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Founder Weekly (Issue 578 - March 15 2023)

Founder Weekly (Issue 578 - March 15 2023)

Founder Weekly - Issue 578

March 15, 2023

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 578 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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General

How Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by NOT Going to the Cloud

While Ahrefs uses AWS benefits for hosting our frontend in different parts of the world, the vast majority of Ahrefs’ infrastructure iceberg hides in the colocation with owned hardware. Ahrefs wouldn’t be profitable, or even exist, if our products were 100% on AWS.

My biggest takeaways after doing my 1st and 2nd startups

There's a lot more but these are the biggest takeaways.

How I Built This In Public: Marko Saric

Lessons from building Plausible Analytics to $1.2m ARR in public.

March 2023 State of Cloud Software Spending

Software’s third wave — how embedded apps are changing product design

Marketing, Sales and PR

The 3 Phases of Product-Led Growth: The Triple Whale Method

Product love is unmistakable. But it doesn't just happen. It's engineered. You can create product-led growth with a three-part framework.

How sales-led B2B SaaS can become more product led without freemium or a free trial

Money and Finance

Can My Open Source Company Raise Series A?