Founder Weekly (Issue 381 - April 10 2019)

Founder Weekly - Issue 381

April 10, 2019

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 381 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

Jeff Wald reflects on the seldom discussed truths from his brushes with failure by walking us through three specific challenges founders face when it comes to opening up. He also shares effective tactics for traveling further down the road of vulnerability and tools for extracting key lessons from failure, as well as the advice he would have welcomed as he was going through it. For founders fresh off a failure (or for those who feel they’re precariously teetering on its very edge), Wald shares invaluable perspective and helpful wisdom for getting back in the game.

Abigail Disney, heiress to the Disney fortune, has more money than she’ll ever spend. Here, she talks about being raised in a wealthy family.

Companies, admitting they got millennials wrong, try memes, ethical stances and (seriously) whispering to lure the newest spenders.

An innovative business model could remedy a pervasive environmental harm.

Marketing, Sales and PR

Product Hunt success doesn't happen by accident. Before you launch, learn the keys to running a great marketing campaign on Product Hunt.

Your business is under daily assault.  If you've been holding out for a hero, don't worry - they're already here. Say hello to Trial-to-Paid Conversion.

Money and Finance

In just a decade, Andreessen Horowitz has backed a bevy of startup blockbusters—Facebook, Instagram, Lyft, Slack—and made just as many Silicon Valley enemies. To stay ahead, it’s taking the unusual step of renouncing its venture capital status—and making even bigger, riskier bets.

Convertible Notes and SAFE’s (“Notes”) are viewed as a simple and fast way to raise capital with few terms and restrictions — Yet, it’s not all a bed of roses.

Turns out that the art of being a venture capitalist means never saying no, even if you rarely say yes.

Startups of the Week

Duet lets you use your iPad or iPhone as an external monitor. With Zero Lag.

We help educators buy homes in expensive cities like Denver, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Seattle. Our services include shared equity down payment support, homebuying education, and a trusted network of real estate agents.

GIBLIB is the Netflix of Medical Education. We curate and create high quality education videos from expert physicians at the leading academic medical centers and we distribute on-demand to medical professionals globally.

Tips, Tools and Services

A simple hack to lead meetings to the next level.

Five Whys is a method used to look into the cause-and-effect of a problem. It consists of repeatedly asking the question “why?” until you get to the source of a problem. You could also use this technique to better understand a design decision… or to drive people insane.

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