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Welcome to issue 520 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

Telegram: How to Counter-Attack
A great post about how Telegram has become a social media giant defined by its counter-positioning.

Wordle founder Josh Wardle on going viral and what comes next
'People have an appetite for things that transparently don’t want anything from you.'

Startups for Students Guide
In this guide, we’ll discuss why you should think about starting a startup and why you should consider not starting a startup. We’ll also talk about what you should do in college and walk through some tips for applying to Y Combinator. And if it turns out being a founder isn’t for you, we’ll talk about how to choose the right company and the benefits of working at a startup.

Stalin in the Metaverse
New ecosystems cannot create old monsters. But they can create new ones. Here's what we can do about it.

Innovation Hubs: Past and Future

Marketing, Sales and PR

How Grammarly Built A $13B+ Brand Targeting Simple Typos
How Grammarly beat out entrenched companies like Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com on their way to a $13B valuation.

State of Subscriptions
Want to run your subscription business more effectively? This report will provide you with an overview of the trends in the recurring revenue space. You'll learn how to define your products and services, design your acquisition tools, expand internationally, and mitigate churn. We provide overall trends and insights broken out by B2B and B2C customers, and analysis across the various industries.

Your guide to PQLs
Product Qualified Leads (PQLs) are users who signal their buying intent based on product usage rather than just traditional marketing or sales qualification. This post attempts to demystify PQLs and share practical tips for getting started on your PQL journey.

5 Competitor Analysis Tools You Should Be Using
Tried and tested tools that won't break the bank.

Money and Finance

Raising Capital as a Pseudonymous Founder
Crypto’s pseudonymous founders typically don’t curate a daunting, ominous presence – in fact, most have colorful profile pictures (pfps) tethered to their identities. Investors that want to retain a competitive edge in crypto are rushing to develop frameworks to better evaluate faceless founders. Though this is a relatively new phenomenon and there is no industry-wide playbook, here is an outline of what investors currently look for when diligencing a pseudonymous team.

Y Combinator's new deal
Y Combinator recently announced a new deal where they will still invest $125,000 for 7% and will also invest an additional $375,000 on an uncapped safe with “Most Favored Nation” (MFN) terms. There have been great discussions on how this new deal will impact founders and angel/seed investors. Check out some of those discussions here, here, here and here

Startups of the Week

Arcade
Add interactive snippets of your product to your website, blog, or social media so customers can try before they buy.

Web3Auth
Simple auth infra for Web3 appsapps and walletswallets.

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