Founder Weekly (Issue 460 - November 11 2020)

Founder Weekly - Issue 460

November 11, 2020

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 460 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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General

If you can find a valuable market which has been overlooked, or where your competitors are lazy or stuck in their ways, you can beat that competition, no matter how big or rich those other players might be.

Why do some networks succeed and others fail? One consistent pattern of successful networks is that they have scarcity early on so that people can signal status, and then over time the network moves toward providing more utility. Humans are hard-wired for status games, so product builders would be wise to understand how status & scarcity function.

And The Reasons Physical Goods and Software Businesses Aren't That Different.

Our everyday activities are vulnerable to the effects of mind wandering. Failing to focus our attention when we drift can be costly. Understand what is mind-wandering and how you can gain from this inner activity.

Marketing, Sales and PR

Do you think a Topic Cluster can impact the traffic to your website? Let me show what I've done and how I increased my website traffic.

As of October 2019, there were 1.72 billion websites on the Internet. Follow these steps to gain higher quality organic backlinks for your site.

Increase your conversion rates in days (not weeks). Ditch the old for this new SaaS Sales funnel process. It works at all stages of your buyer’s journey.

Is your site ready for the big Google algorithm update in 2021? Here are seven user page experience aspects to focus on and how to optimize them.

Money and Finance

In this special episode of Origins, we discuss new VC fund structures with Sahil Lavingia, the founder of Gumroad and manager of one of the top rolling funds on AngelList, and Steve Schlafman, who combines professional coaching through his firm High Output with active angel investing using a traditional fund on AngelList.

Most industries have unwritten rules that are shocking when you first learn of them. Often, these rules are so widespread that they become calcified and beyond negotiation. Today, we focus on an unwritten rule in venture capital—legal fees.

This post illuminates some of the subtleties involved in negotiating term sheets as an entrepreneur. First and foremost: founder vesting agreements, followed by pro rata rights.

Venture debt is heating up as more entrepreneurs look for alternative ways to access capital. This post explains what it is, how it stacks up against venture capital, and why a private company might consider it.

Startups of the Week

Provizio is an accident prevention technology company that uses AI software and a five-dimensional sensory platform to prevent accidents.

Turning Checkout Into Walkout. AI-powered checkout, service & operations, built for limited-service

AI for everyone. A simple, visual, easy-to-use platform that enables anyone to build and deploy AI in minutes.

Transforms any commercial real estate space into affordable, flexible, and socially engaging hotels and co-living properties. 

Tips, Tools and Services

Get a better approximation of your true customer LTV.

The Founders of Trulia, Cloudflare, Eventbrite, Product Hunt, Udemy, Virta and Getaround share their highest leverage time management techniques.

Ways to make digital products more accessible, usable, and user friendly for everyone.

Despite great diversity in the workflows and end users supported by complex applications, these 8 design guidelines are generally applicable.

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