Founder Weekly (Issue 399 - August 21 2019)

Founder Weekly - Issue 399

August 21, 2019

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 399 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

The latest report in EPI’s annual series analyzing current and long-term trends in CEO compensation.

This is a sister post to my recent one, Career Decisions:  What to Look For in a Software Startup.  That piece is all about what to look for when considering taking a job at a software startup.  This piece is kind of the opposite:  what to look out for when considering an executive job at a software startup.

A few things that surprise you especially as a founder.

Marketing, Sales and PR

How did the team at SurveyMonkey know it was time revamp their pricing strategy? Find out which signals tipped them off and how they made it a success.

Retaining customers and minimizing churn is one of the most important concerns for subscription businesses. Without high retention, you’ll be losing money.

Money and Finance

How do they decide whether to take a meeting or not? Every investor is different, and most VCs don’t have a formula. Most do it by gut instinct. But there are twelve pieces of information that VCs are typically interested to know right up front in order to decide whether to take a meeting. They might not always even know it on a conscious level, but these twelve questions are like an algorithm running in the background when they're deciding to take a meeting.

Startups of the Week

Simple, smarter lawn care delivered to your door with everything you need to have a healthy, strong lawn.

Helping all students discover meaningful careers. Handshake is the college career network of the future, built to democratize opportunity and transform the college recruiting experience.

Automatically generate beautiful visual sitemaps + high-resolution screenshots of any site or web-app, making it fast and easy to perform in-depth site audits for UI, UX, SEO, and marketing research.

Brainbase helps companies manage and monetize their intellectual property.

Your work, center stage. Free, self-hosted content management system built for publishing photography and portfolio sites.

Tips, Tools and Services

Open-source project of Go code to bootstrap your software-as-a-service startup.

We started Kapwing almost two years ago and grew the company from 2 co-founders to 12 full-time employees in the last 12 months. Our team is based full-time in San Francisco, where the unemployment rate is astonishingly low. In this article, I share a list of our tactics and learnings about hiring for other first-time entrepreneurs trying to hire engineers.

Here’s How We Did it.

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