Founder Weekly (Issue 350 - August 15 2018)

Founder Weekly - Issue 350Â Â

August 15, 2018

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 350 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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General

The company provides a cautionary tale about understanding pricing and demand.

Troubles at lidar company Quanergy point to difficulties in a highly-hyped industry.

A new study explores startup migration and the benefits it brings.

“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” —Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO of Dropbox. Do you think you’ve got the great idea for the next billion-dollar company? Hopefully our list all about startups will give you some inspiration. Who knows! The next slightly odd, socially awkward billionaire aiming for world domination could be you.

Books

Do you know the best way to drive your company's growth? If not, it's time to boost your Growth IQ.

Marketing, Sales and PR

SEO content strategy isn’t simple. If it was, everyone would have websites that generate 250,000+ visits/month. Thankfully, the act of building and executing a successful strategy has a significant barrier to entry. That said, you can win with repeated, high-quality execution.

Money and Finance

Stock options, RSUs, job offers, and taxes—a detailed reference, including hundreds of resources, explained from the ground up and made to be improved over time.

Known as a mega-round in Silicon Valley, large-scale fund raising is producing a frenzy around tech companies with enough reach and momentum to absorb a large check.

Startups of the Week

Build internal tools faster. Retool makes building internal software faster by pre-building common components, and managing the dataflow for you. So we give you a library of components, which you compose to make what you want. These components can connect directly to queries you write.

We're a network of boutique in-home preschools, child care programs and forest schools. We make it easy for teachers to start and operate high-quality programs and for families to find them. 

A home for the ambitious outsiders of the world. We’re building a community of creative young people working on interesting projects around the globe.

Real-time, in-field information to safely, effectively work with vulnerable populations. RideAlong’s software gives city and county frontline workers the context they need to help residents. Police officers and healthcare workers alike have the tools to serve residents efficiently, safely, and empathetically.

Seva is a hosted information discovery and collaboration platform that helps teams be smarter, work faster, and be more efficient. Integrated across a broad set of applications for email, messaging, document management, code management, and others, Seva gives knowledge workers a single source of truth across today's modern work stack, giving users frictionless access to the most important information they need to do their jobs.

Tips, Tools and Services

Voice search is HUGE right now. And it’s only getting bigger. The question is: How do you optimize your site for voice search? Well, that’s exactly what you’re going to learn in this guide.

This post is advice for early stage startup founders who are hiring their first engineer. At this stage traditional recruiting methods e.g. hiring a recruiter won't work as well for you as they do for larger companies.

How many people do you need to design a great product?

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