Founder Weekly (Issue 660 October 30 2024)

Founder Weekly - Issue 660

October 30, 2024

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 660 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

How to turn ideas into progress.

In this second annual report, we examine the health tech sector's resilience and recovery across public and private markets, with a focus on scaling early stage companies in the age of AI.

What Even Is "Founder/Market Fit"?

Marketing, Sales and PR

The article outlines nine essential growth frameworks that help streamline and enhance business strategies, emphasizing their significance in achieving sustainable growth. Each framework is briefly summarized, providing insights into concepts like growth loops, the adjacent user theory, and opinionated defaults, along with links for deeper exploration.

A deep dive from our data scientist has uncovered some fascinating patterns in Instagram reach and engagement — and how they've evolved over the years. 

Because anything that could build ICP pipeline is fair game.

Money and Finance

The article argues that seed valuations don't behave like traditional company valuations, showing unusual stability and insensitivity to factors like interest rates and public market comparables. Instead, the author suggests that seed valuations may be more closely linked to the value of human capital, behaving similarly to tech worker wages but growing at an accelerated rate.

Investing where cards are being shuffled.

The Q3 2024 Global M&A Report provides an overview of key factors shaping global mergers & acquisitions, breaking down the industry by region and vertical.

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