Founder Weekly (Issue 427 - March 18 2020)

Founder Weekly - Issue 427

March 18, 2020

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 427 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

Bob Moore opens up about what he’s learned after more than 12 years in the founding trenches, from building in bear and bull markets to avoiding “meh” exits and tackling the fickle nature of product/market fit. Moore compares his experiences across multiple startups to cull together a collection of seven lessons — the ones he wishes someone had shared with him back when he was treading choppy waters as a first-time founder.

Inside the surreal and lucrative two-sided marketplace of mediocre famous people.

Why Stitch Fix style curation can help make remote work actually work.

It’s officially been three years since we launched Canny. It’s always interesting for us to take a moment and reflect on what we’ve done and learned so far.

Disruption isn’t always the right strategy for startups. It’s a choice.

An executive with 8,000 indirect reports and 2000 hours of work in a year can afford to spend, at most, 15 minutes per year per person in their reporting hierarchy... even if they work on nothing else. That job seems impossible. How can anyone make any important decision in a company that large? 

Why network bridges and unique user identity are critical to building successful network-based startups

Marketing, Sales and PR

“The PayPal experience didn’t really prepare me for sales and go-to-market," so it's time to give the 'back in my day' talk on what we learned building Yammer. 

A Guide to Building Links for Early-Stage Startups.

Money and Finance

Startups of the Week

Data Science without Code. Run complex Predictions and Analytics on your data, simply by asking questions in natural language. No code. No hassle. No waiting.

Influencers, you can now have, 1:1 video calls with your followers. Set your price, availability, and share your URL. That’s it. Anyone can call you in the world, privately, without exchanging contact information.

Refiner is a customer survey tool built specifically for SaaS, eCommerce and Membership sites. Ask your users any question while they are using your product

Tips, Tools and Services

Founders get a lot of advice. Taking advice is a skill, and mastering it gives you decision superpowers. There are 4 keys to navigating advice.

GitLab is the world's largest all-remote company with over 1,200 team members located in more than 65 countries around the world. Here we share what "all-remote" really means, how it works at GitLab, some tips and tricks for remote teams, and resources to learn more.

In this article, you will learn about the 10 logo trends to try in 2020. From colors, to design, step inside to tap into the latest trends.

Our Other Newsletters

- A free weekly newsletter featuring the best hand curated news, articles, tools and libraries, new releases, jobs etc related to Python.

- A free weekly newsletter featuring the best hand curated news, articles, tools and libraries, new releases, jobs etc related to NoSQL.