Founder Weekly (Issue 439 - June 10 2020)

Founder Weekly - Issue 439

June 10, 2020

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 439 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

This is part 1 of a series where I’ll look at the future costs of clean energy and mobility technologies.

A millionaire at 34 and bigger than “Sunday Night Football,” China’s star saleswoman Viya rules a $60 billion world of live online shopping.

The traits that make marketplaces scalable and defensible also affect the ease of reaching critical mass — Side switching is a key feature that disadvantaged marketplaces can use to mitigate liquidity challenges.

In this post, David Perell shares 50 ideas that changed his life. These are his guiding principles and the light of his intellectual life. All of them will help you think better, and hope they inspire curiosity.

Marketing, Sales and PR

Growth Marketing Strategies for B2B SaaS Founders.

Learn how to frame your product the right way and crush the market you're in. See how Zoom, Drift, Hootsuite and Gainsight achieved success through product positioning.

When you think about profitable business opportunities, mobile apps for parenting are probably not the first thing that comes to mind. But the Wachanga team manages to prosper, attract investments, and keep global leaders on their toes. Learn how in this post.

We tested the effectiveness of Gamification in email marketing and sharing the results and mechanics of building AMP questionnaires for your campaigns.

Money and Finance

Open source projects have long battled with how to finance themselves. PostHog is lucky to have significant funding and wanted to share what we did to help other cool projects take off.

The state of fundraising in the spring of 2020, in 12 simple charts.

Startups of the Week

Vital, On-Demand Delivery for the World. Enabled by the fastest and most experienced drone delivery service.

Your therapist search, made simple. Advekit is a free, online matching service for you to find the best suited therapist to your needs.

Searchable.ai is a conversational search engine for your stuff. With information spread across emails, chats, cloud content and traditional files, Searchable.ai makes it easy to find exactly what you need, no matter where it’s stored.

Element5 provides automation solutions to Homecare and Hospice providers leveraging AI and RPA technologies.

Digital banking for freelancers. Stay in control. Save on taxes. No account fees and no minimum balance.

TaxProper saves homeowners thousands on their property taxes. File your risk-free property tax appeal in under five minutes today.

Tips, Tools and Services

Here are 40 pro tips for writing microcopy.

After talking with thousands of product teams, we've discovered seven wide-spread pitfalls that slow teams down and impact product quality. Check it out!

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