Founder Weekly (Issue 474 - February 24 2021)

Founder Weekly - Issue 474

February 24, 2021

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 474 of Founder Weekly. We have a packed issue this week. Enjoy it!

General

A deep dive into the next wave in consumer fintech — P2P marketplaces for previously private assets.

A great post by the founder of Waze on why he sold the company and how the acquisition by the Google turned out.

Why crypto is becoming the "port of entry" for all internet media.

You can start your dream job from your kitchen table.

Therapist Jessmina Archbold (publicly known as Minaa B.) shares her detailed guide to deeper self-care work, pushing back against common myths, offering up tactical advice and making the case for focusing on boundaries.

Advisors can be so much more than social proof and tactical advice.

Marketing, Sales and PR

Hidden in your articles are thousands of dollars of unclaimed revenue. Discover how a content audit can unlock it.

This article is a breakdown of Headspace's content strategy to land over 270.000 links across the web, rank for more than 100.000 keywords, and have more than 66 million signed users.

Nobody can convince people to join a community. They have to want to. 

Some key learnings based on my experience working at Box, Anaplan, Framer and Uber. Bonus: a template job desc for your first SOPs hire

Money and Finance

There are 99 problems, but they fall into different categories than you might assume.

An inside look at an opaque process.

Startups of the Week

Trade on what matters to you. Kalshi enables you to trade directly on the outcome of events. It is a new financial exchange for you to trade on your opinion and hedge everyday risks.

Online Shopping, Unboxed. 100s of your favorite fashion sites. Cardboard-free deliveries. Crazy simple returns.

Power your storage with high capacity lasers carrying data in endless loops. From rack-sized solutions, to satellites, we're bringing a new and better breed of storage to the world.

Gridware provides a grid monitoring system of sensors and software for the power distribution grid. The platform detects and predicts faults that ignite wildfires, expedites repairs during a power outage, and helps utilities demonstrate risk reduction.

Tips, Tools and Services

A Step-By-Step Guide.

Every time you switch between apps and tasks, you leave a little bit of your attention behind. Here's what you can do about it.

To make your follow-up email strategy easy for you, we have compiled a guide of follow-up emails, split into different categories based on the type of follow-up emails you’re writing.

It is necessary for a capable UX/UI designer to keep track of any changes in the industry. Here are the top UX/UI trends that you should follow in 2021.

Some practical pieces of advice for scaling your team after raising a Seed round.

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