Founder Weekly (Issue 343 - June 27 2018)

 Founder Weekly - Issue 343 Â

June 27, 2018

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 343 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

My advice for getting acqui-hired: don’t. But if you are going to get acqui-hired, learn from my mistakes.

Know when to fight. Know when to give in and compromise. If you do the latter, don't let it eat you up or you'll lose twice.

The part 1 is about why startups are so stressful and how stress accumulates in the body. 

  • Part 2 - This part deals with some suggestions and techniques to help deal with the stress of the startup life.

Books

The first sleep book by a leading scientific expert—Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley’s Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab—reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better.

Marketing, Sales and PR

Get a detailed look at Blinkist's content marketing strategy that's responsible for driving 50,000 mobile app downloads every month.

Money and Finance

First Round's Josh Kopelman discusses his experiences as a startup founder and what he looks for in his current role as a VC.

Compensation is a topic near and dear to everyone’s heart… but what does “compensation” fully mean — and what does it include, what doesn’t it include? How do entrepreneurs compete for talent in an intensely competitive environment, while balancing their startup’s affordability considerations? This wide-ranging episode of the a16z Podcast covers all things compensation — from philosophical questions such as how to get to alignment around your company’s compensation philosophy to details such as the tradeoffs between RSUs vs. stock options. 

Swedish VC firm EQT Ventures’ Motherbrain uses machine learning to identity unknown companies with big potential.

Startups of the Week

Creator is revolutionizing the way food is prepared with technology that allows for gourmet quality food to be sold at fast food prices. We have created a robot that makes customized hamburgers from raw ingredients. Not only does our technology prepare food in a more sanitary, expedient, and with customizable way but, it also makes the freshest burger possible.

Phrasee is AI that specialises in language generation for marketing copy. We use artificial intelligence to generate language for Facebook, Push and Email Marketing on a client-to-client basis. The result? Increased opens, clicks, and conversions for our customers.

CarBlip is a new automotive platform that allows you to negotiate the price of a new car directly from the app. Shop across multiple makes and models, start negotiating deals and select the deal that is best suited for you.

Tips, Tools and Services

Lessons from Michelin, Google, and certain other SaaS companies that got their pricing right.

The U.S. spends over $3 trillion annually and healthcare accounts approaches 20% of our GDP — this is clearly an industry that is ripe with opportunity and lots of activity. But it is also rife with waste, operational inefficiencies, and complex but crucial regulatory requirements. As a new breed of entrepreneurs and startups tackle the challenges in the healthcare system — many of whom are armed with the technical and scientific know-how but not necessarily an insider’s view on navigating the alphabet soup of people, places, and processes — here are 16 terms you should know.

Chief executives have tremendous resources at their disposal, but they face an acute scarcity in one critical area: time. Drawing on an in-depth 12-year study, this package examines the unique time management challenges of CEOs and the best strategies for conquering them.

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