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Welcome to issue 477 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

How Dapper Labs scored NBA crypto millions
The company behind CryptoKitties, the first glimmer that consumers might get excited about blockchain-backed digital goods, is poised to hit the mainstream with NBA Top Shot.

The Product Strategy Stack
As software has eaten the world, product has become the most important lever for a company's success. In the past, companies gained a strategic advantage by excelling in supply chains, logistics, manufacturing, and other operational capabilities. Today, companies win or lose based on the quality of their products—and this puts enormous pressure on product teams to not just deliver products, but deliver products that drive the company's strategy.

The Paradox of Genius: Why Long-Term Thinking Wins
James Currier and Kevin Kelly uncover not just how to be the best, and the only, but also the importance of building something that endures.

State of the Cloud 2021
In the New Normal, Bessemer explores cloud economy milestones, what's driving cloud valuations, and the frameworks to help founders accelerate go-to-market momentum.

Free is here to stay
How I learned to stop worrying and embrace free products.

Marketing, Sales and PR

Confessions of an Influencer Whisperer
How Amber Venz Box and her ‘Harvard of Influencing’ taught social media stars how to monetize their brands and got everyone else to spend billions on Instagram.

How to hire a VP Marketing
Valuable tips for making one of the hardest VP hires from experts at Delivery Hero, Zendesk, and more.

Bottom Up Pricing & Packaging: Let the User Journey Be Your Guide
In this post, we pull from our experiences working with bottom up companies across open source, infrastructure, and SaaS applications to provide guideposts for understanding and mapping the user journey to figure out the right product tiers, how to differentiate them, and how to price them.

What is Product Marketing, and what do PMMs do?

How Selling Has Changed Post-COVID, and How it Will Change Again Afterwards

Money and Finance

OpenVC
All VC firms by thesis. Radically free and open.

SAFE and Convertible Note Calculator
This calculator helps early-stage founders plan for SAFE and Convertible Note financings by modeling the impact of their conversion in a future priced round.

VC firms sat out the early SPAC craze. Now many are changing their tune.
When the SPAC craze took off last year, many VCs were wary. But now the lure of SPAC sponsorship has become too attractive for some to resist.

Startups of the Week

Alt
Invest in sports cards just like stocks. Alt is increasing the transparency and liquidity of alternative assets

Pry
Finance for Founders. Pry is a platform for accounting + financial planning + business intelligence.

Demostack
Great Demos Win Deals. Deliver tailored demos that drive discovery, build connection, and win more business.

Tips, Tools and Services

A tactical guide to kickstarting your community
An inside look at how we built the Orbit community from zero to one.

Make better decisions by running small experiments.
Leverage small experiments to make better and inclusive decisions faster.

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