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Welcome to issue 470 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

Post-Pandemic Silicon Valley Isn’t A Place
Where are tech companies going to go once the pandemic subsides as vaccines reach more and more Americans?

How to Start a Biotech Company on a Budget
Contrary to popular belief, it’s possible to start a bio company on a budget. This post covers three biotech companies that are doing extremely well. Each example explains how they managed to get started and hit initial milestones with minimal funding or without any funding at all.

How to Build a Culture of Ownership, and Other Engineering Leadership Tips from Plaid & Dropbox
5 essential engineering management lessons from Plaid and Dropbox leader Jean-Denis Grèze.

A story about pivots
After 5 pivots in 6 months, PostHog got into YCombinator last year, pivoted again whilst they were there and have now gone from the first commit to thousands of deployments, a team across 10 countries and $12M raised, in well under a year. This post shares that story and what they learned from it.

Marketing, Sales and PR

The Hidden World of Pricing: Uber, Trulia, Etsy, Superhuman & More
A look inside the pricing playbooks used by dozens of unicorn companies with Pete Flint and Madhavan Ramanujam.

How Noom grew to a 9-figure revenue by going against common marketing advice
A super detailed breakdown of how Noom generates 9-figure revenues, all while ignoring common marketing advice.

The Last SaaS Churn Guide You’ll Ever Need to Read
In this blog post, we have collected everything you need to know about churn — along with links to the best resources on the internet. You’ll never need to visit another site to learn about churn.

The New B2B Growth Playbook

Money and Finance

Redrawing the Map
How the “Decoupling” of Capital and Geography Will Lead to More Unicorns — in More Places — in 2021

A K-shaped VC Market
Is The Era Of 10-20x Revenue Multiples Here To Stay?

The Fastest Growing Sectors of Startup Fundraising in 2020

Startups of the Week

Beeper
A single app to chat on iMessage, WhatsApp, and 13 other networks. You can search, snooze, or archive messages. And with a unified inbox, you’ll never miss a message again.

Shuffle
Tiktok for Podcasts. Discover the best ideas & stories in podcasts. Explore a personalized feed of clips, and create your own to share.

Vertical Field
Vertical Field is a leading ag-tech company that develops vertical growing systems for smart cities. Their soil-based vertical solutions can be used indoors and outdoors for both agricultural and smart city purposes, improving air quality, reducing carbon dioxide emissions, and growing (or supplying) healthy, fresh, and sustainable food all year round.

Tips, Tools and Services

Building a Great Startup Board Pt. 2
Selecting your investor board members should be a careful and thoughtful process, even if that means it requires more work. As an entrepreneur, the basic question you must ask yourself is whether the prospective board member can help you achieve the upside – and also manage the downside.

Triple R: a new technique to accelerate your progress
You can progress much faster if you increase the rate at which you explore avenues and abandon the dead ends. This article describes a simple but incredibly powerful process to do precisely that.

Why Most Conversion Rates Are Wrong and How You Can Do Better
Conversion rates are harder and less straightforward than most people think. They are also extremely important for making business decisions. It is worth your time and effort to ensure that you calculate conversion rates correctly.

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