Founder Weekly (Issue 528 - March 16 2022)

Founder Weekly - Issue 528

March 16, 2022

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 528 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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General

After publishing over half a million words on some of the world’s most innovative businesses, these are the 10 lessons I come back to again and again. You’ll find tactics from Stripe, FTX, Tiger Global, OpenSea, and other exceptional organizations.

A weeks-long investigation by The Caravan shows the Swedish company has used India’s lack of a comprehensive legal framework surrounding data protection to advance its business.

There are tons of reads on why company culture matters, but few on how to actually architect it. And it’s rarely examined at the co-founding duo, 5-person team, or 30-person startup level. Laura Del Beccaro aims to change that by sharing this 3-step framework she’s leaned on while building Sora.

The hidden underpinnings of what makes SaaS scale so nicely.

And the implications for work and cities are going to be fascinating.

Marketing, Sales and PR

This article suggests an alternate model for how fast-growing companies actually grow. Understanding the model is useful not only for predicting growth, but because understanding the foundational drivers of growth allows us to take smarter actions to create growth in our own companies.

In this article, we explain how to handle a variety of non-standard yet not atypical upgrades.

Content repurposing is when you find a new use for your existing content. Reformat them for different platforms and extend their reach.

Money and Finance

As a founder, what should you do in this new world?  Basically, hunker down and carry on — if you have enough capital.

A dictionary of common VC terms.

Startups of the Week

The fastest way to build and use AI. Mage is a tool that transforms your data into predictions. No AI experience required.

Stream any content from your phone underwater: music, podcasts, audiobooks, and our workouts. Zygo also enables live coaching. 

Tips, Tools and Services

This handbook is designed to help founders avoid common areas of confusion, by providing a solid foundation of legal knowledge.

Building a structured game plan for empowering engineers can drive your team’s scaling.

What Cognitive Flexibility Theory tells us about the acceleration of expertise in ill-structured domains.

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