Founder Weekly (Issue 411 - November 13 2019)

Founder Weekly - Issue 411

November 13, 2019

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 411 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

Swipe up and to the right: Southeast Asia’s $100 billion internet economy.

Every SaaS brand sells code and servers. That's it. So how have some of these businesses been able to build global brands? Learn about SaaS branding here.

When employers are looking to hire, they always seem to want people that are passionate about the company's mission. Is that necessary?

In this paper, the authors show that for the widely-used class of stochastic gradient-descent based learning algorithms, learning is fastest when the accuracy during training is 85%.

Marketing, Sales and PR

9 hacks LinkedIn influencers don’t want you to know.

Ahrefs don't use Google Analytics, tracking pixels or email nurturing, crazy? Well they must be doing some SaaS marketing... this article explains.

Learn how you can start getting links faster and easier through email outreach. But not effortlessly! No magical how-tos that will bring tons of links.

The most frequent mishire in startups is the first head of marketing. Many different disciplines fall under marketing’s purview. The question facing founders recruiting marketers is: which is the most important to prioritize?

Money and Finance

Nobody ever got fired for signing a Term Sheet from Benchmark or Sequoia.

Startups of the Week

Free data dashboards for startup founders. Meltano provides an integrated workflow for modeling, extracting, loading, transforming, analyzing, notebooking, and orchestrating your data.

Alpaca API lets you build and trade with real-time market data for free.

Tripsy is a trip planner that lets you share your itinerary with family and friends, receive flight alerts, store documents, and also has suggestions of itineraries to some cities around the world.

Tips, Tools and Services

How user research reshaped the design of Google’s open-source text fields.

How Honeycomb built a world-class remote team.

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