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General

The New Generation of Labor Marketplaces and the Future of Work
The shelter-in-place orders from the pandemic have created a massive, but temporary, demand shock to the labor market. They have also accelerated many long term trends that will create permanent changes in the work that we do and how we do it. When the economy eventually normalizes, demand for labor will recover, and work will recover, but the shifts in supply and demand will result in a new and sizable set of unmet market needs for job placement. When this happens, online marketplaces will be a critical tool in getting people back to work quickly, efficiently, and at scale. They will also enable new ways for people to build the skills they need to succeed, and for them to work in an increasingly remote and distributed fashion.

Foodtech Trends That Are Here to Stay
The foodtech space is well-positioned for significant technology-driven growth, with companies in the sector raising $5.3 billion in VC funding in Q1 2020, according to Pitchbook. Here are three trends that I believe will stick once we emerge from our kitchens.

Why Remote Work Is So Hard—and How It Can Be Fixed
The challenges aren’t just technological. They’re managerial.

Building a Business From a Bedroom, $98,130 and 11-Months In
Lessons learned sleeping 4ft from my office.

Integrating Chaos: Building Resilient Organizations with Chaos Theory
Chaos Theory says that organizations are "complex adaptive systems" and that through this lens, we can build emergent, adaptive and resilient organizations.

2020 CX Report
The CX Report gathers trends on how business happens in the computational era by examining the tech stacks for marketing and products in the context of digital transformation.

Idea Generation

I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

Lessons From My First 6 Months As A Founder

Marketing, Sales and PR

Predictive Churn Indicator
Not all revenue is equal. Figuring out how strong yours is remains key for the future of your business, especially in a post-covid world and the likely crisis.

How to Incentivize your First Sales Leads (Templates Included)
Convincing your first sales leads to buy your product is tough for most startups. You’re asking potential customers to risk a lot of time and effort, long before you have a polished product. Instead of starting sales conversations as transactional, I advise founders to ask their first leads to be ‘customer advisors’. Here’s how to use a ‘Customer Advisory Board’ to incentivize a lead and ease them into a sale, along with some templates you’ll need.

How To Successfully Market (And Sell) Any Product Online
Once your product is ready, promoting it is the best next step. Learn the 7 best ways to market your product or small business with industry best practices with this guide.

21 Ways to Market for Growth in This Recession
Here are 21 ways that companies can use marketing to not just maintain but grow market share over the next 12–18 months. And when I say marketing, I don’t just mean advertising and promotion, but the full range of marketing considerations including the customer, product and price.

How to Assemble an Effective SaaS Pricing Team
Assembling the right SaaS pricing team is essential if you want to make pricing your most powerful growth lever. Learn who should be in that pricing team, and why.

Money and Finance

Ban Warm Introductions!
It’s time to end one of Venture Capital’s most exclusionary, value destroying practices.

COVID-19 Edition: What is venture sentiment today?
To understand the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on the venture capital sector, we recently conducted a survey of venture firms to gauge investor sentiment on investment activity and fundraising. Within a few days, 427 venture firms responded, demonstrating the strong desire to share information across the venture community.

Global Venture Funding Through The Pandemic, Late-Stage Stays Strong
To understand the impact of the pandemic on global venture funding, we took a look at comparative trends for the first four months of each year from 2016 through to 2020.

How VC works - A Beginner's Guide

Mapping “The Future of Work” Startup & Investor ecosystem

Private Fund Strategies Report

Moats Before (Gross) Margins

Startups of the Week

Mati
KYC & AML Identity verification for fast-growing companies. Start verifying in 5 minutes the ID of your users everywhere in the world, with the highest level of biometrics and document analysis.

Cabana
Cabana is a mobile hotel company with a fleet of converted camper vans that serve as mobile lodging for travelers looking for an innovative and flexible travel option.

Toro
Do you know when your data is broken? Detect data quality problems and anomalies automatically. Then fix them before they hit production.

Magic
Drop passwords. Use magic links. Enable customizable, future-proof, passwordless login with a few lines of code.

Overjet
AI powered dental software. Automatic analysis of clinical data to improve profitability and patient care.

Tips, Tools and Services

How I Decided Who Should Buy My Startup
You have a choice if you make the right decisions.

Stripe's remote engineering hub, one year in

Time Machines & Leadership: 10 things I wish I knew at the start

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