Founder Weekly (Issue 459 - November 4 2020)

Founder Weekly - Issue 459

November 04, 2020

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 459 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

This course will run for 6 weeks and is designed for students, engineers, creatives and anyone who is thinking about founding a startup at some point, but not actively working on one right now.

Welcome to the Consumerization of Investing.

Molly Graham shares her collection of rules for managers (which include references to robots and wilderness medicine), assembled from her experiences scaling Lambda School, Quip and Facebook.

A talk that explains "why" and "what" we built to track and collaborate on work at Shopify.

Offer something for free, at a lower price, or make it much more convenient to use. 

The 2020 report allows the open source hardware world to collectively identify what is working, share insights, and rally around shared challenges.  It distills lessons learned and describes the collective understanding of the state of open source hardware. 

Marketing, Sales and PR

Your in-depth guide to making freemium work. Featuring expert insights, videos, and tips from Hubspot, ProfitWell, Mixpanel, and Typeform.

Want to boost your sales and close more deals? 20 sales experts share their best tips on using sales analysis data to generate more revenue.

Want to create successful business proposals? Learn from the findings collected from over 180,000 business proposals to make yours win.

The author sent over 100 cold emails — using both manual and automated outreach methods — to land himself some guest posting opportunities. Here’s what he learned from the experiment.

Money and Finance

The market you choose to serve is one of the most important factors for an early-stage startup. And for most technologists, it’s a blind spot. To help, we wanted to share one way of thinking about the market.

The importance of telling your authentic story and not trying to play to your audience. It's just too important to be aligned with your partners: spend the time finding the true believers.

This post outlines the current state of the femtech market and share insights around key trends driving the industry. 

Startups of the Week

SKAEL helps companies fully automate repetitive B2B functions, through easy integrations to hundreds of enterprise systems, while harnessing insights.

Snowball Wealth gives you the tools to tackle student debt, so you can start saving and investing. Our student debt recommendation evaluates all of your options so you can pay down your student debt effectively.

Hologram software, production & hardware company featuring The World’s 1st Life-Sized Single-Passenger HoloPortation Machine!

Tips, Tools and Services

This is advice for people who have done scientific research at a university and are considering starting a company to commercialize it.

Feeling burned out? Here's how to leverage priorities, positive constraints, and psychology to avoid a long-term funk.

Learn user-first design with practical skills and tools so you can build better digital experiences.

Copy is the words businesses and people use to sell something. And copywriting is salesmanship in print. Get the skinny on what copywriting means here.

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