Founder Weekly (Issue 542 - June 29 2022)

Founder Weekly - Issue 542

June 29, 2022

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 542 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

Will web3 justify the hype?

It's a state, not an outcome.

Cal Henderson, CTO of Slack, creator of Flickr, and author of ‘Building Scalable Websites’ (O'Reilly Media, 2006) shares how Slack was built from both a tech and product perspective and what you should be doing to reclaim your focus time. You don’t want to miss out on hearing about the Slack tech stack from someone who is a pioneer in the use of web APIs and created the basis for OAuth and oEmbed.

Marketing, Sales and PR

Is your PLG strategy freemium or free trial? Airtable’s Head of Growth, Lauryn Isford, explains how you can have both with reverse trials.

The Growth Competency Model helps Growth leaders evaluate, provide direct feedback, and guide career development for each of their team members.

Money and Finance

Having a great relationship with your investors is always critical to your mission and success, but perhaps even more so right now, during a macroeconomic crisis. There’s an untold amount of upside in learning how to navigate and uplevel these relationships, in the good times and in bad. Here’s how.

On the shift of venture capital investing strategies and how NFT funds could be an early signal for the next and potentially final shift in strategic positioning for venture investors.

Startups of the Week

An AI platform that creates videos out of plain written text.

Build, visualize, and automate your customer-facing processes. All with one, easy-to-use solution.

Tips, Tools and Services

A simple agreement that defines a SaaS customer’s expected level of service from the product. Designed to be used with the Common Paper CSA.

Some Recommendations For Startup CEOs to Help Make Sure Your Team Member Actually Shows Up.

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