Founder Weekly (Issue 471 - February 3 2021)

Founder Weekly - Issue 471

February 03, 2021

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 471 of Founder Weekly. An exciting well funded early stage startup is looking for experienced 

Full-Stack Engineers

 with strong 

Python

 and 

React

 expertise. They are a remote-first company, but you need to be within +/- 4 hours of PT. If you or someone you know are interested, send me the latest resume and mention the candidate's location.

General

A chat with Mike Krieger,the co-founder of Instagram, to find out how Instagram got from an idea to a global platform used by over a billion people. From how Mike met his co-founder Kevin Systrom, their pivot from Burbn to Instagram, controversial decisions along the way and how they evolved the product. Mike also shares advice for founders and reflects on Instagram's legacy.

Bannerbear has hit 10K MRR — this post documents the decisions and pivots that got to this milestone.

A gaggle of disruptive brands is deftly targeting consumers born between 1997 and 2012.

Marketing, Sales and PR

The most succinct and practical guide to nailing your product’s positioning.

Businesses that figure out how to leverage TikTok will have an advantage in building brand awareness, cultivating user trust, and efficiently acquiring customers.

It depends on what you mean by “secret,” and also “success.”

Find out strategies for marketing, sales & customer success, and product teams of a SaaS product to improve their Net Promoter Score (NPS).

This article covers how pricing can improve customer retention for your SaaS business. Learn what metrics to use in 2021 and more!

Learn a simple (and repeatable) 8-step process for planning and executing successful SEO campaigns, in any industry.

Money and Finance

What you should know at seed stage.

Funding for creative technology solutions hasn’t dried up, but a few tweaks to your virtual fundraising process can increase your chances of closing a deal.

Startups of the Week

Making low cost versions of high cost generic drugs with radical price transparency.

All-in-one identity infrastructure for any business. Persona's identity platform helps businesses securely collect, verify, manage, and make decisions about customers' identities from one place.

A try-before-you-buy platform for online merchants.

All-in-one banking data API for building powerful banking, lending and finance apps.

Tips, Tools and Services

An intro to how we do product at Miro.

A solid product analytics stack is the foundation of data-driven culture. Behavioral data enables a development team to track results, connect feature improvements to outcomes, and measure progress to inform decision making. But, in the early days, how and when should founders invest in their startup's product analytics stack?

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