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Welcome to issue 494 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.
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General

210 Of The Biggest, Costliest Startup Failures Of All Time
From financial fraud to just running out of money, we scanned our database to identify 210 of the most expensive startup flameouts in history.

The future of (ads) privacy
The seismic change brewing in the attention economy, and how Google, Apple and others will redesign a trillion-dollar paradigm.

Ultrafast Delivery: The $28B Market to Build the On-Demand Bodega
$1B+ has been invested in rapid delivery startups since the pandemic accelerated the rise of online grocery. Gorillas, Getir, Flink, Zapp and other companies are working to build sustainable unit economics around delivery and build the next CVS.

The Talent Portfolio
Individual people are the next big asset class. 


Marketing, Sales and PR

Content Creation: The Complete Guide for Beginners
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to find and choose long-tail keywords with high traffic potential and/or low competition (even if they have low individual search volume)


Money and Finance

The 23 Rules of Storytelling For Fundraising
As a Founder, you are the Chief Storyteller. Here are the storytelling methods we have observed in pitches that motivate VCs to invest.

The (common) situation where VCs actually prefer to make less money
Why do founders often own so little of the companies they create? It’s often because of the incentives of their investors, pressing them to raise evermore money.

Tiger vs. SoftBank: Inside the investing playbooks that upended Silicon Valley
The two firms invested the most money into startups so far in 2021. But how they do it is completely different.

Q2 2021 State Of Venture Report
Global data and analysis on dealmaking, funding, and exits in private-market companies.

After 30 years, Crossing The Chasm Is Due for a Refresh
Why Markets Are Larger Than They Appear.


Startups of the Week

Cloverly
A Sustainability-as-a-Service platform calculates and purchases carbon offsets to neutralize the environmental impact of everyday activities like ecommerce deliveries, ridesharing, flights, and more.

Cadoo 
Get fit, get rewarded! Cadoo keeps you motivated, and pays you for reaching your fitness goals!


Tips, Tools and Services

How a Stripe Product Manager predicts & prevents problems before launch
How Stripe's product team uses pre-mortems to prevent major problems for important launches and initiatives.

Grow Your Career Like You Grow A Product
When looking at our career as a product, we can apply many of the same principles of this system. Let's take a look.
 
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