Founder Weekly (Issue 414 - December 11 2019)

Founder Weekly - Issue 414

December 11, 2019

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 414 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

A great post by Josh Howarth on why he built the product and how it was acquired after 6 months of the launch.

A step-by-step roadmap to building wealth.

Begin the lifelong journey to become the best at your craft.

The guide to defining your product’s North Star. Dive in to learn how this data-informed framework can help you improve the way you build products.

In this post, Josh Pigford, the fouunder Baremetrics shares why he failed to close a $5m sale.

Report by Nic Newman and Nathan Gallo explores the growth of news podcasts across the world and the prospects for both publishers and platforms.

Food delivery is growing rapidly across Europe. Existing estimates suggest that the market is experiencing double-digit growth rates and could be worth $25bn by 2023.¹ This study looks at how technology is contributing to that growth and measures the resulting impact on the overall restaurant sector.

While network effects are often referred to as a singular phenomenon, we’ve done a lot of work to dispel this myth. In 2017 we published the NFX Manual where we laid out 13 different types of network effects we had identified over the prior 15 years. At the time, we said there were “13 and counting”, knowing that more would show up as we work with 100s of businesses with network effects. In this post, we’re sharing the newest network effect we’ve identified: a 14th type that we call Expertise Network Effects.

Marketing, Sales and PR

A post explaining some of the most important business metrics and how they relate to one another.

What's in store for search in 2020? Here are 10 of the biggest SEO trends you need to know, according to 58 industry experts.

If you want to boost your click, open, and conversion rates, you need to write better email subject lines. Here are 115 of our favorite.

Money and Finance

How operators get their wings in Silicon Valley.

Raising capital is a major time suck for most founders. But it's so much worse when a founder pitches the wrong deal to the wrong investor. These slides provide a simple methodology for building a killer investor pipeline spreadsheet to help the fundraising process move along. It also includes a Google Spreadsheet template to get the process started. 

Money meant to fund an Israeli startup wound up directly deposited to the scammers.

Data-driven insights about VC-backed start-ups in Europe.

How Will the 2020s Impact the Venture Capital Industry?

Startups of the Week

xs:code is a monetization platform for open source projects. Offer paid subscriptions to access your code, while keeping it open source. Get started in minutes. Select your monetization model, import your repository, and share your revenue with your contributors.

Claim your cancelled or delayed flight compensation. You may be entitled to 600€ from the airline for your flight delay, cancellation, or overbooking.

Complete user management in 8 lines of code.

Tips, Tools and Services

PMFsurvey is a free tool that helps you run the Sean Ellis test and measure your company’s product/market fit.

In this article, Esther Perel shares some of her favorite techniques for getting to the root of recurring disagreements and tactics for navigating conflict in the heat of the moment

While conflict can destroy relationships when managed poorly, learning how to manage it in a healthy manner can actually lead to stronger relationships.

Companies operate with well-defined roles over time. Choosing to opt out of that structure can be hard, but not impossible. This post talks through how to think about that decision and what helps make it work.

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