Founder Weekly (Issue 358 - October 10 2018)

Founder Weekly - Issue 358

October 10, 2018

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 358 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

Arianna Huffington knows: To survive your entrepreneurial journey, you have to learn to recharge. In fact, knowing when to turn the lights OUT may be the only way to keep the lights on. Few know this better than Arianna, who dramatically scaled the Huffington Post — and then experienced profound burnout. She now leads Thrive Global, which scales the idea of balance across an organization. 

Mental models are simple expressions of complex processes or relationships. These models are accumulated over time by an individual and used to make faster and better decisions. This post outlines some of the most useful mental models that I’ve accumulated in my career in Product Management. As I learn new models, I’ll continually update the post.

How intuition drives stronger decision making.

Books

The Messy Middle is the indispensable guide to navigating the volatility of new ventures and leading bold creative projects by Scott Belsky, bestselling author, entrepreneur, Chief Product Officer at Adobe, and product advisor to many of today's top start-ups. With insightful interviews from today’s leading entrepreneurs, artists, writers, and executives, as well as Belsky’s own experience working with companies like Airbnb, Pinterest, Uber, and sweetgreen, The Messy Middle will outfit you to find your way through the hardest parts of any bold project or new venture.

Marketing, Sales and PR

A Surprising Experiment: 17.2 Million Views From a Single Twitter Thread.

This is the most comprehensive guide to backlinks on the planet. Learn exactly how to build links that work in 2018.

Defining what makes storytelling stick in 12 steps.

Money and Finance

What does it take to raise seed funding as an AI-first SaaS startup?

Startups of the Week

myLevels makes it possible to see how you uniquely respond to food, in real time. We give you a glucose sensor so you can see your sugar levels and understand your unique profile of responses. We then give you personalised recommendations to evolve what you eat to keep your sugar levels balanced. Our motto is to do things the Pareto (80/20) way - so finding the small (20%) changes that have a big (80%) impact - this might mean things like switching lager for IPA, granola for porridge or grapes for strawberries.?

Bikky solves customer engagement for restaurants. With our easy-to-use dashboard, restaurants can gain complete visibility of their delivery operations, find their most valuable customers, and directly engage diners with the push of a button.

Find and solve your UX issues. Data Hygge sits behind your website and automatically detects the most critical UX issues.

Tips, Tools and Services

The story of redesigning Fabric Crashlytics in Firebase.

Are you looking for attractive pop up design examples that look nice on your site and at the same time convert visitors into contacts & buyers? If the answer is yes - 5 categories and 25 popup examples that will help you convert visitors into contacts and buyers.

The team behind the innovative website builder Tilda continually researches the best practices of web page design to apply in our product. Together with Icons8, we decided to share ways of applying icons in landing pages to make your offer visually outstanding. The article is full of examples. We provide links to all of them, so you can take a look at real pages, get icons from examples and even try them out easily and for free with a landing page builder.

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