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Welcome to issue 496 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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General

Philosopher Versus MBA
While there are many exceptions, Reid Hoffman believes pursuing an MBA can generally be adverse signal for entrepreneurship. Instead, he encourages prospective entrepreneurs gain real-world experience by working at a startup and pursuing other courses of study that help form fundamental critical thinking skills.

Status, Wealth, & Power: Network Effects Demand A New Social Contract
We are the ones creating these massive network effect businesses. So it's up to us to write new social contracts for the people who use them.

Why now?
Why it matters for startups to have a strong "why now"—and also why it doesn't.

Disinformation for Hire, a Shadow Industry, Is Quietly Booming
Back-alley firms meddle in elections and promote falsehoods on behalf of clients who can claim deniability, escalating our era of unreality.

Mark in the metaverse
Facebook’s CEO on why the social network is becoming ‘a metaverse company’.

Marketing, Sales and PR

LinkedIn Organic
This playbook explains how to acquire customers through LinkedIn.

Go-to-Market Strategies: The Ultimate Playbook for Startup Expansion to International Markets
Here's the playbook to show you how to bring your startup to global markets with our Go-to-Market strategies. We bring you step-by-step, from understanding why you are launching your product to creating a team to reach your end customers, and make your global expansion a whole lot easier.

7 new product-led insights
A breakdown of OpenView's 2021 SaaS Product Benchmarks report

Money and Finance

Why Your Cap Table is a Crap Table
10 Reasons You Didn’t Get the Best Investors.

Why investors are raising climate tech funds at a torrid pace
Climate tech has significantly evolved since the first cleantech investment craze of the early 2000s. Today a growing group of investors is tackling one overarching global threat: climate change.

Startups of the Week

Miles
Miles is a universal rewards app empowering anyone to earn miles automatically for all forms of travel and commute. Similar to a frequent flyer program, but for all forms of transportation, Miles delivers value for every mile traveled, across every mode of travel, anywhere in the world.

Coinrule
Coinrule catches the next market opportunity on your behalf by automating your investments.

Tips, Tools and Services

The SaaS Org Chart
You've raised a new funding round. You need to staff up. Here's what that looks like.

7 do’s and don’ts to get better at giving and receiving feedback
If you’ve found yourself struggling with either, or if you simply want to make the most out of the feedback you’re giving and receiving, here are the few phrases I’ve learned and used that have been helpful.

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