Founder Weekly (Issue 592 - June 28 2023)

Founder Weekly - Issue 592

June 28, 2023

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 592 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

Why Systems of Intelligence are still the next defensible business model.

Why Your ‘Bad’ Idea Might Actually Be the Best One.

Leveraging strengths – not “fixing weaknesses” – is how to win. Better when differentiated. Best when durable. Here’s how to create leverage.

Marketing, Sales and PR

How Dini Mehta grew sales to $100M at Lattice.

In this podcast episode on Lenny's Podcast, Sri Batchu, co-founder of RAMP and former executive at Instacart and Opendoor, shares valuable lessons learned from scaling companies, including insights into product-market fit, team building, and navigating the challenges of hyper-growth in the startup world.

The article provides repair tips for addressing leaky conversion funnels in a concise and actionable manner.

Cello’s Stefan Bader on how to make user referrals a cost-efficient B2B growth engine.

Money and Finance

In this post, we’ll lay out some of our methods transparently, for the benefit of founders and peers who interact with us. Here’s what we have learned from our financial and operational evaluations of many Series A SaaS companies.

Rather than continuing to hammer on the question of whether a business is or isn’t venture scale, we might be better served asking whether a company and its team are right for venture risk. The likelihood of venture scale is negligible, but the reality of venture risk is universally present once the wire hits.

How you should think about protecting your life's work.

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