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Welcome to issue 459 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

YC's Startup School for Future Founders
This course will run for 6 weeks and is designed for students, engineers, creatives and anyone who is thinking about founding a startup at some point, but not actively working on one right now.

Software is Eating the Markets
Welcome to the Consumerization of Investing.

6 Counterintuitive Rules for Being a Better Manager — Advice from Lambda School, Quip & Facebook
Molly Graham shares her collection of rules for managers (which include references to robots and wilderness medicine), assembled from her experiences scaling Lambda School, Quip and Facebook.

Shopify - How we Get Sh*t Done
A talk that explains "why" and "what" we built to track and collaborate on work at Shopify.

Democratizing Access
Offer something for free, at a lower price, or make it much more convenient to use.

2020 Open Source Hardware Weather Report
The 2020 report allows the open source hardware world to collectively identify what is working, share insights, and rally around shared challenges. It distills lessons learned and describes the collective understanding of the state of open source hardware.

Product-market fit for a B2B company

The $1M Journey of a stay-at-home Dad (or Dev)

A Startup Hiring Framework

Marketing, Sales and PR

Making Freemium Models Work
Your in-depth guide to making freemium work. Featuring expert insights, videos, and tips from Hubspot, ProfitWell, Mixpanel, and Typeform.

9 Tried and Tested Ways a Sales Analysis Can Help You Generate More Revenue
Want to boost your sales and close more deals? 20 sales experts share their best tips on using sales analysis data to generate more revenue.

We Analyzed 180K Business Proposals (You’ll Never Guess What We Found!)
Want to create successful business proposals? Learn from the findings collected from over 180,000 business proposals to make yours win.

Case Study: What I Learned From Sending 110 Cold Emails
The author sent over 100 cold emails — using both manual and automated outreach methods — to land himself some guest posting opportunities. Here’s what he learned from the experiment.

Hockey Stick growth and Github Stars

Why You Should Hire Agencies & Consultants (for everything you can)

Money and Finance

The Market Curve
The market you choose to serve is one of the most important factors for an early-stage startup. And for most technologists, it’s a blind spot. To help, we wanted to share one way of thinking about the market.

The (potential) tyranny of fundraising
The importance of telling your authentic story and not trying to play to your audience. It's just too important to be aligned with your partners: spend the time finding the true believers.

Investing in Femtech: The Case for Women’s Healthcare (Part I)
This post outlines the current state of the femtech market and share insights around key trends driving the industry.

Startups of the Week

SKAEL
SKAEL helps companies fully automate repetitive B2B functions, through easy integrations to hundreds of enterprise systems, while harnessing insights.

Snowball Wealth
Snowball Wealth gives you the tools to tackle student debt, so you can start saving and investing. Our student debt recommendation evaluates all of your options so you can pay down your student debt effectively.

PORTL Hologram
Hologram software, production & hardware company featuring The World’s 1st Life-Sized Single-Passenger HoloPortation Machine!

Tips, Tools and Services

How to spin your scientific research out of a university and into a startup
This is advice for people who have done scientific research at a university and are considering starting a company to commercialize it.

How to avoid burnout by working less and doing more
Feeling burned out? Here's how to leverage priorities, positive constraints, and psychology to avoid a long-term funk.

The Psychology of User Decisions
Learn user-first design with practical skills and tools so you can build better digital experiences.

29 Quotes That Perfectly Explain What Copywriting Means
Copy is the words businesses and people use to sell something. And copywriting is salesmanship in print. Get the skinny on what copywriting means here.

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