Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 502 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

23 Habit-Making Insights for Product-Minded Founders

A collection of 23 insights to help Founders uncover ideas for hooks, habits, and happiness that you can build into your products.

The Growing Specialization of Product Management

Design, Engineering, and Marketing have specialities, but Product has not yet defined theirs. We talk about problems that arise when we assume all Product Managers are created equal, different types of product work, PM specialities (Core, Growth, Platform, Innovation), and emerging product specializations.

Deal Of The Century: How Michael Dell Turned His Declining PC Business Into A $40 Billion Windfall

After years battling Silicon Valley skeptics and Wall Street adversaries, Michael Dell has pulled off the deal of the century, borrowing and flipping his way to a $50 billion fortune. His biggest ambitions lie ahead—and they have nothing to do with space.

Marketing, Sales and PR

How Privy’s Integrated App Store Strategy Skyrocketed Their Growth

Privy founder and CEO, Ben Jabbawy talks about how the company evolved its distribution model (including supporting elements like tailored app store messaging and a very “human” coaching-based approach to sales) to make it easy for prospects to become customers.

The Buyer Intent Playbook: How Marketers Can Utilize Intent Data

Even great products can't sell themselves. Learn to drive demand gen, craft personalized campaigns, and encourage customer loyalty with G2 Buyer Intent.

11 examples of effective B2B email marketing (with best practices)

B2B newsletter examples to put you on the right track and tips to help you improve your email marketing strategy. Visit and learn more!

Money and Finance

How Power Works in Venture Capital

Is being Sequoia actually pretty easy?

Confessions of a Venture Capitalist

A venture capitalist on the industry’s secret views and problems and what it’s like begging “some 23-year-old little shit” to take your money.

Startups of the Week

Nansen

Identify opportunities before everyone else. Nansen analyzes and labels 100M+ Ethereum wallets and their activity. So you can separate the signal from the noise.

Adent Health

Show your mouth some love and track your dental health with Adent. The Adent app can help you and your family to analyze symptoms, receive personal dental assessments and do virtual consultations with your dental professional. 

Tips, Tools and Services

20 Underrated Qualities to Look for in Candidates — And 50+ Interview Questions to Suss Them Out

We've rounded up a curated set of attributes you may be overlooking in your hiring process — and the interview questions you can use to surface them. 

The Complete Guide to Staying Productive Using Voice Assistant

How to save time, get stuff done, and have fun with Amazon Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Google Assistant.

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