Founder Weekly (Issue 443 - July 8 2020)

Founder Weekly - Issue 443

July 08, 2020

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 443 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

You think you need a COO. What you really need is an operating philosophy.

After four decades of investing in the industry, Bessemer offers the guiding principles for healthcare founders, executives, providers, payers, employers and patients who are building tomorrow's innovations and systems of care.

A business model that seemed marginal before the coronavirus pandemic now looks like the future of restaurants.

The software you use says something about you. Today’s breakout software uses that to build a tribe.

Five steps to selling innovation and avoiding the status-quo death trap.

Houston-based Solugen is making cheaper, more effective industrial chemicals to help scrub everything from pools and hot tubs to oil and gas companies’ wastewater. 

Marketing, Sales and PR

Lessons from Figma, Stripe, Airtable, Shopify, Carta, Gusto and many many more.

The journey from one sale to one hundred starts with you.

Money and Finance

The DocSend Fundraising Network uses a data-driven approach to provide warm intros between quality founders and active VCs who match their needs.

Despite the turmoil of an ongoing pandemic, global venture funding for the second quarter of 2020 was not as dire as we expected, but it was down from previous years.

As the venture capital industry pumped the brakes on dealmaking, a handful of investors are taking a different tack.

Startups of the Week

TuSimple is a self-driving technology company making it possible for heavy-duty trucks to operate autonomously on highways and surface streets

Build Your Fashion Brand. CALA makes it easy to design, produce, and deliver your own fully-custom apparel.

Get to the meeting you’re supposed to be in, no more sifting through calendars and chasing links!.

Vercel is the optimal workflow for frontend teams. All-in-one: Static and Jamstack deployment, Serverless Functions, and Global CDN.

LuminDx is elevating doctors around the world to evaluate skin conditions at the level expert dermatologists using computer vision and AI.

Tips, Tools and Services

Users don't just want personalized experiences—they expect them. Here are 9 exceptional examples of personalized product experiences from B2C and B2B apps to inspire your product team and help you start designing more customized, bespoke UX for your own users.

Information architecture is the process of categorizing and organizing information to create structure and meaning. To give this context, this article explores not only the basics of information architecture, but also the broader view of the information age, how we use information and how it impacts our world and our lives. Understanding the bigger picture enables us to get a much clearer perception of the value that good information architecture delivers to help our information-overloaded lives.

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