📶 129 Best Links of the Year (2022)

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We read a lot, and every week we recap the best things we read that week.

Here are the 129 best links we've found on the internet this year.

1. 📋 David Perrell’s Laws of the Internet

2. 🍀 How to engineer luck

3. 📈 A billionaire’s key to investing well

4. 👥 Why you need to develop community-building skills

5. ⚡️ Ultimate guide on NFT collection launches

6. 🛠 Ultimate list of community tools and software

7. 📈 How freemium products can improve their free-to-paid conversion

8. 🔮 Bankless’ 2022 predictions

9. 👀 A case against the Web3 narrative

10. ⏳ The case against killing time

11. 💵 How the best online communities monetize

12. 🧵 The unbundling of venture capital

13. 📝 Rich Barton’s playbook to winning through data content loops

14. 🛠 SaaS tools for your startups

15. 📶 A list of small compounding skills to set you apart

16. $ Billion Dollar Creator

17. 💪 How durability determines a company’s value

18. ✍️ Seven things that will make you a better writer

19. 🤔 Contrarian take on DAOs

20. 🧠 20 lessons from analyzing some of the best product-led growth companies

21. 🔎 Breaking down our funnel

22. 🔮 The community income opportunity

23. 🏷 How to evaluate business on where they spend money to acquire customers

24. 💰 25 ideas to make money

25. 💡 Five ways to start printing money online

26. 📆 How the CEO of Levels spent his first two years building a billion-dollar company

27. 🙏 Massive list of tax advantages to owning a small business

28. 💡 Unconventional advice for founders

29. ⬇️ Five tactics to lower CAC

30. 🆓 Deciding on adding a free version of your product

31. 😇 Breaking down AngelList as a business

32. 🔟 10 lessons from great businesses (The Generalist)

33. 📈 Deep dive on product-led growth trends

34. 🔥 Virgil Abloh's free playbook on building and growing a brand

35. 💯 100 rules (Dru Riley)

36. 🙏 First Round put together an angel directory for founders

37. 🔎 22 emerging manager secrets to raising your first fund

38. 📈 Eight principles to navigate wealth creation

39. 💰 58 lessons about money

40. 🖌 This massive Airtable of creator economy companies

41. 🧪 How to validate your idea

42. ☁️ 2022 State of the Cloud

43. 👉 Nine tricks of effective leaders

44. 📈 Ways to grow a SaaS product

45. 🔥 How to make your brand stand out

46. 🥇Why winners keep winning

47. 🧠 103 bits of advice

48. 📈 Four steps to flip a SaaS in 18 months

49. 📧 14 things you can do make your newsletter better

50. ➡️ 21 ways to improve your site's conversion

51. 💰 Differences between the rich and the wealthy

52. 🆓 How to differentiate when everything is becoming free

53. 💰 Real-time valuation data from AngelList

54. 👉 Why being "realistic" is irrational

55. 🔥 How to structure a SaaS purchase

56. 💲 22 truths about making money and tax avoidance

57. 🔥 50 brutally honest takeaways about venture capital

58. 🏁 3,163 case studies on how to start a business

59. 📩 50 email marketing hacks to level up your content

60. 🧹 Deep dive on curation-as-a-service

61. 🔟 10 ideas to make you think

62. 🕸 Hub-and-spoke network effects

63. 📋 How founders can improve their relationship with VCs

64. 🧠 15 business resources that will teach you more than any class

65. 💰 Tool for businesses to see an estimate of their real-time valuation

66. 📶 Tiny Seed's investment thesis

67. 🤔 The future of Web3 use cases

68. 🖌 2022 State of the Creator Economy

69. 🎯 Great SaaS landing pages

70. 🧠 Deep dive on first principles thinking

71. 📶 Breaking down USV's success

72. 📈 How to think through growth hacking

73. 👀 The ultimate collection of marketing secrets

74. 👉 43 life lessons

75. 🧠 10 lessons from a decade of vertical software investing

76. ➡️ Takeaways from roasting 200 landing pages

77. 👨‍💻 2022 state of independent SaaS

78. 📈 ConvertKit shares all of their SaaS metrics publicly

79. 💲 11 strategies to level up your pricing

80. 📶 Growth tools, predictions, and opportunities

81. ❌ All the mistakes we’ve made running an internet business

82. 🧠 10 timeless lessons from great venture capital funds

83. 📊 How to measure cohort retention

84. 🧮 How to optimize your conversion rate

85. 📩 16 best VC newsletters to subscribe to

86. 🆓 Deep dive on freemium strategies

87. 📝 Six takeaways from 250+ pieces of content

88. 🔮 50 lessons from the next era of venture capital investors

89. 🤝 VC fund decks that close LPs

90. 🧽 Deep dive on curation-as-a-service

91. 🔟 Ten ideas to think about

92. 📶 List of growth tips

93. ⍰ Thoughts on pointless jobs and meaningless careers

94. 📶 Growth hacks for B2B SaaS companies

95. 📺 Morning Brew's best marketing guides and articles

96. 💰 Personal finance and education for the 2020s

97. 📩 Nine ways to make money with your email list

98. 🏦 Deep dive on Softbank and how it became what it is today

99. 📚 Thoughts on educating kids in today's world

100. 🔥 Creating products that stick and how to do it

101. 🤝 14 of the top VCs in Raleigh-Durham

102. 👀 Everything is a security

103. 📄 Rules for SaaS pricing

104. 📺 The strategy behind why software is eating media

105. 🤝 Breakdown of shared earnings agreements

106. 📈 Advice from HubSpot, Ahrefs, and Weblow on content-driven growth

107. 👀 How Zapier earned 5 million unique viewers / month through programmatic SEO

108. ➡️ Huge list of indie SaaS creators looking for recognition

109. 🚀 34 places to launch your startup

110. 💰 We're running our third annual VC comp survey

111. 💯 100 simple truths

112. 🎰 The generative AI index

113. 🔮 Lessons from ten years of losing on the internet

114. 🧲 Deep dive on lead magnets

115. 🤯 You can now use AI to create ads from any URL

116. 📶 How YC wins

117. 🧠 The state of SPV investing

118. 📈 Benchmarks and advice for increasing your activation rate

119. 🔨 Five steps to building a web app without writing a line of code

120. 👀 14 tools to help you steal idea from competitors

121. 📈 OpenView's 2022 product benchmark report

122. 🔎 What to watch in AI

123. 💰 Generating more sales during a recession

124. 🔮 The future of sales and what it means for businesses

125. 📓 The online business tax playbook

126. 🚀 A step-by-step guide to building your company's strategy docs

127. 📶 Confluence’s 2022 Tech Stack

128. 🚩 VC Red Flag Checklist

129. 📺 Endless Media

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