Founder Weekly (Issue 339 - May 30 2018)

Founder Weekly - Issue 339

May 30, 2018

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 339 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

In this interview, Bill Irvine explains what it means to be a stoic. We discuss how to evaluate and pursue worthy goals and how to keep perspective during challenging times. We examine the necessity of failure in the pursuit of greatness and uncover the value of setbacks.

Given the nature of today’s conflict situations — which are over the last few decades increasingly in urban environments, in counterinsurgency operations, and often in ‘boots on the ground’ environments where it is very difficult for service to distinguish between civilians and combatants — how can new autonomous technologies actually improve how we protect the lives of servicemen and women on the ground? How might they enhance critical human decision making moment to moment, to save more lives? And more broadly, how is AI shifting national security power dynamics around the globe?

How do you know when you've reached Product-Market Fit? We put together this article to provide those in software marketing roles a practical guide for how to create and implement a product - market fit survey. And crucially, how to dive into the numbers, then what to do with the information you get from customers/users.

Books

Explosive Growth is a business book like no other. In Explosive Growth, Cliff provides his step-by-step playbook to achieve explosive growth, combining lively and often hilarious storytelling, proven tactics, case-studies, and reliable insights to help your startup achieve its own explosive growth

Marketing, Sales and PR

SEO landing pages receive millions of visitors per day and are a large part of many large companies’ growth. In this post, I'll try to explain the top opportunities to get there from just having a basic set of landing pages.

Videos are the marketing tool with the highest engagement on the internet. Learn how to increase your sales and beat your competition by using the right ad platforms and the video advertising strategies that matter most to your business.

We're breaking down exactly what you need to deliver a world-class sales experience through chat. Get step by step advice from seasoned B2B sales execs and reps, and find out what you need to do to engage, qualify, and book more sales meetings with people on your site.

How Customer Acquisition Strategies Need to Change.

Money and Finance

Ever wonder why founders don't give VCs advice but VCs provide plenty? Here are some tips for VCs when engaging founding CEOs.

While there’s no one-size-fits-all approach, we asked founders for the best advice they got as they prepared to raise millions.

One of the hardest questions to answer when considering an A is “when is my company ready?” I’ve been returning to this problem nearly every day since we started the Series A program and I’ve started to build a framework for how to solve it.

Is the current penchant for CVC just the usual part of the cycle?

Startups of the Week

Buy Me A Coffee is a friendly way for creators to accept donations and share exclusive content.

Be My Eyes is a free app that connects blind and low vision people with sighted volunteers and company representatives for visual assistance through a live video call.

Genivity is an AI platform that tracks and predicts family health risks to help financial advisors better serve their clients.

Bear Flag Robotics is developing self-driving technology for tractors and implements. Our mission is to lower the cost of farming through automation.

Tips, Tools and Services

If you want the best people to come and work for you, you have to sell your company to them. In this post, I’m going to break down my elevator pitch to potential employees.

Customer intimacy is a two-way connection, and these days you can’t scale your business without fostering it.

A Manager’s Guide for Effectively Giving Feedback.

Don’t let them kill your dreams.

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