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FoundersGrid #522
September 25, 2020
Smash Digital SEO
A growth agency, filled to the brim with unicorn images and SEO memes. A team of SEOs who actually know how to use SEO instead of just sell SEO to people who don’t know SEO. An agency with so much link juice you’ll need a mop and bucket to clean it all up. 
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The 10x advantage of starting a company right now.
Backed by data, most of today’s most successful companies were established during a downturn.  But how did they do that?  This article shares the deeper reasons why these companies were able to get a strong start in a bad economy.
 
Startups need to be more than “recession proof; they need to be “crisis proof.” 
When sudden and unpredictable behavior changes happen that could last indefinitely, companies are required to be “crisis proof.”  Ophelia Brown, founding partner of VC firm Blossom Capital shares what companies need to be able to weather any storm; socio, economic and beyond.
 
Will Opendoor, the Amazon of housing, transform the real estate industry?
An analysis of why Opendoor, the Amazon of housing, is likely to be successful where other real estate startups have failed.
 
47 principles, methods, and tools for generating genius business ideas.
Niall Doherty, founder and lead editor at eBiz Facts, shares the ultimate list of ways to come up with a business idea with concepts and frameworks from the likes of Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Elon Musk, to name a few.

100 People transforming business in North America.
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How to create a personal vision statement
There are legitimate obstacles that hold people back, oftentimes the biggest one is our own conception of what is possible.  In this article, Taylor Pearson, shares how we can connect the work we are doing today to something more meaningful and inspiring, root the things we really want to do out of our heads, and avoid a failure of imagination.
 
Learning how to ask questions is an essential skill for startup founders
For many people, asking questions was all about the who, what, where, when, why, and how.  But for most founders, “Inquiry” or the carefully crafted approaches to asking questions, is one of the most important learning resources that allowed them to grow as great leaders.
 
9 tricks to experiment with your pricing strategy
This post shows 9 simple pricing and packaging hacks that work well - especially for early stage founders.
 

COMMUNITY NEWS

  • From millions in revenue to staring bankruptcy in the face with Aline Lerner of interviewing.io.  Link
  • Indonesian cloud kitchen startup Yummy gets $12 million Series B led by Softbank Ventures Asia.  Link
  • As tech stocks dip, is insurtech startup Root targeting an IPO?  Link
  • Twitter to start testing voice DMs.  Link
  • Outreach founders lift the hood on their stealthy new remote work startup.  Link
  • Seattle startup Bamboo launches English Language learning voice app for Alexa.  Link
  • How to scale to $20 million in revenue this year with Kevin Zhang.  Link
  • Noah Kagan’s video on the 10 most common mistakes the first-time entrepreneurs make.  Link
  • 3 founders pursued alternative startup ownership structures.  Link
  • Mark Cuban, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ashton Kutcher, and others invest in Cloud Paper, a tree-free toilet paper startup.  Link
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