Founder Weekly (Issue 402 - September 11 2019)

Founder Weekly - Issue 402

September 11, 2019

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 402 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

A series of podcast that cover details on Val Sopi's way to $10K in MRR. He goes into detail about strategies, tactics, lessons, and successes in marketing, sales, and outreach. 

Daily walks, quiet rooms, and tech-free mornings. The strategies for achieving better health in the digital age are pretty basic — but hard to achieve.

JOMO—the joy of missing out—is a way to live an intentional life. It’s realising that FOMO is distracting you from your life’s purpose.

Teens care about the news. They just don’t like traditional media.

Marketing, Sales and PR

Hundreds of SaaS websites are now using illustrations on their websites. Let's investigate how this design trend started, and why visual branding matters.

What makes people love your SaaS product so much that they want to spread the word about it? In a word: delight. Yep, you heard us right. Here's a look at how to conduct a delight audit for your SaaS product and to deliver more delightfulness to your customers.

Money and Finance

Many of the freshmen now arriving in Palo Alto came to raise capital and drop out. A cynic’s guide to killing it at Stanford.

Startups of the Week

The Safest and Most Minimalist Smart Lock. FIDO is the embodiment of a futuristic smart lock, placing its focus on security and safety above all else. Simplistic and minimalist in its design, FIDO is complex and smart in its engineering.

Every payment gateway, with a single line of code. Maximize payment conversions, and enjoy no hassle payouts to partners worldwide from day one. Track and manage funds through one unified dashboard.

World's First Smart Cutting Board With 10 Features. This cutting board kills germs, weighs your food and more! 

Tips, Tools and Services

Trying to figure out how to interview someone? We asked founders and startup leaders to share their favorite questions to ask in interviews.

You’re giving feedback because you want your team to improve. Here’s how to give feedback that precisely helps nudge your team in the right direction.

First of a two-part series on the best strategies for hiring humans in the 21st century. Fueled by both personal experience and the experience of countless mentors (and recruiters), this gigantic post is bursting at the seams with knowledge. Though specifically written by a CTO-type, the strategies are useful for hiring any kind of white-collar role.

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