Founder Weekly (Issue 388 - June 5 2019)

Founder Weekly - Issue 388

June 05, 2019

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 388 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

What to Do When Things Aren’t Working.

My process for narrowing down what to build next.

This is also what the internet is becoming: a dark forest.

PatronScan says it sells security. Privacy advocates worry it’s selling mass surveillance.

Ajay Bhatt was struggling to upgrade his computer when he began to see the need for one plug to rule them all. 

Marketing, Sales and PR

Advice on how to get media to pay attention, build relationships and what goes into a story.

Money and Finance

Startups of the Week

The marketplace of live online classes for K-12 learners. Outschool connects motivated learners, parents, and teachers together to create great learning experiences.

Pillar is an app that helps people manage their student loans. We do this by analyzing your loan balances, income, and spending trends to make recommendations.

The easiest cloud for all your APIs. Render is a unified platform to build and run all your apps and websites with free SSL, a global CDN, and auto deploys from GitHub.

Tips, Tools and Services

Will Larson digs into two critical components of organization design. Specifically, he shares his system for gauging the size and state of engineering teams — in not only a highly efficient and effective way, but also with a deeply empathetic and ethical approach.

New users get turned off by an app design experience when their time is at a premium, so it’s crucial to engage them from the off if you’re going to succeed.

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