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Welcome to issue 474 of Founder Weekly. We have a packed issue this week. Enjoy it!
General

Are sports cards the future of retail investing?
A deep dive into the next wave in consumer fintech — P2P marketplaces for previously private assets.

Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long?
A great post by the founder of Waze on why he sold the company and how the acquisition by the Google turned out.

NFTs make the internet ownable
Why crypto is becoming the "port of entry" for all internet media.

The first Industrial Revolution from home
You can start your dream job from your kitchen table.

Making Self-Care Tactical — Why You Should Focus on Boundaries, Not Just Bubble Baths
Therapist Jessmina Archbold (publicly known as Minaa B.) shares her detailed guide to deeper self-care work, pushing back against common myths, offering up tactical advice and making the case for focusing on boundaries.

Three Types Of Startup Advisors You Might Not Have Thought About (But Will Help You Win)
Advisors can be so much more than social proof and tactical advice.


Marketing, Sales and PR

How to Do a Content Audit (the Strategic Way)
Hidden in your articles are thousands of dollars of unclaimed revenue. Discover how a content audit can unlock it.

How Headspace Attracts 8 Million Leads Per Year Through Content Clusters
This article is a breakdown of Headspace's content strategy to land over 270.000 links across the web, rank for more than 100.000 keywords, and have more than 66 million signed users.

How to Bottle Community Lightning Like Datadog
Nobody can convince people to join a community. They have to want to. 

A primer on Sales Ops (a.k.a. SOPs) for early-stage B2B founders
Some key learnings based on my experience working at Box, Anaplan, Framer and Uber. Bonus: a template job desc for your first SOPs hire


Money and Finance

Both Things Can Be True: Bias and Bad Fundraising Advice
There are 99 problems, but they fall into different categories than you might assume.

How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions
An inside look at an opaque process.


Startups of the Week

Kalshi 
Trade on what matters to you. Kalshi enables you to trade directly on the outcome of events. It is a new financial exchange for you to trade on your opinion and hedge everyday risks.

Olive 
Online Shopping, Unboxed. 100s of your favorite fashion sites. Cardboard-free deliveries. Crazy simple returns.

LyteLoop
Power your storage with high capacity lasers carrying data in endless loops. From rack-sized solutions, to satellites, we're bringing a new and better breed of storage to the world.

Gridware
Gridware provides a grid monitoring system of sensors and software for the power distribution grid. The platform detects and predicts faults that ignite wildfires, expedites repairs during a power outage, and helps utilities demonstrate risk reduction.


Tips, Tools and Services

Clubhouse Made Simple
A Step-By-Step Guide.

How Context Switching Sabotages Your Productivity
Every time you switch between apps and tasks, you leave a little bit of your attention behind. Here's what you can do about it.

10+ Follow-Up Email Examples You Should Share With Your Team
To make your follow-up email strategy easy for you, we have compiled a guide of follow-up emails, split into different categories based on the type of follow-up emails you’re writing.

17 UX/UI Trends for 2021
It is necessary for a capable UX/UI designer to keep track of any changes in the industry. Here are the top UX/UI trends that you should follow in 2021.

9 Tricks to build your Talent Acquisition function
Some practical pieces of advice for scaling your team after raising a Seed round.
 
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