Founder Weekly (Issue 494 - July 14 2021)

Founder Weekly - Issue 494

July 14, 2021

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 494 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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General

From financial fraud to just running out of money, we scanned our database to identify 210 of the most expensive startup flameouts in history.

The seismic change brewing in the attention economy, and how Google, Apple and others will redesign a trillion-dollar paradigm.

$1B+ has been invested in rapid delivery startups since the pandemic accelerated the rise of online grocery. Gorillas, Getir, Flink, Zapp and other companies are working to build sustainable unit economics around delivery and build the next CVS.

Individual people are the next big asset class. 

Marketing, Sales and PR

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to find and choose long-tail keywords with high traffic potential and/or low competition (even if they have low individual search volume)

Money and Finance

As a Founder, you are the Chief Storyteller. Here are the storytelling methods we have observed in pitches that motivate VCs to invest.

Why do founders often own so little of the companies they create? It’s often because of the incentives of their investors, pressing them to raise evermore money.

The two firms invested the most money into startups so far in 2021. But how they do it is completely different.

Global data and analysis on dealmaking, funding, and exits in private-market companies.

Why Markets Are Larger Than They Appear.

Startups of the Week

A Sustainability-as-a-Service platform calculates and purchases carbon offsets to neutralize the environmental impact of everyday activities like ecommerce deliveries, ridesharing, flights, and more.

Get fit, get rewarded! Cadoo keeps you motivated, and pays you for reaching your fitness goals!

Tips, Tools and Services

How Stripe's product team uses pre-mortems to prevent major problems for important launches and initiatives.

When looking at our career as a product, we can apply many of the same principles of this system. Let's take a look.

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