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Welcome to issue 466 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

Fresh Off IPO, Upstart’s CEO Shares Why the Startup Isn’t a Typical Success Story
Dave Girouard shares the founding story of Upstart, from the startup pivot and fundraising challenges to IPO.

Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy
The American Dream exists, but what is the reality?

The Observer Effect – Tobi Lütke
Tobi Lütke,, Founder and CEO of Shopify, on how he spends his time, learns and makes decisions.

Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help
While investment funds in Silicon Valley have turned the owners of many unprofitable startups into billionaires overnight, the founders of JetBrains have managed the feat without the help of venture capital.

Fjord Trends 2021
Accenture's Fjord Trends 2021 provides insights into emerging trends in business, technology and design focused on meeting human needs.

The Stickiest, Most Addictive, Most Engaging, and Fastest-Growing Social Apps—and How to Measure Them
When assessing a social app’s potential, what does “good” look like, anyway? The most important metrics—and benchmarks to aspire to—according to the data.

Lessons from building and growing an open source SaaS
Here are some lessons learned from building and growing an open source SaaS startup in the highly competitive web analytics market.

Consumer Trends for 2021
An inaugural report that highlights what changed this year and what matters most for the years ahead.

Marketing, Sales and PR

Why Content is King
How the media creates power.

12 Custom Facebook Ad Metrics Every Campaign Needs
Once you get your Facebook Ads campaigns up and running, finding the right way of tracking them is key to measuring success and ROI.

Money and Finance

A Fair Pricing Model for Pre-Seed Rounds
The idea is essentially to raise the capital in tranches using multiple valuation caps, to minimize founder dilution and to reward the earliest investors who aren’t just willing to commit, but are willing to wire the capital too.

Ten lessons from a decade of vertical software investing
Insights on how vertical software founders can choose their markets wisely, maintain enduring growth, and build industry-defining companies.

Opportunities in Consumer Social
Building & investing in vertical networks for the new era.

Startups of the Week

EduDo
EduDo is the destination for mobile learning - exciting, engaging, and easy watching on the go!

PostHog
PostHog provides open-source product analytics, built for developers. Automate the collection of every event on your website or app, with no need to send data to 3rd parties. With just 1 click you can deploy on your own infrastructure, having full API/SQL access to the underlying data.

StepZen
The StepZen platform enables you to quickly build an API that combines and connects data across multiple backends. Ask for the data you want via a single query to that API, and StepZen assembles the response from backend APIs.

Tips, Tools and Services

Startup Valuation Nest
Check startup valuations in your industry.

The Nuances of Hiring and Managing Remote Employees for Software Development
This article offers tips on finding the right remote software developers for your startup and managing remote teams for the best results.

How to scale a compensation program

Team Building for early-stage startups

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