Founder Weekly (Issue 336 - May 9 2018)

Founder Weekly - Issue 336Â Â

May 09, 2018

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 336 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

The Seven Shared Fundamentals of History’s Most Valuable Companies.

We found them: the best business podcasts for founders. Check out our comprehensive list of podcasts in 2018, focused on productivity, creativity, and more.

Don't be discouraged if you have nothing right now. These millennial entrepreneurs started with nearly zilch and made it to the top. 

My day job is in digital marketing. By night, I bartend. And it’s kind of remarkable how consistent the two are — mostly because: People are people.

The format, made popular by Snapchat and Instagram, is the native genre of glass rectangles.

Imagine that your startup didn't flop and that it's one of the fastest growing companies in the region instead. That's all good, right? Just keep adding developers. What could go wrong? In this talk, I will share some of the challenges that may hit you in the "scale-up" phase, and how avoid them while still keeping your "startup spirit" and not going full-on corporate. 

The beneficial struggle of building your own narrative

Books

The Corporate Startup is a practical guide for established companies that aspire to develop and sustain their innovation capabilities. The world around us is changing rapidly. There is now more pressure on established companies to innovate. The challenge most companies face is how to develop new products for new markets, while managing their core business at the same time. The principles and practices outlined in this book provide companies with a blueprint of how to manage innovation while they execute on their core business. The Corporate Startup provides frameworks, visualizations, templates, tools and methods that can be easily applied to develop new products and business models. 

Marketing, Sales and PR

Why finding a marketing channel for your startup isn't as hard as you think it is.

Is marketing a cost center or a revenue driver? These three CMOs are emphatically the latter—but that doesn't mean they are all data and no creativity.

Money and Finance

Defining and sharing these kinds of plans is extremely important both in charting your own course as a founder as well as attracting co-founders, employees, and early investors to your cause. But it’s obviously a balancing act between an ambitious set of goals and a credible plan you can execute. Here are a few pieces of advice to keep in mind.

In running our Series A program, we uncovered a way to materially influence the leverage a founder has in any round: process. Process is important because it gives founders the best opportunity to create a market for startups that favors the founders in the most important aspect of raising money: getting the right investor.

Startups of the Week

Solos merges your preferred performance data and puts them all right in front of you. Keeping your eyes on the road and your head in the moment. No looking down. No breaking stride. No unsafe distractions. You can stay focused and fully present.

Lobe is an easy-to-use visual tool that lets you build custom deep learning models, quickly train them, and ship them directly in your app without writing any code.

Consistently Grow More with Less. Robotic solutions for row crop agriculture.

Tips, Tools and Services

How to spot the 5 studies startups need most.

What does tech management at Slack, HubSpot, Netflix, Etsy, Shopify, InVision, and more have in common? A lot, apparently!

A fundamental part of your work as a designer is to present ideas as clearly as possible so others can provide informed and useful feedback. In order to communicate effectively, you need to consider how your ideas are received. Taking the time to thoughtfully deliver information will speed up your process and help you accomplish your goals faster.

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