Founder Weekly (Issue 496 - July 82021)

Founder Weekly - Issue 496

July 28, 2021

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 496 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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General

While there are many exceptions, Reid Hoffman believes pursuing an MBA can generally be adverse signal for entrepreneurship. Instead, he encourages prospective entrepreneurs gain real-world experience by working at a startup and pursuing other courses of study that help form fundamental critical thinking skills.

We are the ones creating these massive network effect businesses. So it's up to us to write new social contracts for the people who use them.

Why it matters for startups to have a strong "why now"—and also why it doesn't.

Back-alley firms meddle in elections and promote falsehoods on behalf of clients who can claim deniability, escalating our era of unreality.

Facebook’s CEO on why the social network is becoming ‘a metaverse company’.

Marketing, Sales and PR

This playbook explains how to acquire customers through LinkedIn.

Here's the playbook to show you how to bring your startup to global markets with our Go-to-Market strategies. We bring you step-by-step, from understanding why you are launching your product to creating a team to reach your end customers, and make your global expansion a whole lot easier.

A breakdown of OpenView's 2021 SaaS Product Benchmarks report

Money and Finance

10 Reasons You Didn’t Get the Best Investors.

Climate tech has significantly evolved since the first cleantech investment craze of the early 2000s. Today a growing group of investors is tackling one overarching global threat: climate change.

Startups of the Week

Miles is a universal rewards app empowering anyone to earn miles automatically for all forms of travel and commute. Similar to a frequent flyer program, but for all forms of transportation, Miles delivers value for every mile traveled, across every mode of travel, anywhere in the world.

Coinrule catches the next market opportunity on your behalf by automating your investments.

Tips, Tools and Services

You've raised a new funding round. You need to staff up. Here's what that looks like.

If you’ve found yourself struggling with either, or if you simply want to make the most out of the feedback you’re giving and receiving, here are the few phrases I’ve learned and used that have been helpful.

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