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Welcome to issue 473 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

How CEO-For-Hire Frank Slootman Turned Snowflake Into Software’s Biggest-Ever IPO
Snowflake’s Frank Slootman doesn’t start companies. But no CEO has a better track record for turning the ideas of others into jackpots. Now the 3x IPO veteran is exclusively sharing his playbook.

Building a great product management organization
What product managers do and how to identify great ones.

The Rise of the Community Department
The emergence of the next big SaaS category is underway.

State of Independent SaaS Report 2021
The State of Independent SaaS Report was generated based on the data of hundreds of non-venture track, revenue generating SaaS companies that we analyzed and turned into an epic report filled with benchmarks, growth rates, demographics, validation approaches, and more.

Scaling Product Delivery
The "Dirty" Secret of High Performing Product Teams.

Marketing, Sales and PR

4 Product Marketing Growth Hacks That Actually Last
Need product marketing growth hacks to get more traffic, conversions, and revenue? If you’re looking for marketing strategies that last, try these!

Importance of Topical Authority
A Semantic SEO Case Study.

Common Mistakes In Defining Metrics

Money and Finance

How To: Raise a Seed Full Guide
Raising a Seed Round? Pillar VC shares our full guide to raising a Seed Round, from advice on forming a company to negotiating a Seed term sheet.

Startups of the Week

PayZen
Better financial outcomes for patients and providers powered by machine learning and AI.

TalkShopLive
The first live streaming, social selling online network for anyone, anywhere to sell almost anything!

Zolve
Seamless cross-border banking, at your fingertips.

scribe
Transform meetings into instantly searchable and shareable video & text.

Tips, Tools and Services

Some Advice for Startup Founders in the Era of Big Tech
Over the last five years, Google/Apple/Facebook/Amazon (GAFA) have gone from being inspirations to … competitive sharks that can easily gobble up the market share and margin of the smaller startups surrounding them. Here’s some advice for founders in the era of Big Tech.

Don’t do what makes you happy. Do this instead
Most of us are not fortunate enough to stumble into a labor of love that also happens to make money. That means we need a different way to find work with personal meaning and financial reward. It turns out, that way has been here all our lives. It’s just gone unnoticed.

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