A Founder's Guide To Taking Advice: Map out your advice network — for decision superpowers

Hey PH! I'm a former founder, now on the content team at NFX, a seed-stage VC in San Francisco. Our managing partners are former founders and regularly share advice with startup founders across the world — it's a huge part of their day-to-day. One of our managing partners, James Currier, is a 5x founder and deeply understands both sides of startup advice — the give and take. He has advised companies from Lyft, Doordash, Patreon, and Poshmark. He recently published an essay sharing a framework that founders can use when taking advice. There are 4 key areas to navigating advice — mastering them will give you an unfair advantage. I built theadviceguide.com to capture his lessons and share a worksheet that you can use to map out your network of advisors. I didn't realize it until speaking with James but taking advice is a skill. We hope the essay and worksheet will help you sharpen this non-obvious founder skill. Comment below with your feedback and any questions. We truly hope you'll find this timely and useful! - Kyle, James, and the NFX team