View this email in your browser

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 535 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

From Our Sponsor

Custom dashboards, admin panels, CRUD apps—build any internal tool faster in Retool.
Visually build apps that interface with any database or API. Switch to JavaScript nearly anywhere to customize how your apps look and work. With Retool, you ship more custom apps and move your business forward—all in less time.

General

How big companies kill ideas — and how to fight back, with Tony Fadell
Stories and lessons from his new book, Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making.

Growth vs Profitability
If you are someone who wants to build cool products and solving problems you truly care about, while retaining control over your destiny. Then this post might just be for you.

Bootstrapping a SaaS Product to $36k MRR
This is a recap of the last 3 years of growing a SaaS product. From zero revenue, to ramen profitability, to now employing a small team - all without any outside investment. Onwards to $1 million ARR!

Finding Product Market Fit and Scaling a Vertical SaaS Company
A talk about managing remote teams, finding product-market-fit, and selling software to technology laggards.

Why purpose matters in entrepreneurship (and how to find yours)
Are you putting purpose front and center as you build your business? Here's why you need to and how to do it.

Marketing, Sales and PR

Hyper-growth is great, but don’t die while trying
How to avoid bad surprises when you’re planning for fast growth.

Your Guide To Customer Support & PLG
Ron Rafalovitch Group Lead of Customer Experience at product-led growth giant monday.com dives into the value of the customer support team.

HubSpot’s CEO Yamini Rangan on ditching the funnel for the Flywheel
For years, businesses have structured their marketing and sales strategies around the funnel. But as we devise better ways to engage with our customers, maybe it’s time we evolve our metaphors, too.

Money and Finance

Cram Down – A Test of Character for VCs and Founders
For common shareholders (employees, advisers and previous investors), a cram-down round is a big middle finger, as it comes with reverse split.

Bad News: Global VC Funding In April Dipped Again. Good News: It Wasn’t A Nosedive
Global venture funding totaled $47 billion in April 2022—the lowest amount invested in private companies in the past 12 months—based on an analysis of Crunchbase data. While the dip isn’t massive, it does signal that the slowdown we saw in the first quarter of this year is the start of a longer-term shift in funding, particularly at late stage.

Startups of the Week

Nook Calendar
Nook Calendar is the free calendar app for individuals and teams who want control and flexibility over their schedules.

Paper
Frictionless NFT checkout. Make NFTs accessible to your full audience with a fast & simple checkout solution that meets your customers where they are.

Tips, Tools and Services

How to validate your startup idea
Lessons learned from Flexport, Vanta, Rec Room, LaunchDarkly, Pinwheel, Snackpass, Good Dog, and Cocoon.

Managing Gen Z Knowledge Workers: An Early Playbook
Gen Z now makes up a large part of the workforce. Use this Gen Z playbook to motivate, develop, and retain the next generation of talent!

103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known

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.

Copyright © 2022 Founder Weekly, All rights reserved.
You are receiving our weekly newsletter because you signed up at http://www.FounderWeekly.com.

Our mailing address is:

Founder Weekly

Brooklyn

Brooklyn, NY 11209

Add us to your address book

Want to change how you receive these emails?
You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

Founder Weekly - Founder Weekly - Issue 535

Founder Weekly

Older messages

Founder Weekly - Issue 534

Founder Weekly - Issue 533

Founder Weekly - Issue 532

Founder Weekly - Issue 531

Founder Weekly - Issue 530

You Might Also Like

Europe’s 100 most active investors

#222 | Reimagining Learning, Consumer AI Opportunities, & more

This dead simple web app generates $100K/year

Building Lovable: $10M ARR in 60 days with 15 people | Anton Osika (CEO and co-founder)

👻 The AI sourcing secret that's haunting your competitors.

🗞 What's New: Why AI can't replace my $1k/mo human assistant

What’s 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #436

🎯 Fix your fulfillment, fix your profits

Create a social media strategy in 7 (straightforward) steps

10words: Top picks from this week