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Welcome to issue 574 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

Path to startup profitability
Most Silicon Valley companies never get to profitability. Here's how we did it at Slab and what we learned along the way.

Who Becomes an Entrepreneur?
Seven research studies reveal the traits and experiences that influence the decision to start a business.

Vertical APIs
Banking, healthcare, telcos, how API-first businesses are now eating old industries by connecting and abstracting legacy software and outdated protocols.

The Startup Founder’s Guide to Hiring a Data Scientist
Are you ready to hire a data scientist? Mengying Li, Growth Data Science Lead at Notion, shares her framework for testing whether you should invest in this key hire and how to find the right data science skillset for your startup.

Marketing, Sales and PR

How Canva Grows
What we can learn about go-to-market motions, product-led growth, icebergs, and content strategy from a $26b consumer design platform.

Selling to the Enterprise: Challenging SaaS Incumbents
At this stage of technology advancement, most of the good SaaS ideas are already taken. There are still green fields, but the fundraising rampage of the last few years has birthed viable startups in almost every category. Unless you’re lucky enough to be the first and strongest entrant in your sector, you will need to fight a bigger competitor. Let’s talk about a few of the ways to challenge a larger incumbent. Let’s talk about how to do it.

Bootstrapping To 8.5+ Million End Users
Uscreen, a proud bootstrapped company, shares lessons about growing a product-led business with $20 million in ARR and 8.5 million users.

Money and Finance

Dreaming Of Dry Powder
The Collective Hallucination of Oncoming Capital.

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