15 Startup Newsletters for Entrepreneurs

Email newsletters are a great way to keep up to date with market trends, consumer behavior insights, business news, and other useful content to educate and inspire you throughout your entrepreneurial journey. These startup newsletters range in subject and frequency to help you find the best resources for you (and your startup’s) needs.

Cost: Free

Frequency: Weekly

Y Combinator (YC), the accelerator behind successful companies like Airbnb and DoorDash, releases a free weekly newsletter with information on events, jobs, launches, and news. It also shares valuable information for founders, such as why founders should consider taking on technical cofounders, the overnight success stories of influential startups, and tips from YC's Group Partners.

Cost: Free

Frequency: Weekly

Get your fix of startup news, podcasts, and free training with the Foundr newsletter. Primarily a magazine focused on everything startup-related, Foundr’s newsletter features exclusive news, resources, tips, and more for startups looking to gain insights into the startup ecosystem and scale their business.

Cost: Free

Frequency: Weekly

Andreessen Horowtiz’s venture capital firm, a16z, publishes several weekly startup newsletters for free. Written by experts in their field, these newsletters focus on topics like enterprise, fintech, bio and health, and consumer to name a few. This venture capital firm also offers a more generalized startup newsletter — the a16z newsletter — that compiles its most popular content as well as news and investment updates.

Cost: Free

Frequency: Weekly

The Indie Hackers Newsletter helps founders grow their business. Rather than focusing solely on industry news like most tech-focused newsletters, the Indie Hackers Newsletter serves as a resource for early stage startups to gain practical advice on how to run and scale their businesses successfully. It also keeps readers updated on emerging business trends and boasts an extensive community of founders that subscribers can leverage to build their network.

Cost: Free to $150/year 

Frequency: Weekly 

Ben’s Bites is a weekly newsletter focused on artificial intelligence (AI). It includes tech news, emerging technology trends, and exciting product launch updates as well as in-depth coverage of the business use cases for AI products. Plus, Ben’s Bites releases regular “Quick Bites” in addition to its long-from newsletter to provide updates on new releases and important information from the world of AI.

Cost: Free

Frequency: Weekly 

Investing.io is a newsletter that combines investing and startup content. Written by founder Travis Jamison, it covers more than just news in the business technology and startup world.It also covers valuable content about private businesses for sale, startup marketing strategies, and investment opportunities. Plus, readers gain access to a dedicated community of startup founders and investors.

Cost: Free

Frequency: Weekly

First 1000 is a newsletter about startup success stories. Specifically, it discusses how successful entrepreneurs like the founders of Tinder, Spotify, and other companies secured their first 1,000 customers — and how you can, too. Every Saturday, creator Ali Abouelatta releases a new Startup Deep Dive that founders can learn from to grow their own businesses.

Cost: Free

Frequency: Every Tuesday and Friday

Business.com's b.newsletter delivers relevant and timely information twice a week to help entrepreneurs build successful startups. It covers two key areas: growth tactics and strategy and culture development. Subscribers can expect a combination of useful and inspiring content, such as founder interviews, recommendations on emerging technology and books, office politics management, and more.

Cost: $14/month

Frequency: Varies

Ad Age offers more than 16 newsletters tailored to the needs of marketing teams and startups. A few of its newsletters feature Super Bowl ad campaign updates, daily digital marketing news, top media news, and strategies for chief marketing officers (CMOs).

Cost: Free 

Frequency: Monthly

A monthly newsletter brought to you by Techstars, a leading website focused on tech startup news, this newsletter provides valuable insights on market trends and news, events, and resources for aspiring startup founders. Moreover, because it’s a monthly newsletter, you won’t feel inundated with too much information.

Cost: Free

Frequency: Weekly

Check Your Pulse isn’t just a newsletter about tech and startups; it also focuses on the human side of startup entrepreneurship, including the people who innovate industries, develop technological advancements, and tell their own stories. As the newsletter’s curator Sari Azout says, “Check Your Pulse is ‘designed to make you feel human.’”

Cost: Free 

Frequency: Weekly

If you’re looking for an advice-oriented newsletter, subscribe to the First Round Review newsletter. From the best of X (formerly known as Twitter) to must-read articles, First Round Review provides an impactful collection of startup-related content to help guide you through your entrepreneurial journey.

Cost: Free

Frequency: Varies

TechCrunch offers a variety of newsletters that vary by subject and frequency. If you’re looking to keep up to date on all things tech-related, the TechCrunch AM & PM newsletter will deliver the day’s top tech headlines straight to your inbox. However, for a less frequent newsletter alternative, TechCrunch also offers weekly newsletters on a variety of topics from space to fintech.

Cost: Free

Frequency: Daily

Published by PitchBook, The Daily Pitch is a newsletter about startup funding and finances with the latest on venture capital, accelerator programs, and more. It’s a fantastic resource for regular updates on private equity, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and venture capitalists to help you stay informed.

Cost: Free

Frequency: Weekly

Hacker News has been publishing newsletters on influential entrepreneurs, emerging trends in the tech world, and more since 2010. Its newsletter boasts more than 60,000 subscribers, and helps entrepreneurs and tech aficionados stay up to date on the latest and greatest happenings in the startup ecosystem and beyond.

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