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Founder Weekly - Issue 668
Founder Weekly
Welcome to issue 668 of Founder Weekly. Happy New Year! I hope you had great holidays and took some time off to recharge. :-)
General
David Senra, host of Founders podcast, explores common principles behind successful individuals' stories. The summary highlights key lessons, including the importance of resilience, powerful relationships, avoiding self-pity, and understanding generational influences in shaping success.
How Eight Sleep Co-Founder Alex Zatarain Built a Company That Pioneered the ‘Sleep Fitness’ Category
A practical guide on how to position your brand to build not just a business, but an entire movement.
For the 5th year in a row, 50 of technology's top thinkers weigh in on the year ahead.
The two main business modalities are more different than you expect. When you hit PMF, it’s a culture-shift to switch from one to the other.
The article explains startup board control, emphasizing its importance for founders. It covers board structure at different funding stages, strategies to maintain control (like negotiating seats and choosing investors wisely), and the rare possibility of obtaining super voting rights in exceptional cases.
Marketing, Sales and PR
How Databricks, Stripe, Notion and more built their GTM engine.
Why we’re seeing a rise in output and input based pricing models relative to SaaS.
Money and Finance
The capital markets for private tech companies are sorely outdated. Expect this to change as today’s venture giants seize an opportunity to become multi-strategy institutional asset managers.
A VC’s Take on Equity-for-Service Models.
The article updates key metrics for evaluating early-stage enterprise VC fund performance, including seed graduation rates, pro-rata accessibility, and entry-to-reserve ratios. It provides insights into current market trends, such as the impact of AI and changing valuations, while offering benchmarks for excellent performance in various aspects of seed-stage investing.
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