Founder Weekly (Issue 525 - February 23 2022)

Founder Weekly - Issue 525

February 23, 2022

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 525 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

A lot of early-stage Founders ask us: What metrics really matter in my startup? After investing in hundreds of companies and building 10+ ourselves, we always come back to 5 core metrics for technology startups.

Ali Ghodsi, DataBricks CEO and Co-Founder, breaks down the evolution of DataBricks’ business model and the company’s go-forward vision as a broader platform for data scientists and ML engineers. And he offers advice for founders trying to build a company out of an open-source project.

From the widespread embrace of crypto and NFTs to the proliferation of DAOs and the numerous innovations in blockchain-based infrastructure and storage, the new computing paradigm of Web3 is quickly becoming mainstream.

This entrepreneurship course will teach you the important lessons that they don't teach you in business school. You will learn about topics such as how to network, how to find customers, and how to get a job.

Marketing, Sales and PR

No one marketing platform can handle it all. Or be the best at everything. That’s why marketers need to build martech stacks with various tools. Here’s how.

A compilation of product-led marketing approaches with examples from well-known companies like Hotjar, Zapier, Miro, Ahrefs, SafetyCulture, and Grammarly. Repurpose one or more of these approaches to kickstart your PLG flywheel.

The most consistent sales leader I’ve worked with hit plan 27 consecutive quarters. How can a sales leader develop similar repeatability? Much goes into it here are the reports he used to manage his team at the board level.

How exactly did Toast survive the darkest days of the pandemic and emerge on the other side, ready for launch? And how did they keep their clients engaged when restaurateurs across the nation (and globe) were largely tightening their purse strings?

Layering on enterprise sales to a bottoms-up motion can be a breakthrough, or it can be a dangerous pitfall if not implemented well—these six lessons are proven best practices to launch an enterprise go-to-market engine in a PLG company.

Money and Finance

There’s a Specific Strategy For Getting Capital When Sentiment Turns Sour.

To help investors, founders, and employees make decisions and benchmark past performance, Carta regularly shares insights from our private market data. Here’s what we saw in 2021.

Startups of the Week

Grupa pairs cross-functional product teams made up of employees from FAANG companies with startups that need to scale quickly.

Bardeen saves you time by automating repetitive tasks with a shortcut. It combines a powerful workflow builder, AI-based recommendations, and contextual automation.

Tips, Tools and Services

Take control of engineering team interruptions and prevent them from happening ever again.

Get familiar with these 7 mental models in business to not only start a business but also to stay in business.

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