Founder Weekly (Issue 466 - December 23 2020)

Founder Weekly - Issue 466

December 23, 2020

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 466 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

Dave Girouard shares the founding story of Upstart, from the startup pivot and fundraising challenges to IPO.

The American Dream exists, but what is the reality?

Tobi Lütke,, Founder and CEO of Shopify, on how he spends his time, learns and makes decisions.

While investment funds in Silicon Valley have turned the owners of many unprofitable startups into billionaires overnight, the founders of JetBrains have managed the feat without the help of venture capital.

Accenture's Fjord Trends 2021 provides insights into emerging trends in business, technology and design focused on meeting human needs. 

When assessing a social app’s potential, what does “good” look like, anyway? The most important metrics—and benchmarks to aspire to—according to the data.

Here are some lessons learned from building and growing an open source SaaS startup in the highly competitive web analytics market.

An inaugural report that highlights what changed this year and what matters most for the years ahead.

Marketing, Sales and PR

How the media creates power.

Once you get your Facebook Ads campaigns up and running, finding the right way of tracking them is key to measuring success and ROI.

Money and Finance

The idea is essentially to raise the capital in tranches using multiple valuation caps, to minimize founder dilution and to reward the earliest investors who aren’t just willing to commit, but are willing to wire the capital too.

Insights on how vertical software founders can choose their markets wisely, maintain enduring growth, and build industry-defining companies.

Building & investing in vertical networks for the new era.

Startups of the Week

EduDo is the destination for mobile learning - exciting, engaging, and easy watching on the go!

PostHog provides open-source product analytics, built for developers. Automate the collection of every event on your website or app, with no need to send data to 3rd parties. With just 1 click you can deploy on your own infrastructure, having full API/SQL access to the underlying data.

The StepZen platform enables you to quickly build an API that combines and connects data across multiple backends. Ask for the data you want via a single query to that API, and StepZen assembles the response from backend APIs.

Tips, Tools and Services

Check startup valuations in your industry.

This article offers tips on finding the right remote software developers for your startup and managing remote teams for the best results.

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