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Welcome to issue 444 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

How I Lost $100 Million in 60 Days
My true story of moving to Silicon Valley for a role on an eccentric billionaire’s reality TV show where I lost big, but also won a new life.

The road to 4 million meals: some takeaways from my time at Gousto
As an investor with a soft spot for innovative B2C companies, I recently spent a few months at the data science-powered, meal kit manufacturer Gousto. I’ve summarized my takeaways below for early-stage founders (or others) who’d like to better understand some of the core ingredients in their growth recipe.

Lessons and Regrets from My $25000 Launch
Reflections on the Coding Career book launch.

The leveraging of America: how companies became addicted to debt
With the corporate sector already owing $10tn, many businesses are doubling down on new loans to survive the pandemic.

Part 1: Why You Need a Product Sieve
Stop wasting years and waste hours instead.

The saddest "Just Ship It" story ever
This is a story of how it took me way too long to ship a product, and I ended up paying for a competitor product instead.

The rise of superpower tech

Earning $800 / Month With Spotify

Marketing, Sales and PR

What we learned from all of Grammarly’s marketing emails
Check out our email marketing crush, Grammarly, everyone’s favorite grammar checker and writing improvement tool. Read this detailed email teardown.

How To Drive Revenue By Increasing Customer Retention
In this video, founder / entrepreneur / investor Elizabeth Yin explains the concepts: What is retention and why is it important, What is cohort analysis, How to do cohort analysis and Tools for tracking retention.

Calculating Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) in 3 Ways — Guts, Churn Rates, Survival Rates
The survival Algorithm (Kaplan-Meyer) can give you a better estimate for CLV.

Maintaining A Consistent Customer Base: How to Reduce Crisis-Driven Product Churn
While many companies are going through difficult times, we've compiled the feature on how to handle product churn during the crisis, drive loyalty, and retain as many customers as possible.

The Math Behind SaaS Marketing Teams

Money and Finance

The Rise of the Solo Capitalists
A new set of players has emerged in the fundraising landscape, distinct from angels, super angels, and venture capital firms.

How to build and invest in marketplace startups
In this episode, Fabrice Grinda shares about creating a better marketplace platform, making better investments in marketplace platforms, mastering your investment thesis as a VC, selling your company to (other) investors and taking 1 action will make your life better.

The 3 Metrics That Matter to Raise Your Series-A
This post outlines empiric trends for venture funding and capital markets to establish the connection between funding and revenue.

Updating Your Seed Investors – Board Deck & Update Email Templates

We asked over 150 VCs if they are doing remote deals. Here’s what they said.

Startups of the Week

Icon Savings Plan
The easy way for employers to offer a retirement plan. Icon- the portable retirement plan.

Expert Republic
Expert Republic enables customers to instantly have a video call with an expert, whether it is a Fitness coach, Yoga trainer, Psychologist, and many others.

Braid
Braid is the easiest way to share and spend money with others

Tips, Tools and Services

How to Create the Ultimate Lead Capture Page: 11 Tips for 2020
Learn how to optimize your lead capture landing page to bring in more prospects. Check out these 11 tips to improve both your copy and design.

Collaborating in an Empty Room
Best Practices for Leading All-Remote Research Sessions, Synthesis Workshops, and Design Sprints.

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