Founder Weekly (Issue 390 - June 19 2019)

Founder Weekly - Issue 390

June 19, 2019

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 390 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

Being trusted is a huge advantage for any company that can pull it off. But is it even possible for people to trust a tech company right now?

Wharton's Jacqueline Kirtley discusses her research on the nature of entrepreneurial pivots.

Nathan Furr, assistant professor of strategy at INSEAD, researches what makes great innovative leaders, and he reveals how they develop and spend “innovation capital.” Like social or political capital, it’s a power to motivate employees, win the buy-in of stakeholders, and sell breakthrough products. Furr argues that innovation capital is something everyone can develop and grow by using something he calls “impression amplifiers.”

A thought piece on what it takes to truly be great and what that even means in the first place.

It’s expensive, time-consuming and heavily regulated. It’s an industry that’s seen little change in hundreds of years and populated by those who are mostly resistant to that change. Furthermore, it remains an industry with an image problem – by and large customers don’t believe financial institutions of any type are working in their favour. So why launch a startup in the banking sector?

Marketing, Sales and PR

Step-by-step customer discovery process for finding your customer's unmet needs, deciding what to build, and refining your pitch and targeting.

A step-by-step guide to writing a blog post that people read and share.

Money and Finance

Fundraising tends to move slow until it moves fast. It feels like a bit of a grind in the early and mid stages of a process, but in a successful fundraise, things tend to heat up at the end and move at a breakneck pace once you drive towards final allocations and a close. At this point, founders find themselves in a luxurious situation of being able to build the best possible syndicate. Here are a couple tips and suggestions on how to go about creating the most supportive investor base for a typical institutional seed round.

Startups of the Week

Clockwise is an intelligent calendar assistant that frees up your time so you can focus on what matters.

Host a Helium Hotspot and earn Helium tokens, a new cryptocurrency, for building the world’s first peer-to-peer wireless network, The People’s Network.

Youper is an Emotional Health Assistant. It’s the first of its kind. It applies Artificial Intelligence to monitor and improve your emotional health. It helps you feel your best with quick conversations based on various psychological techniques personalized to your needs and style.

We help property owners increase their income with short-term rental solutions, while reducing their workload at the same time. We manage the day-to-day operations of Airbnbs and other short-term rental apartments, including online listing, photography, pricing management, guest communication, cleaning, laundry, toiletries and check-in and check-out of guests.

Tips, Tools and Services

It’s time we bridge the gap between feel-good Design & Ethics panels and the work we do every day as digital product designers.

A checklist to help entrepreneurs evolve with empathy.

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