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Welcome to issue 542 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

Web3 Use Cases: The Future
Will web3 justify the hype?

Operating Well: What I Learned at Stripe
It's a state, not an outcome.

Episode #54 Cal Henderson // CTO at Slack
Cal Henderson, CTO of Slack, creator of Flickr, and author of ‘Building Scalable Websites’ (O'Reilly Media, 2006) shares how Slack was built from both a tech and product perspective and what you should be doing to reclaim your focus time. You don’t want to miss out on hearing about the Slack tech stack from someone who is a pioneer in the use of web APIs and created the basis for OAuth and oEmbed.

Marketing, Sales and PR

Your Guide to Reverse Trials
Is your PLG strategy freemium or free trial? Airtable’s Head of Growth, Lauryn Isford, explains how you can have both with reverse trials.

The Growth Competency Model
The Growth Competency Model helps Growth leaders evaluate, provide direct feedback, and guide career development for each of their team members.

Money and Finance

Uplevel Your Founder-VC Relationship
Having a great relationship with your investors is always critical to your mission and success, but perhaps even more so right now, during a macroeconomic crisis. There’s an untold amount of upside in learning how to navigate and uplevel these relationships, in the good times and in bad. Here’s how.

Venture Capital to Innovation Capital
On the shift of venture capital investing strategies and how NFT funds could be an early signal for the next and potentially final shift in strategic positioning for venture investors.

10 Common Misconceptions About Getting Funded

Startups of the Week

vidBoard.ai
An AI platform that creates videos out of plain written text.

Beau
Build, visualize, and automate your customer-facing processes. All with one, easy-to-use solution.

Tips, Tools and Services

Service Level Agreement
A simple agreement that defines a SaaS customer’s expected level of service from the product. Designed to be used with the Common Paper CSA.

More New Hires Are Ghosting Before Their Start Date. Here’s How To Prevent That.
Some Recommendations For Startup CEOs to Help Make Sure Your Team Member Actually Shows Up.

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