Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 391 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

Apple, Google, and Facebook Are Raiding Animal Research Labs

Neuroscientists studying birds, mice, and fish are landing seven-figure salaries to help advance artificial intelligence, self-driving cars, and more.

Why We’re Betting Against Real-Time Team Messaging Apps Like Slack

Does faster communication really mean better communication?

Industry Towns - Where You Start A Company Matters

What Type of Lean Startup Experiment Should I Run?

Marketing, Sales and PR

Startup Marketing Checklist

Simple Tasks to Get More Customers.

8 User Retention Tactics Tested On 300 Million Users

B2B SaaS Marketing Strategies That Work

Create a B2B SaaS Sales Strategy from Scratch: And Put It To Work

Money and Finance

What AngelList Data Says About Power-Law Returns In Venture Capital

Using AngelList’s curated data we show that the returns of early-stage investments follow a fairly extreme power law distribution, with enormous positive outliers skewing portfolio performance. The prominence of these huge winners suggests that an indexing strategy of investing in the entire early-stage venture universe will outperform roughly three-quarters of early-stage venture capital funds.

The M&A process is broken

It’s outdated, inefficient, and combative. Which is why we’re publishing the Atlassian Term Sheet to fix it.

Rich Wong, GP at Accel (recent IPOs = Slack, Crowdstrike & Fiverr), on his thesis of picks & shovels, early bets in mobile and why enterprise automation is the next big thing

How Afrocenchix Oversubscribed on Seed Investment Round and Raised Over $650,000

What does it take to raise capital, in SaaS, in 2019?

Startups of the Week

Krisp

Krisp is a noise cancellation app that removes background noise in real time calls.

Navigator

Reclaim the power of your meetings. Productive, meaningful meetings are essential to getting things done—but they’re a lot of work to pull off. Navigator is here to help.

Overtime

Overtime is a sports network for the next generation of fans. We use tech, new platforms, and new formats to drive more than 250 million minutes of watch time each month.

Tips, Tools and Services

Startup idea checklist

How do you delegate to a group of people?

Redpoint SaaS Startup Key Metrics Template

How CSMs Become Heroes in Your Company’s Customer-First Quest

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