Founder Weekly (Issue 417 - January 1 2020)

Founder Weekly - Issue 417

January 01, 2020

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 417 of Founder Weekly. I wish you all Happy New Year and I am excited to continue sending you the best links for your various entrepreneurial needs in 2020.

General

Y Combinator CEO and Partner Michael Seibel shares a process for building product as a small startup.

Machine learning has a privacy problem, but techniques like differential privacy, federated learning, and homomorphic encryption might offer a solution.

A two-sided marketplace never achieves the same level of customer loyalty that a direct marketplace does.

Marketing, Sales and PR

See how the best companies design and grow products users love.

No matter what your startup is selling or who you’re selling it to, in order to survive, you’ll need big customers and you’ll need lots of them. But how do you land million-dollar deals with limited resources and no credibility?

Money and Finance

Immad Akhund is a 4x founder, Partner at Y Combinator, and has raised capital from A16Z and others. He's also been an angel investor in 100+ startups. Here are his tips for raising venture capital. 

Can Your SaaS Startup Cross the Penny Gap?

Few business communities swing from boom to bust as reliably as Silicon Valley, but detecting shifts in this opaque world can be challenging. To help illuminate the field, we've created the Bloomberg U.S. Startups Barometer, a new weekly indicator that tracks the overall health of the business environment for private technology companies based in the U.S.

Startups of the Week

Harness the power of AI to predict and prevent outages. InsightFinder allows you to identify potential system and application issues before they are able to impact production services. Powered by unsupervised neural network machine learning algorithms, InsightFinder performs real-time anomaly detection across metrics, logs, and traces.

Shipfix is a community helping the dry cargo industry collaborate more efficiently with its messaging platform, email-crunching market monitor and data intelligence.

Tips, Tools and Services

This post explores the findings made by Microsoft Research, after the unsuccessful launch of Windows Vista in 2007. Microsoft decided to dig deep and figure out what went wrong.

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