Founder Weekly (Issue 503 - September 15 2021)

Founder Weekly - Issue 503

September 15, 2021

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 503 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

The traditional approach is to do some customer research, throw an MVP out there as fast as possible, and hope it hits. After being early at three startups that achieved over $1M in run-rate in their first six months of going live, Gagan Biyani has landed on an approach that’s quite different. Here’s his framework.

Here are the biggest lessons learned about first principles in entrepreneurship, highly influenced by Naval’s thinking.

A record number of employees are quitting or thinking about doing so. Organizations that take the time to learn why—and act thoughtfully—will have an edge in attracting and retaining talent.

Every company had to come up with a mobile strategy. Next up: a climate strategy and a crypto strategy.

Don’t freak out when part of your original hypothesis was wrong.

Marketing, Sales and PR

Faceted navigation (or faceted search) is a type of navigation found on the category/archive pages of sites that deal with many listings. Faceted navigation is a widely accepted UX pattern that helps users discover what they’re looking for in less time. The downside is that it comes with many potential SEO complications that you’ll need to mitigate.

Hint: If you're just setting revenue or MQL goals, you're doing it wrong

These are the 5 "acts" that winning sales demo scripts follow PLUS 5 examples to follow as you build out your script. Up-level your demo script now.

Money and Finance

Mark Suster shares his thoughts on how the venture capital industry is changing and how it may affect you.

Cheap money and power-law profits are killing venture funds and birthing venture firms.

The choice between SAFE, Convertible Note & Equity is as important as the terms.

Startups of the Week

Upflowy is a drag and drop tool to build and optimize web experiences. Easily A/B test signup experiences, sales lead funnels, customer on-boarding and much more. 

New Apprenticeship is a transformative 15-month tech apprenticeship program designed to give recent grads the skills they need to thrive in the workforce and provide employers with highly qualified and productive talent.

Tips, Tools and Services

CCOs often believe that if they’re handling the demands of managing their team—hiring, running training programs, talking with customers—they’ll be seen as a strong member of the leadership team. But then, when important company decisions are being made like a restructuring of responsibilities, they’re passed over as being “not strategic.” They’re stuck. What could they be doing differently? 

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