Tim Huelskamp

expert

Co-founder/CEO 1440 Media

Chicago, IL

Expert Bio

Co-founder/CEO, 1440 Media. Business model, startup, & food culture enthusiast, angel investor.

Education

Boston College – Carroll School of Management, BS, Cum Laude.

Press

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Tim's top recommendations
101 (5) Analytics (2) Board (1) Ideas (2) Investing (3) Marketing/Growth (4) Marketplaces (4) Minimum Viable Product (MVP) (4) Network effect (3) Newsletters (3) Product (2) Raising Capital (6) Sales (1) Team (12) Trends (1) Venture Capital (3)
Famous essay on starting companies from Paul Graham, founder of the world's best incubator YCombinator How to Start a Startup
101
Essay from arguably the world's best VC on the importance of product, market & team blog.pmarca.com: The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 4: The only thing that matters
101
The best 101/overview doc I've seen on the web that lays out all the necessary... Startup Playbook
101
The first 100 days of a startup class at Stanford, from former Y Combinator (world's... How and Why to Start A Startup – Sam Altman & Dustin Moskovitz – CS183F
101
101 video on OKRs, the reporting/measurement framework used by many of the world's leading companies How Google sets goals: OKRs
Analytics
Benchmark of retention data for near any category of business, spent years looking for this... What is good retention – Issue 29
Analytics
Insights on how to run an effective board meeting from one of the world's best... The Board Of Directors: Board Meetings – AVC
Board
Great roundup of best resources on developing startup ideas How to find great startup ideas
Ideas
Famous essay from VC Chris Dixon - many of the best products start as toys... The next big thing will start out looking like a toy
Ideas
101 with one of my favorite public company investors - Cathie Wood - who walks... Cathie Wood – Investing in Innovation – [Invest Like the Best, EP.97]
Investing
Archive including all of Warren Buffett's famed annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letters, a treasure trove... Shareholder Letters
Investing
Great article on Amazon's trading history since inception, which details the importance having conviction and... Amazon’s IPO at 20: That Amazing Return You Didn’t Earn
Investing
101 on "jobs to be done", a marketing & product framework used by many of... What is Jobs to be Done (JTBD)?
Marketing/Growth
101 on the holy grail of growth - growth loops - from Reforge, the best... Growth Loops are the New Funnels — Reforge
Marketing/Growth
Excellent link round-up on how to build a growth team from the world's best incubator,... Growth Guide: How to Set Up, Staff and Scale a Growth Program
Marketing/Growth
How to build a growth team from Andrew Chen, ex-uber Chief growth officer and current... How to build a growth team – lessons from Uber, Hubspot, and others (50 slides)
Marketing/Growth
One of the bibles of marketplaces, must read for any founder working on a marketplace A Guide to Marketplaces: Third Edition – Version One
Marketplaces
3 piece set on how to build enduring marketplaces from Sarah Tavel, one of the... The Hierarchy of Marketplaces — Introduction and Level 1
Marketplaces
A compilation of the best marketplace essays from VC firm a16z Required Reading for Marketplace Entrepreneurs – Andreessen Horowitz
Marketplaces
A playbook/bible for launching marketplaces businesses from one my favorite growth experts - Lenny -... How to Kickstart and Scale a Marketplace Business
Marketplaces
Understand the concept of product market fit but unsure how to measure if you have... Rahul Vohra Shares Superhuman’s Product Market Fit Framework
Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
Need to develop a product quickly? Check out Google Ventures' design sprint framework, used by... The Design Sprint — GV
Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
MVP 101 from the godfather of minimum viable product, Eric Reis Minimum Viable Product: a guide
Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
Even before Product Market Fit, is PZF (Product Zeitgeist Fit) - the massive advantage of... Product Zeitgeist Fit: A Cheat Code for Spotting and Building the Next Big Thing – Andreessen Horowitz
Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
Fantastic episode of my favorite business podcast on network effect from the world's leading expert,... Bill Gurley – All Things Business and Investing – [Invest Like the Best, EP.137]
Network effect
Video 101 on network effect, what it means and how to achieve it Whiteboard Breakdown: What Are Network Effects?
Network effect
The historical power of network effect - estimates 70% of startup value has come from... 70 Percent of Value in Tech is Driven by Network Effects
Network effect
Fantastic market study on the widespread adoption of newsletters, packed with data The Resurgence and Importance of Email Newsletters
Newsletters
Insights on strategies to building a paid newsletter from one of my favorite growth experts undefined
Newsletters
Interesting look at how paid newsletter The Dispatch drives conversion from free to paid users The Dispatch surpassed $1 million in revenue by being newsletters-and-podcasts first and taking it slow
Newsletters
Playbook on how to build sticky, highly-engaged products The Hierarchy of Engagement, expanded
Product
Famous essay from Slack CEO on building products people want & selling the innovation &... We Don’t Sell Saddles Here
Product
101 Essay on how to raise money from Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator -... How to Raise Money
Raising Capital
Repository of example pitchdecks from some of the world's leading startups All the Public Startup Pitch Decks in One Place
Raising Capital
Tips from Linkedin founder & current VC Reid Hoffman on pitching to VCs What I Wish I Knew Before Pitching LinkedIn to VCs
Raising Capital
Guide on how to raise a Series A financing from YCombinator, the best incubator in... YC’s New Guide to Raising a Series A
Raising Capital
101 video on building & scaling sales organizations from Y Combinator, the world's best startup... How to Sell by Tyler Bosmeny
Sales
15 methods for increasing velocity at companies, as there are 2 types of companies "the... Increasing velocity
Team
Excelllent set of interview questions from some of the best startup execs in the world 40 Favorite Interview Questions from Some of the Sharpest Folks We Know
Team
Great essay on actionable ways to become insanely well-connected Networking Advice on How to Become Insanely Well-Connected
Team
Business growing? Be sure to "level up" your team - overview of how to scale... This Is How Startups “Level Up” After Raising Money
Team
Famed internet analyst turned VC Mary Meeker's annual report on internet trends Internet Trends 2019
Trends
Data highlighting the "power law curve" of venture capital deals, 60% of returns in the... Benedict Evans on Twitter: “VC maths. https://t.co/0OXxiNcKza” / Twitter
Venture Capital
Excellent 101 on the history of venture capital A history of venture capital lebret – vers 1.1
Venture Capital
Bessemer Ventures (arguably the oldest US VC) keeps tabs on their biggest misses (Google, Apple,... Anti Portfolio
Venture Capital

Tim's Bookshelf

Here you'll find more content, handpicked by Tim, on non-expert subjects.

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101 on DeFi, or Decentralized Finance Crypto Research, Data, and Tools

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Bitcoin 101 Bitcoin for the Open-Minded Skeptic

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power of plants! Timelapse Videos Show How Much Our Houseplants Move in a Day | Moss and Fog

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Letters as US presidents leave office The Letters That Outgoing Presidents Wrote to Their Successors

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Excellent overview of polarization of news sources across the world Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

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Fascinating cosmic images Login • Instagram

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always strike when the iron is hot Strike When The Iron Is Hot – AVC

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This site aggregates many of the best live-feed nature cams throughout the world Alaska Bear Cam – Lower Brooks River, Katmai National Park | Explore.org

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Search for the identity of a man, whose final seconds—captured in a photograph—encapsulate the visceral... The Falling Man

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9/11 - phone calls from passenger on Flight 93 to his wife before taking the... tyler hogge on Twitter: “4 phone calls from Tom Burnett to his wife Deena on September 11, 2001. Hero. https://t.co/Q4Pzp03uen” / Twitter

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In the days leading up to Lebron's "The Decision", Cleveland came together to create an... Cleveland City – We Are Lebron [Stay Lebron Official Song]

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200 years of human progress in an inforgraphic led by Bill Gates Bill Gates Shares His ‘Favorite Infographic’ That Shows 200 Years Of Human Progress

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Fascinating data visualization of changing diets by country over time The Changing American Diet

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Fascinating data visualization of the size of the universe Neal.fun

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Excellent 101 on racial inequality in the US, in Harvard Business School case format https://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/uploads/content/African_American_Inequality_in_the_United_States_(HBS_Case).pdf

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Jeff Bezos’ opening statement in front of Congress in 2020. Amazed by his unrelenting focus... Statement by Jeff Bezos to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary

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Blue-chip ratio in college football, only teams that sign the best recruits can ever win... Blue-Chip Ratio 2020: The 15 teams who can win a national title

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Bill Simmons article on why sports teams are valued incredibly high - they're essentially invaluable... The World’s Most Exclusive Club

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Interactive website detailing thousands of the earth's minerals British & Exotic Mineralogy

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Election histroian Allan Lichtman details his framework for successfully predicting presidential election outcomes He Predicted a Trump Win in 2016. What’s His Forecast For 2020? | NYT Opinion

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Awesome map pinpointing optimal time to visit fall foliage in US states Plan Your Socially Distanced Fall Getaway With This Peak Foliage Prediction Map

Posted by Tim Huelskamp 4 years ago

Video roundup of Mars pictures from NASA's Curiosity Rover Curiosity Mars Rover Snaps 1.8 Billion-Pixel Panorama (narrated video)

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The 100 best movie quotes of the century from Thrillist The 100 Greatest Movie Quotes of the 21st Century

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Actionable tips on how to become a better conversationalist How to become a better conversationalist

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Tips on how to fall asleep anywhere from a military expert How to Fall Asleep Anywhere, Anytime, According to Military Veterans

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Meet Buff cat, my favorite animal on the internet The Internet Is Loving This Buff Cat

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Interactive map through time showing what cities looked like on earth over billions of years Ancient Earth

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My favorite SNL skit, a modern-take on Baby It's Cold Outside Jimmy Fallon Baby it’s cold outside

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Fascinating look at how the most profilic art thief robbed nearly 200 museums The Secrets of the World’s Greatest Art Thief

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Visual interaction detailing the destructive floods of 2019 The Great Flood of 2019: A Complete Picture of a Slow-Motion Disaster

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Fascinating history of the chicago style hot dog. A journey through immigration, entreprenruship, and the... A History of the Esteemed Chicago-Style Hot Dog

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Conan O'Brien's hilarious & thoughtful 2000 speech to Harvard grads about following your dreams Conan Addresses The Harvard Class Of 2000

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hilarious designer who crowdsources requests to alter pictures HOME | James Fridman

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Awesome list of ice breakers for team meetings or any in-person event ICEBREAKERS, via The Art of Noticing by Rob Walker

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Sexy radishes, big-time LOL The World’s Greatest Gallery of Seductive Radishes

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Thought-provoking piece on removal of statues from former NOLA mayor Mitch Landrieu Opinion | Mitch Landrieu’s Speech on the Removal of Confederate Monuments in New Orleans

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Explore the rise (and fall) of baby names over time Baby Names Popularity – NameVoyager: Baby Name Wizard Graph of Most Popular Baby Names

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The 3.5% rule - how 3.5% of the population can drive change in the world The ‘3.5% rule’: How a small minority can change the world

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