. Thought it might be useful to explain it here a bit more in d...
Read more...A model that’s mental
2,895 viewsMaybe… This anxiety isn’t anxiety it’s just your raw excitement that you are misunderstanding. This creeping imposter syndrome jus...
Read more...- 2018
Managing Remote Teams - A Crash Course
49,296 viewsHey folks, I haven’t been blogging for quite some time, so everything is a bit rusty for me, but i thought this article might be u...
Read more... - 2014
The simplest and most important dashboard for early stage startups.
27,301 viewsThis blogpost is part of a small series of posts that cover the basics of startup metrics. My personal goal is to help early stage...
Read more... Easy, but easy to f*ck up. 3 Rules to Setup Analytics Tools correctly.
4,891 viewsAs a consultant for analytics i see a fair share of integrations of analytics tools. One of the most common mistakes is how people...
Read more...A Primer on Startup Metrics – Which Analytics Tool to pick.
23,334 viewsAs a analytics consultant I am working with a lot of startups and help them in the topics of metrics, analytics, retention and gro...
Read more...- 2013
How to use Gmail more efficiently
391,207 viewsI usually I blog about Angellist but I have shown this “lifehack” to so many people that I thought it’s worth it’s own blogpost...
Read more... Why Lean Startup sucks for startups.
19,642 viewsIf you go to Lean Startup events you will find first time founders, consultants, accelerator managers, r&d people, enterprise intr...
Read more...AngelList is the NASDAQ of our generation.
4,528 viewsIt’s fair to say that Angellist is the most exciting (web/mobile) tech startup in 2013. Even before they launched syndicates, earl...
Read more...Drafting your first investment round.
2,778 viewsThe topic of investing is omnipresent in our startup world. Sooner or later most startup founders look for external funding. And i...
Read more...Why the future needs a brandname.
2,898 viewsThere is a disenchantment in our generation. We are still sitting on our lonely planet without space travel nor flying cars or at...
Read more...- 2012
Startup Mentoring Sessions: How to be a decent, maybe even good startup mentor.
3,768 viewsHow to be the perfect startup mentor? I don’t know. But following the best practices mentioned in this article I got personally at...
Read more... Startup Mentoring Sessions: How to get the most out of it.
7,935 viewsEveryone is doing pitch training. Almost no-one does training for the mentoring session, but this is where most startups get the m...
Read more...The Founder’s Lie About Comfort Zones
22,968 viewsThere is a lot of talk going on about the endurance and struggle that startup founders go through. How long the hours are, we all...
Read more...About the “other” Startup Hubs.
957 viewsThere is an energetic discussion going on in the Web-Tech Startup World. Each city wants to know - “Can we become the next Silicon...
Read more...Why i am leaving my own company.
3,149 viewsFortunately I was able to tell this already to many people in person. But a quick public blog post might help to clarify and simpl...
Read more...How global media communication changes in a transparent world
113 viewsThese are crowdaggregated pictures from Syria (across basically all social media channels). No media publisher inbetween. Authenti...
Read more...Peter Thiel’s Startup Class Notes as PDF
16,543 views@bgmasters created an awesome series of blog posts covering his notes of Peter Thiel’s startup class CS183. Personally i try to re...
Read more...My Addressbook? Keep it. Telephone numbers are a disgrace to our generation.
950 viewsThere is all this talk going on about Path uploading address books and privacy here privacy there. I understand the fact that Star...
Read more...Sh*t! Twitter is exciting - again!
1,596 viewsEvery epoch in the history of humanity had a raw resource that became the key to commercial success that time. Similar to companie...
Read more...The things first time founders do…
4,754 viewsLast week @robfitz asked me on short notice to join a panel at #foundersexchange about what first time founders shouldn’t do. I qu...
Read more...The unannounced updates to Facebook’s Social Plugins and how to use them!
533 viewsSince the launch of platform, Facebook has the approach of shipping features early, very early. They ship first, ask later and doc...
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