Founder Weekly (Issue 610 - November 1 2023)

Founder Weekly - Issue 610

November 01, 2023

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 610 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

Eric Ries, the Lean Startup methodology creator, author, and founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, discusses the current state of Lean Startup, misconceptions, MVPs, pivot decisions, AI, core values, and his big idea, the Long-Term Stock Exchange in this wide-ranging conversation.

Most Retrieval Augmented Demos on the internet are great demoware, and little more.

Sharing our mental model on gen AI in SaaS.

During the boom times, I launched a start-up so I could become rich. Years later, I’m still looking for my exit.

Aaron Epstein and Pete Koomen discuss the importance of good design in websites. They emphasize that a website is like a journey, and the landing page is just the first step. The goal is to convince visitors to dig deeper and ultimately sign up or purchase your product. They also cover some of the seemingly small things in a page’s design that can ultimately have huge impacts.

Marketing, Sales and PR

Explore the significance of measuring marketing ROI and learn how to analyze and leverage this key metric for your business’s success.

Learn how programmatic SEO works (even if you can't write code).

Money and Finance

We are in the middle of a big reset where the percentage of Seed stage companies that graduate to Series A rounds will drop dramatically, with implications for founders and VCs.

A comprehensive guide to mergers and acquisitions that provides an overview of the M&A process, including valuation, due diligence, and integration. 

The most comprehensive guide to close operations and redistribute capital for a venture-backed Delaware C-Corporation.

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