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Welcome to issue 481 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.
General

How to Start a New Country
The network state is built cloud first, land last. Rather than starting with the physical territory, we begin with a digital community.

The Pyramid of Co-Founder Success
This is the operating manual for Co-Founders to continuously manage the relationship at the core of their startup.

The Ponzi Career
The future of work is a pyramid scheme, where every person sells his favorite person to the next person. 

How We Bootstrapped a $1M ARR Email Client
Five years ago, we launched Missive, an innovative but somewhat hard-to-define email client to the world. Fast-forward to last week when we reached US$1M in annual recurring revenue (ARR). This is the story of how we did it.


Marketing, Sales and PR

State of SaaS Onboarding 2021
Analysis of onboarding best practices & strategies in SaaS.

Usage-Based Pricing 2.0
Here's what we've learned since launching the Usage-Based Pricing Playbook.

A Guide to B2B SaaS Onboarding
Lessons learned about how high-touch customer onboarding goes wrong... and how to make it right.


Money and Finance

Why Delaware is the se*iest place in America to incorporate a company 
Nearly 1.5m companies are incorporated in Delaware. How did this tiny state become a mecca for corporate activity? 

Global Venture Funding Hits All-Time Record High $125B In Q1 2021
In the first quarter of 2021, global venture investments reached $125 billion, a 50 percent increase quarter over quarter and a whopping 94 percent increase year over year, and global funding hit an all-time high, marking the first single quarter to reach above $100 billion, according to Crunchbase data.


Startups of the Week

EcoCart 
Saving the planet, one online order at a time. Free Chrome extension & e-commerce plugin that makes orders carbon neutral.

SnackMagic
The personalized snack box that’s super easy to gift and ridiculously fun to get.

DoControl 
DoControl makes data access control painless. Not sure who has access to your data? Gain critical insights into your data exposure, enforce access policies at scale, and never stop business enablement.

Abacum
Abacum helps finance teams scale their companies through business insights, collaboration and automation.

CrowdAI
CrowdAI’s vision is to lead the next industrial transformation with AI. We empower anyone to create and deploy custom AI solutions for maximizing value from visual data.

Spaceli 
Turn Google Docs into a knowledge base.


Tips, Tools and Services

Joining a Startup for the First Time?
30 Actionable Tips From Folks Who've Been There.

Facebook Think Kit
Using Design Thinking to Make Meetings Work for Everyone.

Evaluating Modest SaaS Business Ideas
A list of questions to consider when evaluating SaaS business ideas and trying to booststrap a modest SaaS business.
 
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