Founder Weekly (Issue 419 - January 15 2020)

Founder Weekly - Issue 419

January 15, 2020

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 419 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

An excellent in-depth report on CES2020 by Steven Sinofsky.

Gumroad’s founder shares what he’s learned about strategy, product, and growth.

How to Work Like a Developer (Without Learning to Code).

It’s replicating the most lucrative entertainment businesses on earth… and then adding a lot more.

A process for building new features at your tech company.

My take on what the future might hold for workers.

Marketing, Sales and PR

Landing page testing is an essential part of growing your conversions. Check out our guide to landing page testing and grow your audience today.

Our content distribution strategy is to double down paid social and SEO. Here's our in-depth strategy that we're using and the results we've achieved.

Money and Finance

There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder.  But there isn’t very much about how to be a good startup investor. In this post, Sam Altman shares three things you need to do well to be a successful investor.

Continuing our experiments with radical transparency, we've published a draft of the investment memo for Earnest Capital's next fund.

What We Learned by Analyzing the Most Successful Tech Companies of the Past Decade.

To better understand the dynamics across different markets, I looked through some data and attempted to answer the following question – Which markets are the most and least served by seed investors who lead?

Casper will only win if its IPO goes so badly that it drives its competitors out of the marketplace forever.

Startups of the Week

Build Third Party Applications APIs with NoCode.

Fly long range unmanned aircraft to automate the inspection of the grid. Perform smart inspections safely and efficiently across your grid for better grid uptime.

An immersive education and wellness platform for professional & family caregivers and the older adults they serve. Transform the way you care.

Tips, Tools and Services

Product Management has become a holistic discipline that brings together business, design, and technology. Here’s how to encourage that view of the discipline — and discourage common misconceptions.

10 ways to paint a picture of the future that excites you and becomes a magnet for others.

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