Founder Weekly (Issue 465 - December 16 2020)

Founder Weekly - Issue 465

December 16, 2020

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 465 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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General

It’s lonely at the top. It’s even lonelier to be an entrepreneur. But you don’t have to go through this struggle alone. Reid Hoffman on why it’s so lonely to be an entrepreneur, how he dealt with this challenge through both success (LinkedIn) and failure (SocialNet), and how entrepreneurs can find allies and aid in their struggle against loneliness.

James Currier, NFX Partner, lays out the underlying patterns to help Founders make the best choice on where to start a company.

Hear lessons about building a remote team, practical guidelines on how to compensate and hire these teams, and also what the future of San Francisco might be as a state of mind.

Pete Flint, Founding CEO at Trulia and NFX Partner, is making public his playbooks for building world-class teams.

Prioritize buying to building, unless building will provide a real sustainable advantage for the business. Reducing the long term operational burden is one of the easiest ways to maintain developer velocity and happiness over time, and reduce costs for an organization as well.

Let’s stop worrying about Silicon Valley, it will be fine, and start celebrating the rise of tech entrepreneurship everywhere. That is a profound thing for the world and something to be incredibly happy about.

Six lessons from building and selling our startup

Marketing, Sales and PR

Team plans are where the money is. Individual plans are good for lead gen.

This is the complete breakdown of Adobe's marketing strategy that made one of the most remarkable business pivots of the last decade.

How to analyze direct traffic in Google Analytics if the arrival session data is missing? Almost 20 marketing pros give their best tips on analyzing direct traffic in GA

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Money and Finance

10 VC Archetypes and Who to Put on Your Board.

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Fundraising in 2020 has been tough for many founders. Read Brent Franson's story and process of how he successfully raised a seed round for Most Days, during the pandemic.

Startups of the Week

Learn from the world’s best entrepreneurs, youtubers & creators through a new podcasting experience.

A new marketplace for sports card buyers and sellers. Bulk ship your cards to our vault. Buy and sell instantly with exceptionally low fees.

Wikifactory is where ideas get made. Design, collaborate, prototype and produce real products all-in-one place, with just a laptop and an internet connection.

Tips, Tools and Services

What is managing up and how do you build a good relationship with your boss? Here are the best tips for managing up at work.

Competitive analysis is the process of identifying and researching your competitors to get the information you need to gain a competitive advantage. 

It's no secret that customers believe limited-availability items are more valuable. Get inspired by these 10 examples of scarcity in action.

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