Founder Weekly (Issue 449 - August 26 2020)

Founder Weekly - Issue 449

August 26, 2020

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 449 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

We've analyzed why +80 startups have failed and identified some of their common mistakes. Here're our findings!

One VP of Product outlines his tactics for an action-driven product team, from PMs who sell, to variable comp, to moving onboarding to the product org.

Why Understanding Failure Can Lead to Success.

Marketing, Sales and PR

Breaking down the strategies Notion has used to build a $2 billion company, grow to 1 million users, pull in 20M+ site visits monthly and hit 40,000 referring domains in < 4 years.

CEO and Co-founder Howie Liu explains why Airtable's been bottom-up from the start.

How to systematically measure and drive Word of Mouth acquisition.

In this article we share top 10 cold calling tips from real sales expert that are proven to work in 2020 and will help you book more meetings.

Money and Finance

This post covers some of the main sections of a term sheet, why it matters, and an example as a founder.

How to think through your company’s option program.

The seed round is usually devoted to finding your product-market fit, meaning you start with no or little product and should end with a demonstrably retentive and growing population of users. It’s this growth stretch that this post shows you how to plan — and once you do that, you’ll have a clear timeline for your seed.

Uncover how venture funding has fared globally since the start of the pandemic.

Startups of the Week

Control your web apps with one command line. Increase speed, get things done and become 10x more productive.

AI-driven product recommendations for any e-commerce store.

Hubble monitors your data warehouse for data quality issues and alerts you when things go wrong.

Tips, Tools and Services

A long-read about 8 cognitive and social biases, their underlying research and how to (hopefully) reduce their impact.

Core Web Vitals are a set of metrics defined by Google to help webmasters understand the performance of their websites. You can automate the measurement and tracking of core vitals with Google Sheets.

The trend toward optimization is disempowering employees.

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