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Welcome to issue 439 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.
General

Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap
This is part 1 of a series where I’ll look at the future costs of clean energy and mobility technologies.

The World’s Livestream Queen Can Sell Anything
A millionaire at 34 and bigger than “Sunday Night Football,” China’s star saleswoman Viya rules a $60 billion world of live online shopping.

Marketplace Liquidity: How Side Switching Can Help
The traits that make marketplaces scalable and defensible also affect the ease of reaching critical mass — Side switching is a key feature that disadvantaged marketplaces can use to mitigate liquidity challenges.

50 Ideas That Changed My Life 
In this post, David Perell shares 50 ideas that changed his life. These are his guiding principles and the light of his intellectual life. All of them will help you think better, and hope they inspire curiosity.

R.I.P. Civil — Lessons from a failed startup

Demonstrating 15 contact tracing and other tools built to mitigate the impact of COVID-19

Zero to Zero — mastering ideation

The Guide to Unbundling Reddit


Marketing, Sales and PR

B2B SaaS Marketing Playbook
Growth Marketing Strategies for B2B SaaS Founders.

How Drift, Hootsuite & Zoom framed their products for exponential growth
Learn how to frame your product the right way and crush the market you're in. See how Zoom, Drift, Hootsuite and Gainsight achieved success through product positioning.

How to Scale Globally as a Niche Startup
When you think about profitable business opportunities, mobile apps for parenting are probably not the first thing that comes to mind. But the Wachanga team manages to prosper, attract investments, and keep global leaders on their toes. Learn how in this post.

Gamification in Email Marketing: Our Personal Experience 
We tested the effectiveness of Gamification in email marketing and sharing the results and mechanics of building AMP questionnaires for your campaigns.

How Stitch Fix got their first 1000 customers?


Money and Finance

How we raised $3M for an open source project
Open source projects have long battled with how to finance themselves. PostHog is lucky to have significant funding and wanted to share what we did to help other cool projects take off.

Are VCs Still Investing?
The state of fundraising in the spring of 2020, in 12 simple charts.


Startups of the Week

Zipline 
Vital, On-Demand Delivery for the World. Enabled by the fastest and most experienced drone delivery service.

Advekit
Your therapist search, made simple. Advekit is a free, online matching service for you to find the best suited therapist to your needs.

Searchable.ai 
Searchable.ai is a conversational search engine for your stuff. With information spread across emails, chats, cloud content and traditional files, Searchable.ai makes it easy to find exactly what you need, no matter where it’s stored.

Element5
Element5 provides automation solutions to Homecare and Hospice providers leveraging AI and RPA technologies.

Lili 
Digital banking for freelancers. Stay in control. Save on taxes. No account fees and no minimum balance.

TaxProper 
TaxProper saves homeowners thousands on their property taxes. File your risk-free property tax appeal in under five minutes today.


Tips, Tools and Services

How To Write Great Microcopy
Here are 40 pro tips for writing microcopy.

7 Product Team Pitfalls You Should Avoid 
After talking with thousands of product teams, we've discovered seven wide-spread pitfalls that slow teams down and impact product quality. Check it out!
 
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