Founder Weekly (Issue 632 - April 10 2024)

Founder Weekly - Issue 632

April 10, 2024

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 632 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

Veteran legal executive Irene Liu provides a comprehensive guide on the startup legal roadmap and how to engage lawyers as you scale. She offers insider advice on hiring outside and in-house counsel and building strong founder-lawyer partnerships.

What the Industrial Revolution Was to Physical Production, the AI Revolution Is to Digital Production.

Marketing, Sales and PR

My secret trick for justifying higher prices & loading times.

The article discusses the importance of understanding customer acquisition cost (CAC) payback time, especially for early-stage SaaS companies with less data on long-term customer retention and lifetime value (LTV). It explores the different questions and considerations around calculating CAC payback time to inform strategic decisions about customer acquisition spending.

Apollo's rocketship growth is in-part attributed to its SEO strategy, which leverages programmatic SEO (pSEO) to build and scale thousands of templated pages that draw in more than 430,000 organic visits to the Apollo domain each month.

Stripe created a blog post that brings in almost a million dollars of traffic per year. Find out how they did it and how you can learn from their success.

Money and Finance

Valuations and round sizes rose at most stages in Q1 2024.

The first quarter of 2024 was the second-lowest on record for global startup funding since the beginning of 2018, according to an analysis of Crunchbase data. Global venture funding reached $66 billion in the first quarter, up 6% quarter over quarter but down 20% year over year, Crunchbase data shows.

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