Founder Weekly (Issue 461 - November 18 2020)

Founder Weekly - Issue 461

November 18, 2020

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 461 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

How to pick your next startup.

Ayo Omojola shares his lessons for going unreasonably deep when building products in heavily-regulated industries like healthcare and financial services with Carbon Health and Cash App.

In this analysis with Prof. Tom Eisenmann at Harvard Business School, we uncover the 6 counterintuitive startup failure patterns.

Women get fired and apologize while men get praised for "intensity".

What makes you new, different, and unique in the world will often be the exact thing that makes you succeed. Embrace your differences, and you’ll find something amazing in there. Learn how founders like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Ryan Petersen of Flexport, and Jack Conte of Patreon did exactly that: learn things from unique personal experiences that put them on the right path.

By embracing uncertainty and making timely pivots, we visualize the bizarre origin stories of the most successful tech companies today.

Data for objective decision making at the expansion stage.

Marketing, Sales and PR

A post that took 240+ hours to research.

Google Discover is an automatically generated, highly personalized mobile feed that shows information and news based on your online activity. In this post, learn how to get more traffic from Google Discover.

This post looks at a few different ways to estimate LTV and tries to explain why your LTV might be higher (or lower) than you think.

Email subject lines must compel people to open your emails, otherwise they'll never get to your persuasive copy and great offer.

Money and Finance

Pitching to a VC and pitching an Angel Investor require very different approaches. This talk will walk you through how to find Angel Investors and VCs, how to reach out to Angel Investors and VCs and how to pitch Angel Investors and VCs.

Mark Suster from Upfront explains why the best time to talk to founders about fundraising is 3-4 months after their last fundraise.  

How I think about "Brand" and its relation to fund size.

Startups of the Week

Productivity magic in your inbox. OthersideAI takes in a simple summary of what you want to say and generates a perfect email in your unique style.

Mozart Data is a one-stop shop for setting up and optimizing a modern data platform. If you have data spread across a variety of SaaS tools like Shopify, Salesforce, or Zendesk, Mozart collects and organizes that data, making it accessible in whichever data-visualization tool you like.

Capbase streamlines and automates many parts of your business, freeing up your time and capital to focus on growing your startup.

Stop wasting time building custom dashboards and one-off requests. Create beautiful, configurable dashboards that embed directly in your app.

Tips, Tools and Services

How a top venture capitalist uses Airtable to build a Personal CRM.

An inside look at the streamlined jobs-to-be-done framework (and templates) used by product leaders at Instagram and Facebook.

Exploring compensation frameworks for distributed teams: Buffer, GitLab, Basecamp...Why is remote compensation so complicated?

How to focus on one thing at a time, get more done, and feel less stressed.

Read what is design consistency, why it is important, what types of consistency exist, and how to reach it in an app or website you design.

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