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Welcome to issue 449 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.
General

Startup Mistakes: First-Hand Lessons from 80+ Failed Startups
We've analyzed why +80 startups have failed and identified some of their common mistakes. Here're our findings!

This VP is Doing Things Differently in the Product Org — Here’s His Playbook
One VP of Product outlines his tactics for an action-driven product team, from PMs who sell, to variable comp, to moving onboarding to the product org.

Myths About Failure
Why Understanding Failure Can Lead to Success.

Persisting as a solo founder

The dual PhD problem of today’s startups 


Marketing, Sales and PR

How Notion Built A $2B SaaS Startup Through Community & Templates
Breaking down the strategies Notion has used to build a $2 billion company, grow to 1 million users, pull in 20M+ site visits monthly and hit 40,000 referring domains in < 4 years.

From the Bottom Up—Airtable’s Approach to Distribution and Adoption
CEO and Co-founder Howie Liu explains why Airtable's been bottom-up from the start.

The Word of Mouth Coefficient
How to systematically measure and drive Word of Mouth acquisition.

Top 10 cold calling tips to close more deals in 2020
In this article we share top 10 cold calling tips from real sales expert that are proven to work in 2020 and will help you book more meetings.

Outreach Tips (that are better than anything you’ll find searching Google)


Money and Finance

Navigating Termsheets
This post covers some of the main sections of a term sheet, why it matters, and an example as a founder.

Options about your Options
How to think through your company’s option program.

How to not run out of runway - the seed stage growth model
The seed round is usually devoted to finding your product-market fit, meaning you start with no or little product and should end with a demonstrably retentive and growing population of users. It’s this growth stretch that this post shows you how to plan — and once you do that, you’ll have a clear timeline for your seed.

The State Of Global Venture Funding During COVID-19
Uncover how venture funding has fared globally since the start of the pandemic.


Startups of the Week

Akiflow 
Control your web apps with one command line. Increase speed, get things done and become 10x more productive.

Depict.ai
AI-driven product recommendations for any e-commerce store.

Hubble 
Hubble monitors your data warehouse for data quality issues and alerts you when things go wrong.


Tips, Tools and Services

In-Depth: How Biases Easily Distort Our Beliefs (In The Workplace) 
A long-read about 8 cognitive and social biases, their underlying research and how to (hopefully) reduce their impact.

Measure Core Web Vitals of your Websites with Google Sheets
Core Web Vitals are a set of metrics defined by Google to help webmasters understand the performance of their websites. You can automate the measurement and tracking of core vitals with Google Sheets.

Stop Overengineering People Management
The trend toward optimization is disempowering employees.
 
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