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Welcome to issue 457 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

Billion dollar startups are better faster cheaper— Lessons from Amazon, Instacart, Uber & Shopify
Facebook wasn't the first social network. So maybe being first doesn't matter. But, being better, faster, or cheaper? That matters a lot.

Successful Co-Founder Dynamics
Learnings From Co-Founders Around the World.

Audio’s Opportunity and Who Will Capture It
The content, business models, and health of every media category is driven by technology. And audio technology has never been so diverse and dynamic. After decades of struggles, audio is ready to grow, not just replace.

How We Turned Cat Travel Bag Idea Into a $100K/year Side Business
Looking for tips to delight your customers with your service? Bingo! This case study will give you ideas to take your customer experience (and sales) to another level.

The Unspoken Hard Bits of Bootstrapping
The challenges that I’ve faced as a bootstrapped founder simply aren’t the ones that are commonly talked about.

Why 50/50 partnerships are lazy and the expensive lessons learned from a toxic business partnership
The things I wished I knew when taking on a business partner, from qualities to look for, red flags and everything you need in your operating agreement.

Marketing, Sales and PR

The B2B SaaS Pricing Masterclass
We collected 600+ SaaS pricing pages and analyzed them to learn how software companies price, package, and position their products.

SaaS Marketing Pages Checklist
The ultimate checklist to build an awesome SaaS marketing website.

SEO Copywriting: The Definitive Guide
This is the most comprehensive guide to SEO copywriting online. In this new guide you’ll learn how to write content that users and search engines love. (Including lots of advanced strategies that I’ve never shared anywhere before.)

How Startups Make Money With Subscription Pricing
It’s about fixing leaky pipes, not replacing exploding toilets.

"Powered by" - An Acquisition Channel Nobody is Talking About

Benchmarking the Pricing Strategy of 100+ Subscription Based Mobile Apps

Money and Finance

How to Build a Great Series A Pitch and Deck
Janelle Tam, YC’s Series A Program Manager, put together a great post based on her experience working with founders to help them with their pitches and decks.

Convertible Debt Terms – Survey of Market Trends 2019/2020
The convertible debt market has remained remarkably stable over the last 15 months, despite considerable economic uncertainty related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fenwick’s latest Convertible Debt Terms – Survey of Market Trends analyzes more than 100 issuer-side convertible debt transactions covering the period from January 1, 2019, through March 30, 2020.

Why IPOs, Direct Listings, and SPACs Will Flourish in Startupland

Startups of the Week

CashDrop
Create an online storefront from your phone in minutes. Zero commissions, zero monthly fees.

Jam
Jam transforms your site into a collaborative doc. Comment, discuss, create tasks, and even use your existing tools like Jira and Asana right from your website.

Pitch
Pitch helps teams build better presentations: collaboratively, effectively, and beautifully.

Aquagenuity
The world’s first water quality rating technology. We help you find out what's in your water before people start getting sick.

Fabric
Fabric is the headless commerce platform purpose-built for growth.

Tips, Tools and Services

The 40 Best Questions to Ask in an Interview — How to Go Deeper Than “What’s the Culture Like?
Candidates need to sidestep common interview questions. Here are the best questions to ask in an interview.

SaaS Pages
A collection of the best landing pages with a focus on copywriting and design.

How to Optimize Your Landing Page Using Qualitative User Research
Use qualitative research to optimize your landing pages and understand why visitors to your site act in a certain way.

How to debug distributed teamwork, as suggested by new research
We surveyed thousands of workers across the globe to see how COVID-19 and the sudden shift to working from home has affected them. Here’s what we uncovered.

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