Founder Weekly (Issue 574 - February 15 2023)

Founder Weekly - Issue 574

February 15, 2023

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 574 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

Most Silicon Valley companies never get to profitability. Here's how we did it at Slab and what we learned along the way.

Seven research studies reveal the traits and experiences that influence the decision to start a business. 

Banking, healthcare, telcos, how API-first businesses are now eating old industries by connecting and abstracting legacy software and outdated protocols.

Are you ready to hire a data scientist? Mengying Li, Growth Data Science Lead at Notion, shares her framework for testing whether you should invest in this key hire and how to find the right data science skillset for your startup.

Marketing, Sales and PR

What we can learn about go-to-market motions, product-led growth, icebergs, and content strategy from a $26b consumer design platform. 

At this stage of technology advancement, most of the good SaaS ideas are already taken. There are still green fields, but the fundraising rampage of the last few years has birthed viable startups in almost every category. Unless you’re lucky enough to be the first and strongest entrant in your sector, you will need to fight a bigger competitor. Let’s talk about a few of the ways to challenge a larger incumbent. Let’s talk about how to do it.

Uscreen, a proud bootstrapped company, shares lessons about growing a product-led business with $20 million in ARR and 8.5 million users.

Money and Finance

The Collective Hallucination of Oncoming Capital.

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