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Welcome to issue 567 of Founder Weekly. This is the final issue of 2022. We will be back on January 4th, 2023 after the holiday break. Wish you all a Happy New Year and have a wonderful holiday.

General

Big Ideas in Tech for 2023: An a16z Omnibus
From entertainment franchise games to the precision delivery of medicines, small modular reactors to loads of AI applications, here are over 40 builder-worthy pursuits for the year ahead, according to the a16z team.

Mapping the Generative AI landscape
This report is a deep dive into the world of Gen-AI—and the first comprehensive market map available to everybody. We provide an overview of over 160 platforms in the space and their investors, as well as insights from leading thought leaders on the potential of this technology. This hands readers a unique opportunity to gain a comprehensive understanding of the generative AI market and the potential for new players to challenge established players like Google.

Finding traction without a product: Our process
How we iterated fast and proved initial traction for Nango without building the actual product.

How to buy a social network, with Tumblr CEO Matt Mullenweg
Elon Musk faces both engineering problems and people problems at Twitter. Matt Mullenweg explains how he’s tackling them at Tumblr, plus why he chose to make WordPress and WooCommerce open source.

Post-mortem of our 1st YC startup: a Reverse ETL
We thought we had made something people wanted. Our first startup was actually a vitamin.

Marketing, Sales and PR

Mario Gabriele: The Road to $300k+ with 60k Subscribers
The Generalist is a tech and news publication founded by Mario Gabriele that started out as a side project, but quickly turned into a full-fledged business making more than $300k per year. And to be up-front, that $300k number is a gross under-estimation, as it was the last time I could find Mario publicly talking about revenues in August 2021. I’d venture to guess that number is more accurately $450-500k at this point, as he’s raised his prices quite a bit recently. But I went with that number because it was the last concrete data point we have.

Guide to Growth Metrics
Benchmarks of B2B companies, based on a16z data and investing team expertise.

Seven Stages of Enterprise SaaS Qualification
Being scientific about your sales process allows you to help your sales team close more deals and better forecast your business. Here are the sales funnel stages to stay scientific.

Startups of the Week

Sym
Sym is the intelligent approvals-as-code platform for developers.

Hints
Get organized with Hints AI assistant. Save 60 min every day.

Imagen
The fastest, most accurate AI editing desktop app for Lightroom workflows.

Tips, Tools and Services

Equity Agreement for Service (Beta)
The Equity Agreement for Service ("EASE") is a free legal template for entrepreneurs to offer equity to service providers instead of cash. It is being released as a "Beta" version to gather comments and input from the startup community.

From BigCo to Startup: 20 Tips for Evaluating Early-Stage Companies & Making the Leap
Considering moving from BigCo to startup? We crowdsourced a tactical guide for first-time startup job-seekers on how to evaluate career opportunities at early-stage companies.

How to be an Exceptional Chief of Staff: Advice for Scaling Impact at Startups
10 tactical tips and guiding principles for a new Chief of Staff to lean on as they scale their impact at a startup — from building better systems, not just booking more meetings and finding an executive's superpower.

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