Founder Weekly (Issue 511 - November 10 2021)

Founder Weekly - Issue 511

November 10, 2021

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 511 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

It took us a year to reach the first $400 MRR and then it took us nine months to go from $400 to $10k MRR. Now, ten months after the $10k milestone, we’re at $500,000 ARR. Here’s a brief overview of who we are and how we got here.

After 20 years of executive coaching, Alisa Cohn shares advice for getting better at self-reflection, collecting feedback, and changing behavior.

You can't decentralize the web. You can only kill old winners and pick new ones. Here's how. 

This report provides an analysis of the results of a survey of private SaaS companies which KBCM Technology Group’s software investment banking team conducted in June and July 2021.

Marketing, Sales and PR

After more than a decade of running B2B growth teams at PayPal and investing at 500 Startups, Matt Lerner now spends his days helping early-stage startups with growth. He's seen firsthand how changes in a handful of words can yield jaw-dropping differences in conversion — and accelerate a startup's course to product/market fit. Here, he makes the case for starting with language/market fit first, and offers up his 4-step process for getting there.

Usage-based pricing is a hot trend, but does it deliver? The answer—according to our recent study—appears to be yes.

What makes for a good pricing page?  It’s a challenging question because most of us don’t have the volume to really do A/B tests (although try, of course).  We have to at least start by copying best practices from the leaders. A few thoughts at least — mainly about what to copy from the big leaders, and what to maybe not copy from them.

Money and Finance

The rise of the full stack VC model.

Redpoint Ventures partner Logan Bartlett on VC in a world of ubiquitous capital.

Startups of the Week

Vint is a SEC-qualified platform allowing investors to buy shares in collections of fine wine, spirits, and similar offerings.

Equipifi is the BNPL solution for banks and credit unions.

Tips, Tools and Services

A conversation with Oyster’s Head of Remote on how distributed teamwork is transforming the field of HR forever.

Over the last few months, a new workplace conversation has overshadowed any hand wringing about the return to offices: the problem of keeping the employees you have. Asheem Chandna from Greylock shares the three things CEOs should do to win the startup talent war.

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