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Welcome to issue 465 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Turn Tax Credits Into Cash Flow. MainStreet automatically identifies, claims, and advances tax credits on behalf of startups. It takes 15 minutes to qualify, and they do all the paperwork for you.

General

Entrepreneurship and Loneliness
It’s lonely at the top. It’s even lonelier to be an entrepreneur. But you don’t have to go through this struggle alone. Reid Hoffman on why it’s so lonely to be an entrepreneur, how he dealt with this challenge through both success (LinkedIn) and failure (SocialNet), and how entrepreneurs can find allies and aid in their struggle against loneliness.

Where To Build Your Startup
James Currier, NFX Partner, lays out the underlying patterns to help Founders make the best choice on where to start a company.

How to build the next great startup with remote work
Hear lessons about building a remote team, practical guidelines on how to compensate and hire these teams, and also what the future of San Francisco might be as a state of mind.

4 Signs You’re Building A World-Class Team
Pete Flint, Founding CEO at Trulia and NFX Partner, is making public his playbooks for building world-class teams.

Buy Don't Build: Avoiding Ops For Fun and Profit
Prioritize buying to building, unless building will provide a real sustainable advantage for the business. Reducing the long term operational burden is one of the easiest ways to maintain developer velocity and happiness over time, and reduce costs for an organization as well.

The Rise Of Everywhere
Let’s stop worrying about Silicon Valley, it will be fine, and start celebrating the rise of tech entrepreneurship everywhere. That is a profound thing for the world and something to be incredibly happy about.

Scaling the startup mountain
Six lessons from building and selling our startup

Marketing, Sales and PR

Individuals or Teams: Who’s the Better Customer for SaaS Products?
Team plans are where the money is. Individual plans are good for lead gen.

Adobe’s $200 Billion Unshakeable Moat
This is the complete breakdown of Adobe's marketing strategy that made one of the most remarkable business pivots of the last decade.

What is Direct Traffic in Google Analytics and How to Analyze It?
How to analyze direct traffic in Google Analytics if the arrival session data is missing? Almost 20 marketing pros give their best tips on analyzing direct traffic in GA

How We Create EBooks That Generate 1000+ Leads Every Month
Our ebooks generate 1000+ leads every single month. Discover how you can create your own with our 5 step process now.

Money and Finance

Voices Around The Table
10 VC Archetypes and Who to Put on Your Board.

I Just Raised a $3M Seed Round from Top Silicon Valley VCs. This Was My Step-by-Step Process.
Fundraising in 2020 has been tough for many founders. Read Brent Franson's story and process of how he successfully raised a seed round for Most Days, during the pandemic.

Startups of the Week

Dorm
Learn from the world’s best entrepreneurs, youtubers & creators through a new podcasting experience.

StarStock
A new marketplace for sports card buyers and sellers. Bulk ship your cards to our vault. Buy and sell instantly with exceptionally low fees.

Wikifactory
Wikifactory is where ideas get made. Design, collaborate, prototype and produce real products all-in-one place, with just a laptop and an internet connection.

Tips, Tools and Services

A Tactical Guide to Managing Up
What is managing up and how do you build a good relationship with your boss? Here are the best tips for managing up at work.

How to Conduct a Competitive Analysis (Template Included)
Competitive analysis is the process of identifying and researching your competitors to get the information you need to gain a competitive advantage.

10 Scarcity Examples to Inspire Your Next Landing Page
It's no secret that customers believe limited-availability items are more valuable. Get inspired by these 10 examples of scarcity in action.

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