Founder Weekly (Issue 671 January 29 2025)

In partnership with

Welcome to issue 671 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

10x Your Outbound With Our AI BDR

Imagine your calendar filling with qualified sales meetings, on autopilot. That's Ava's job. She's an AI BDR who automates your entire outbound demand generation.

Ava operates within the Artisan platform, which consolidates every tool you need for outbound:

  • 300M+ High-Quality B2B Prospects

  • Automated Lead Enrichment With 10+ Data Sources Included

  • Full Email Deliverability Management

  • Personalization Waterfall using LinkedIn, Twitter, Web Scraping & More

General

The article on product-market fit collapse explores how established products can suddenly lose their market position due to rapid shifts in technology or consumer preferences, particularly with the rise of AI-driven solutions. It emphasizes the need for companies to proactively identify market expansions and adapt to prevent being disrupted.

How do you create a go-to-market machine that’s able to turbocharge (and then sustain) revenue growth? Clay co-founder Varun Anand shares the biggest lessons from the company's success, with growth advice for both product-led and sales-led startups.

10 Categories of Reinvention, from Money to Dating to Shopping.

Venture Guides believes that “great companies are built, not born.” Knowledge, commitment, and experience will vastly improve the opportunity for your success. Our guides help technical founders through all important phases and challenges of go-to-market startup acceleration.

Marketing, Sales and PR

Where are the large opportunities for Enterprise Agents?

Warmly’s journey from $1 to $3M ARR – and a repeatable GTM motion.

Money and Finance 

How VC consolidation will hurt returns & innovation.

More startups shut down in 2024 than the year prior and a high volume of startup failures will continue, data from multiple sources.

Our Other Newsletters

Python Weekly - A free weekly newsletter featuring the best hand curated news, articles, tools and libraries, new releases, jobs etc related to Python.

Programmer Weekly - A free weekly newsletter for programmers.