Founder Weekly (Issue 395 - July 24 2019)

Founder Weekly - Issue 395

July 24, 2019

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 395 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

Mental models are frameworks for thinking. They simplify complex things so your brain can reason through them. They are shortcuts through the noise. You use them to make good decisions without needing to know everything about a situation. This is the highest-leverage tweak you can make to your mind: When you repeatedly make good decisions, you receive compounding returns. This is how a young physics geek obsessed with clear thinking finds himself the founder of PayPal, Tesla, and SpaceX in such a short amount of time.

Three decades in and a lot of bucks spent, OTT competition has clarified. Though not in ways that were expected.

The story of Groove's darkest months: how we got here and how we came up with a plan to turn things around.

The new laws and antitrust actions that would resurrect American innovation.

Marketing, Sales and PR

To help startups navigate the risk and reward trade-offs of customer contracts, I interviewed lawyers, founders, and CROs about their experiences and what they learned about winning the deal without taking on contractual risk. In this post, I look at 16 of the most important sales contract clauses and how to approach each.

Are you wondering what results you can get from advertising on Quora and Reddit? Read our case study to see what we learned.

Canonical tags help to combat duplicate content issues. They tell search engines like Google to index and rank the right pages. Here's how to use them.

Money and Finance

This is a post about raising a Series A from an investor that is not based in your home city.

Startups of the Week

All your business metrics in one place. Tired of tracking your metrics across different apps? Create unlimited free dashboards in minutes.

Ready, Set, Food! makes it easy for parents reduce their baby's risk of developing peanut, egg, and milk allergies by up to 80% with our gentle, daily system.

Mission critical software infrastructure to enable the next generation of robotics companies to build, operate, and scale robots and robotic fleets. Manage fleets of robots with just one line of code.

Safe and Reliable Transportation for Those Needing Assistance. Onward connects caring drivers with older adults to allow them to live their lives. 

Tips, Tools and Services

Performance reviews are key to accelerating your report’s career. A former Airbnb Product Lead shares the conversation template that he used to build high-performing teams and motivate growth all year long.

How to Tee Up a Warm Introduction.

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