Founder Weekly (Issue 529 - March 23 2022)

Founder Weekly - Issue 529

March 23, 2022

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 529 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

From Stripe to Notion, Cristina Cordova has worked on some of the biggest products in tech. Now a Partner at First Round, she shares tactical tidbits on what she’s learned about about scaling companies and shaping your career.

It’s no surprise that payments is a business open to great disruption by fintech companies. Traditional payment systems were built long ago and customer expectations have evolved quickly and dramatically along with the technological advancements we’ve experienced in our personal lives. The future of payments will be shaped by many of the trends outlined in this paper.

Jules Walter unravels the mystery that is product sense. He shares a ton of actionable and practical advice to develop your product sense, explains what product sense is, how to know if you’re getting better, and dives deep into four concrete ways to build this skill with a bunch of examples from his own experience.

The latest edition includes data from a broad set of academic, private, and nonprofit organizations as well as more self-collected data and original analysis than any previous  editions, including an expanded technical performance chapter, a new survey of robotics researchers around the world, data on global AI legislation records in 25 countries, and a new chapter with an in-depth analysis of technical AI ethics metrics.

Learnings From a Decade Investing In These Types of Leaders.

Marketing, Sales and PR

We walk through what the metaverse is, how you can access all sorts of virtual worlds, and where the brand potential lies in this emerging space.

Money and Finance

The amount of money you have in the bank doesn’t have to dictate your burn rate. Your underlying business metrics should.

Just because a VC reaches out to you, doesn’t mean they’re interested in investing in your startup, let alone know your industry. The key is to realize it’s a VCs job to build a network of relationships with founders. But now it’s your job to vet these relationships, while focusing on building a company and achieving product market fit at this early stage.

Global venture funding in February 2022 fell by $10 billion month over month, clocking in at $52 billion, based on an analysis of Crunchbase data, as startup investors seem to be coming off last year’s highs and assessing the impact of the Ukrainian conflict, record inflation and public-market turmoil.  

Startups of the Week

Ditch the wallet door-checks. With NFT Access, NFTs become easy and secure gateways to events and experiences around the world, even if you've already created your NFTs.

The Operating System for Payments and Financial Services.

Tips, Tools and Services

This article describes 17 of what I think are the most common and influential aspects of how people think.

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