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Creating an employee-friendly startup share option scheme

Nov 9, 2022 by Grace McKenzie

Creating an employee-friendly startup share option scheme

Nov 9, 2022 by Grace McKenzie

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Recent Posts

Tell me about features, not benefits

Nov 2, 2022 by James Hawkins

How we made something people want

Oct 20, 2022 by James Hawkins

What motivates me as a CEO

Oct 7, 2022 by James Hawkins

All the cool things we built at our Rome hackathon

Oct 6, 2022 by Ian Vanagas

How (and why) our marketing team uses PostHog

Sep 28, 2022 by Andy Vandervell

Startups, stop treating engineers like a different species

Sep 12, 2022 by Charles Cook

How to run a transparent startup

Aug 31, 2022 by James Hawkins

Benchmarking the impact of session recording on performance

Aug 31, 2022 by Mathew Pregasen

How to plan a killer company offsite in just 8 weeks

Aug 17, 2022 by Grace McKenzie

What we learned about hiring from our first five employees

Aug 16, 2022 by Andy Vandervell

Speeding up PostHog builds with Depot

Aug 5, 2022 by Kyle Galbraith, Jacob Gillespie

Remote companies can be too asynchronous

Jul 20, 2022 by James Hawkins

Why infrastructure is a competitive advantage for us

Jul 20, 2022 by Tim Glaser

The magic of a Hacker News Pre-Mortem

Jun 30, 2022 by James Hawkins

The really important job interview questions engineers should ask (but don't)

Jun 22, 2022 by James Hawkins

Our new objective: Nail Self Serve

Jun 10, 2022 by James Hawkins

Why we ditched ‘talk to sales’ for transparent pricing

Jun 1, 2022 by Simon Fisher

A non-coders thoughts on ‘Everybody Codes’ - Part Two

May 27, 2022

Why I ditched Google Analytics and Mixpanel for PostHog

May 26, 2022 by Colin Wren

Reflecting on YC, 2 years on

May 18, 2022 by James Hawkins

Using Google Analytics was deemed 'illegal' in some EU countries. We built a microsite in 48 hours to capitalize on the news.

May 9, 2022 by Cory Watilo

The ops toolkit for early-stage startups

May 4, 2022 by Charles Cook

Counterintuitive lessons about our pricing

Mar 17, 2022 by James Hawkins

Using Gatsby and Puppeteer to create dynamic Open Graph images

Mar 3, 2022 by Cory Watilo

I used to think you don't need product people. I was wrong.

Feb 18, 2022 by James Hawkins

HostHogs - free drinks, free pizza and frequently asked questions

Feb 15, 2022 by Joe Martin

Solving the mystery of PostHog’s missing session recordings

Feb 11, 2022 by Rick Marron

How I learned to love feedback loops (and make better products)

Feb 4, 2022 by Neil Kakkar

Things I learned last year

Jan 9, 2022 by James Hawkins

"How come your website is so nice?"

Dec 9, 2021 by James Hawkins

Cancer and revenue - the latest board meeting

Nov 12, 2021 by James Hawkins

How we turned ClickHouse into our event mansion

Nov 6, 2021 by James Greenhill

How we designed the PostHog mascot

Oct 7, 2021 by Lottie Coxon

How to seed, grow, and scale Developer Relations (and how we're doing it at PostHog)

Sep 30, 2021 by Phil Leggetter

How we rebranded PostHog in four weeks - a postmortem

Sep 28, 2021 by Cory Watilo

How PostHog uses Wren to offset carbon emissions during offsites

Sep 14, 2021 by Joe Martin

How to choose job titles in your early stage startup

Sep 14, 2021 by Mo Shehu

The importance of dogfooding - Why product managers should use their product as much as their users

Sep 13, 2021 by Marcus Hyett

Optimize for not breaking up with your co-founder

Sep 10, 2021 by James Hawkins

What's the true role of a product team at an engineering-led organization?

Aug 26, 2021 by Paolo D'Amico

Winning from the back - late mover advantage

Aug 25, 2021 by James Hawkins

Introducing Joe Martin - Our first Product Marketer

Aug 6, 2021 by Mo Shehu

Content marketing strategy for devtool companies - How we do it at PostHog

Aug 6, 2021 by Mo Shehu

Introducing Phil Leggetter, our new head of Developer Relations

Jul 21, 2021 by Mo Shehu

YC adds PostHog to top valued companies for July 2021

Jul 2, 2021 by Mo Shehu

How PostHog's new VP focused the company on nailing funnels in his first week

Jul 1, 2021 by Marcus Hyett

A non-coder's thoughts on an 'Everybody Codes' culture

Jun 25, 2021 by Joe Martin

How we do hiring & HR at PostHog

Jun 23, 2021 by Mo Shehu

How we do customer support at our open source devtool company

Jun 15, 2021 by Mo Shehu

Why we raised a $15m Series B ahead of schedule

Jun 14, 2021 by Joe Martin

PostHog raises $15 million Series B for open source product analytics

Jun 10, 2021 by Joe Martin

Writing for developers

May 20, 2021 by James Hawkins

An engineer's guide to picking a cofounder

Apr 28, 2021 by Mo Shehu

How we do meetings at PostHog

Apr 19, 2021

How we justified quitting our jobs and financing PostHog early on

Mar 9, 2021 by James Hawkins

A story about pivots

Jan 21, 2021

PostHog raises $12 million in funding led by GV and Y Combinator

Dec 17, 2020

Building an all-remote company from scratch

Sep 1, 2020

How we raised $3M for an open source project

Jun 4, 2020 by James Hawkins

After the HN launch

Mar 1, 2020 by James Hawkins

Pivot to PostHog

Feb 25, 2020 by James Hawkins

Moving to San Francisco

Feb 24, 2020 by James Hawkins

The YC Interview

Jan 1, 2020 by James Hawkins

The time before YC

Sep 1, 2019 by James Hawkins