Founder Weekly (Issue 376 - February 27 2019)

Founder Weekly - Issue 376

February 27, 2019

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 376 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

How did the word "hacker" come to mean both an evil programmer and genius coder? The answer lies in central London, Viking belts, the history of AI, and possibly in Motocross.

The startup storyline being told may not be the most optimal. The mental clarity of separating your lifeline from your projects may be the most thoughtful choice.

Financial help from parents comes in many forms, and it’s the basis of so many success stories. So why do millennials act like it doesn't exist? Jen Doll examines the myth—and tyranny—of the "self-made" success story.

Books

Millionaire Success Habits is a book designed with one purpose in mind: to take you from where you are in life to where you want to be in life by incorporating easy-to-implement "Success Habits" into your daily routine. This book is not about adding more time to your day. It is about replacing those things that are not serving your future with success habits designed specifically to assist you on your journey to a better you. 

Marketing, Sales and PR

Short-form video app, TikTok, has more than 800 million daily active users across the globe. This guide walks you through how TikTok works as well as how businesses are approaching TikTok marketing.

This quirky marketing technique can take your brand from zero to hero in no time — make sure you understand its true definition, and do it right!

This is the Baremetrics Growth Manifesto — the same one that sits in our internal wiki — that we use to guide everything we do that's related to growth.

How to use Robots.txt rules including wildcards, the X-Robots-Tag and noindex indexing directives to keep your content out of Google.

Money and Finance

Startups of the Week

The only debit card with 2x points on travel & dining. 2% APY on savings. Choose your own card. No fees.

Zone7 uses AI to power athlete performance decisions. We analyze data from GPS wearables, medical and health profiles to bridge to predict injury risk and recommend customized intervention strategies.

Tips, Tools and Services

Beware these engineering mistakes for your early stage software startup.

‘How do people actually use our product?’ is a fundamental question that every product creator must answer. In order to answer this question, product designers need to understand the essence of the whole experience from the user’s perspective. User journey mapping is an excellent exercise that can shed light on that.

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