Founder Weekly (Issue 407 - October 16 2019)

Founder Weekly - Issue 407

October 16, 2019

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 407 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

In this essay we sketch out a set of ideas we believe can be used to help develop transformative new tools for thought. In the first part of the essay we describe an experimental prototype system that we’ve built, a kind of mnemonic medium intended to augment human memory. This is a snapshot of an ongoing project, detailing both encouraging progress as well as many challenges and opportunities. In the second part of the essay, we broaden the focus. We sketch several other prototype systems. And we address the question: why is it that the technology industry has made comparatively little effort developing this vision of transformative tools for thought?

Have a strategy that answers the question, “How will your product delight customers in hard-to-copy, margin-enhancing ways?”

Simple Analytics just passed the $30k in ARR. It’s a little more than one year old and I would like to take you along the important points of that journey together with where I want to take it next.

Marketing, Sales and PR

Start using the same tactics and strategies that power million dollar user onboarding funnels. This guide covers everything.

A page speed study of over 5 million webpages. Contains lots of interersting page loading speed stats.

Karen Rhorer shares those lessons and gets tactical on how sales managers should be using data — not for data’s own sake, but to drive winning performance on their teams. She outlines how to keep a steady thumb on the pulse of performance while cultivating the chops leaders need to support reps who aren’t quite there yet. 

Content marketing at small companies is like riding a bike—you jump on and start pedaling. If you pedal long and hard enough, you’ll eventually get where you need to be. Content at large companies is more like captaining a cruise ship. You have a destination, but you have guests to serve along the way. You need navigational instruments as well as a few nice restaurants, a good band and probably a water slide or two for the kids.

Money and Finance

Ellie Cachette said she had money to give venture capitalists, and many were eager to go into business with her. The deals didn't go exactly as planned.

Startups of the Week

Blazing fast search across all your docs and records in G Suite, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Dropbox, and 20+ more tools via one easy keyboard shortcut.

Translator with 100+ languages powered by 20+ translation engines & speech recognition software. Go global, speak local.

Autonomous vehicles software for farming, public utilities, and delivery.

Toggle is building new technology to increase safety, efficiency and productivity for the world’s most ubiquitous building material: reinforced concrete.

Tips, Tools and Services

The most comprehensive overview across the web on how big design companies build digital communities.

Design clear interactions instead of clever ones, and users will follow.

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