First Round Review is the content arm of First Round Capital, the early-stage VC firm. Unlike most VC content, it’s not marketing dressed as advice — the articles are genuinely long, detailed, and written for people who are actually trying to solve specific problems at fast-growing companies.
What to Expect
Deeply reported pieces on topics like hiring your first sales team, building an engineering culture, navigating founder conflict, product strategy, and the mechanics of scaling a startup. Articles often run to 5,000+ words and are built around interviews with experienced operators and founders from the First Round portfolio.
Who It’s For
Startup founders and operators who want actionable advice on the hard problems of building a company. The depth here is genuinely unusual for a VC publication — these are articles you save and return to, not skim once and forget.
Frequency: Irregular (when new long-form pieces are published)