Founder Weekly (Issue 618 - January 3 2024)

Founder Weekly - Issue 618

January 03, 2024

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 618 of Founder Weekly. Hope you had a great holiday season & Happy New Year!

General

In this episode of Startup School, YC Group Partner Tom Blomfield discusses one of the most important elements of running any startup: metrics! Tom shares what key metrics to track and how to use them to make the best decisions for your company.

Balaji Srinivasan joins Nathan Labenz to discuss polytheistic AI and AI gods, human-AI symbiosis, and how AI will be controlled. 

This eight-step process brought WP Engine from an idea to a Unicorn. While there are other roads to Product/Market Fit, consider copying some of these ideas. 

This post provides insights into the journey of an AI startup, AskGuru, and its main value proposition of Q&A over various file formats. The founder reflects on the responsibility for the product's success or failure and expresses a commitment to supporting existing users while exploring future opportunities.

Marketing, Sales and PR

Sarah Tavel, General Partner at Benchmark and founding member of All Raise, shares insights on consumer startup growth using her Hierarchy of Engagement framework. She also discusses her Hierarchy of Marketplaces framework for building and dominating marketplace startups, emphasizing the importance of focus, measurement, and market domination strategies.

As a Gen X founder, Alice Kim didn’t think initially TikTok was for her, but she managed to see huge business growth from the platform. Learn how.

Turn Product-Led Leftovers Into a Content Super-Source.

Money and Finance

The number of active investors in US VC, which we defined as making two or more deals, plummeted by 38% in the first three quarters of 2023 compared to the same period last year, according to PitchBook data. That translates to 2,725 fewer firms making deals.

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