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Welcome to issue 511 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.
General

How we bootstrapped our open source Google Analytics alternative to $500k ARR
It took us a year to reach the first $400 MRR and then it took us nine months to go from $400 to $10k MRR. Now, ten months after the $10k milestone, we’re at $500,000 ARR. Here’s a brief overview of who we are and how we got here.

The Feedback Founders Need to Hear — How to Grow Yourself To Grow The Company
After 20 years of executive coaching, Alisa Cohn shares advice for getting better at self-reflection, collecting feedback, and changing behavior.

Crypto and the Conservation of Centralization
You can't decentralize the web. You can only kill old winners and pick new ones. Here's how. 

2021 SaaS Survey Results
This report provides an analysis of the results of a survey of private SaaS companies which KBCM Technology Group’s software investment banking team conducted in June and July 2021.


Marketing, Sales and PR

Finding Language/Market Fit: How to Make Customers Feel Like You’ve Read Their Minds
After more than a decade of running B2B growth teams at PayPal and investing at 500 Startups, Matt Lerner now spends his days helping early-stage startups with growth. He's seen firsthand how changes in a handful of words can yield jaw-dropping differences in conversion — and accelerate a startup's course to product/market fit. Here, he makes the case for starting with language/market fit first, and offers up his 4-step process for getting there.

Why is Usage-Based Pricing on the Rise? Our Study Reveals a Growing Trend
Usage-based pricing is a hot trend, but does it deliver? The answer—according to our recent study—appears to be yes.

9 Thoughts on What Makes For a Good Pricing Page
What makes for a good pricing page?  It’s a challenging question because most of us don’t have the volume to really do A/B tests (although try, of course).  We have to at least start by copying best practices from the leaders. A few thoughts at least — mainly about what to copy from the big leaders, and what to maybe not copy from them.


Money and Finance

The Complete Investor
The rise of the full stack VC model.

A Twitter Troll's Take on the Future of Investing
Redpoint Ventures partner Logan Bartlett on VC in a world of ubiquitous capital.


Startups of the Week

Vint
Vint is a SEC-qualified platform allowing investors to buy shares in collections of fine wine, spirits, and similar offerings.

Equipifi 
Equipifi is the BNPL solution for banks and credit unions.


Tips, Tools and Services

What Does the Future of People Operations Look Like?
A conversation with Oyster’s Head of Remote on how distributed teamwork is transforming the field of HR forever.

How To Win The Startup War For Talent
Over the last few months, a new workplace conversation has overshadowed any hand wringing about the return to offices: the problem of keeping the employees you have. Asheem Chandna from Greylock shares the three things CEOs should do to win the startup talent war.
 
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