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Welcome to issue 443 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.
General

The Cadence: How to Operate a SaaS Startup
You think you need a COO. What you really need is an operating philosophy.

Roadmap: 10 Laws of Healthcare
After four decades of investing in the industry, Bessemer offers the guiding principles for healthcare founders, executives, providers, payers, employers and patients who are building tomorrow's innovations and systems of care.

Our Ghost-Kitchen Future
A business model that seemed marginal before the coronavirus pandemic now looks like the future of restaurants.

Positional Software: How today’s best business software goes viral
The software you use says something about you. Today’s breakout software uses that to build a tribe.

Why Your Startup Needs to Build the Product Your Customers Aren’t Expecting
Five steps to selling innovation and avoiding the status-quo death trap.

How Two Young Scientists Built A $250 Million Business Using Yeast To Clean Up Wastewater 
Houston-based Solugen is making cheaper, more effective industrial chemicals to help scrub everything from pools and hot tubs to oil and gas companies’ wastewater. 

How I grew my Shopify micro-SaaS to $25k MRR and 20k users in 14 months


Marketing, Sales and PR

How today's fastest growing B2B businesses found their first ten customers
Lessons from Figma, Stripe, Airtable, Shopify, Carta, Gusto and many many more.

How to Scale Sales at Your Startup
The journey from one sale to one hundred starts with you.

B2C Content Marketing: How We Grew a B2C Blog to 70,000 Pageviews in 14 Months

Deconstructing Pinterest’s reverse-image-search SEO growth hack


Money and Finance

Announcing the DocSend Fundraising Network
The DocSend Fundraising Network uses a data-driven approach to provide warm intros between quality founders and active VCs who match their needs.

Q2 2020 Global Venture Report: Funding Through The Pandemic
Despite the turmoil of an ongoing pandemic, global venture funding for the second quarter of 2020 was not as dire as we expected, but it was down from previous years.

Not all VC investors are being slowed down by the pandemic
As the venture capital industry pumped the brakes on dealmaking, a handful of investors are taking a different tack.


Startups of the Week

TuSimple 
TuSimple is a self-driving technology company making it possible for heavy-duty trucks to operate autonomously on highways and surface streets

CALA 
Build Your Fashion Brand. CALA makes it easy to design, produce, and deliver your own fully-custom apparel.

now.me 
Get to the meeting you’re supposed to be in, no more sifting through calendars and chasing links!.

Vercel 
Vercel is the optimal workflow for frontend teams. All-in-one: Static and Jamstack deployment, Serverless Functions, and Global CDN.

LuminDX 
LuminDx is elevating doctors around the world to evaluate skin conditions at the level expert dermatologists using computer vision and AI.


Tips, Tools and Services

9 best-in-class examples of product personalization
Users don't just want personalized experiences—they expect them. Here are 9 exceptional examples of personalized product experiences from B2C and B2B apps to inspire your product team and help you start designing more customized, bespoke UX for your own users.

Information And Information Architecture: The BIG Picture
Information architecture is the process of categorizing and organizing information to create structure and meaning. To give this context, this article explores not only the basics of information architecture, but also the broader view of the information age, how we use information and how it impacts our world and our lives. Understanding the bigger picture enables us to get a much clearer perception of the value that good information architecture delivers to help our information-overloaded lives.

9 Tricks to Experiment with your Pricing Strategy
 
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