Founder Weekly (Issue 469 - January 20 2021)

Founder Weekly - Issue 469

January 20, 2021

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 469 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

Micha Kaufman, Founder & CEO of Fiverr, gives us access to the early days at Fiverr and what startup lessons he learned from idea to IPO.

Former Atlassian President Jay Simons shares the go-to-market and product strategies behind their success.

Google Safe Browsing is a Google program that can blacklist any website or SaaS application in Google Chrome and other browsers and platforms.

Marketing, Sales and PR

Ready to grow your audience in 2021? Check out our up-to-date list of 40+ facts, figures, and email marketing statistics for creators.

Cash Payback is a useful, accurate and insightful metric that will give you an edge in the way you pilot your company.

Money and Finance

Are you raising money? Get a tailored and comprehensive list of venture firms for your startup’s next round.

NFX is making public the fundraising playbooks we share with our portfolio Founders.

Learn why and when the investors and founders are motivated to do it, how to price it, who should participate, tax consequences and more.

Insights From Co-Investments in ~70K Transactions Between 2010 and 2020.

The sudden arrival of the global pandemic has shifted the playbook for founders and venture capitalists. Here’s what we’ve seen from our own activity, the activity of our coinvestors, and multiple interviews conducted with GPs at both seed, series A, and multi-stage funds.

Startups of the Week

Safekeep the thoughts and memories that define you with your personal AI

Easy and accurate software that predicts demand for products before and after launch. With Artificial Intelligence, Simporter provides everything you need to be the first mover in your market.

Tips, Tools and Services

Too often, the conventional wisdom imparted to entrepreneurs is to treat board meetings as a necessary evil, part of the price you pay for raising money. While it's true that many boards are dysfunctional, when you build a great startup board, it will be a powerful tool that can help the CEO make the company successful. Reid Hoffman shares insights from his career as an entrepreneur, investor, and board member.

Measure and improve your customers' ability to be successful with your product by tracking these 8 key SaaS customer success metrics.

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