View this email in your browser

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 525 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

5 Core Startup Metrics
A lot of early-stage Founders ask us: What metrics really matter in my startup? After investing in hundreds of companies and building 10+ ourselves, we always come back to 5 core metrics for technology startups.

How to Build a Decacorn
Ali Ghodsi, DataBricks CEO and Co-Founder, breaks down the evolution of DataBricks’ business model and the company’s go-forward vision as a broader platform for data scientists and ML engineers. And he offers advice for founders trying to build a company out of an open-source project.

The New Computing Paradigm
From the widespread embrace of crypto and NFTs to the proliferation of DAOs and the numerous innovations in blockchain-based infrastructure and storage, the new computing paradigm of Web3 is quickly becoming mainstream.

The Foundations of Entrepreneurship
This entrepreneurship course will teach you the important lessons that they don't teach you in business school. You will learn about topics such as how to network, how to find customers, and how to get a job.

Marketing, Sales and PR

The Simple Guide to Building a Martech Stack
No one marketing platform can handle it all. Or be the best at everything. That’s why marketers need to build martech stacks with various tools. Here’s how.

Your Guide to Product-Led Marketing
A compilation of product-led marketing approaches with examples from well-known companies like Hotjar, Zapier, Miro, Ahrefs, SafetyCulture, and Grammarly. Repurpose one or more of these approaches to kickstart your PLG flywheel.

The Sales Sandwich
The most consistent sales leader I’ve worked with hit plan 27 consecutive quarters. How can a sales leader develop similar repeatability? Much goes into it here are the reports he used to manage his team at the board level.

How Toast’s $12M+ SEO Moat Helped Them Grow During a Pandemic
How exactly did Toast survive the darkest days of the pandemic and emerge on the other side, ready for launch? And how did they keep their clients engaged when restaurateurs across the nation (and globe) were largely tightening their purse strings?

Introducing enterprise sales to a product-led growth organization
Layering on enterprise sales to a bottoms-up motion can be a breakthrough, or it can be a dangerous pitfall if not implemented well—these six lessons are proven best practices to launch an enterprise go-to-market engine in a PLG company.

Money and Finance

How To Raise Funding When Investors Hate Your Market
There’s a Specific Strategy For Getting Capital When Sentiment Turns Sour.

State of Private Markets: Q4 2021 and year in review
To help investors, founders, and employees make decisions and benchmark past performance, Carta regularly shares insights from our private market data. Here’s what we saw in 2021.

Startups of the Week

Grupa
Grupa pairs cross-functional product teams made up of employees from FAANG companies with startups that need to scale quickly.

Bardeen
Bardeen saves you time by automating repetitive tasks with a shortcut. It combines a powerful workflow builder, AI-based recommendations, and contextual automation.

Tips, Tools and Services

Engineering Org Structures— The QRF Team Model
Take control of engineering team interruptions and prevent them from happening ever again.

7 Mental Models for Business Owners to Stay in Business
Get familiar with these 7 mental models in business to not only start a business but also to stay in business.

Our Other Newsletters

Python Weekly - A free weekly newsletter featuring the best hand curated news, articles, tools and libraries, new releases, jobs etc related to Python.

Programmer Weekly - A free weekly newsletter for programmers.

Copyright © 2022 Founder Weekly, All rights reserved.
You are receiving our weekly newsletter because you signed up at http://www.FounderWeekly.com.

Our mailing address is:

Founder Weekly

Brooklyn

Brooklyn, NY 11209

Add us to your address book

Want to change how you receive these emails?
You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

Founder Weekly - Founder Weekly - Issue 525

Founder Weekly

Older messages

Founder Weekly - Issue 524

Founder Weekly - Issue 521

Founder Weekly - Issue 520

Founder Weekly - Issue 519

Founder Weekly - Issue 518

You Might Also Like

My 2024 year in review

🗞 What's New: Here's why you should be watching startup movies

🚀 Relativity Valuation Plummets

⏰ 48 hours left - the #1 reason an ecommerce venture fails

Meta just killed its diversity, equity and inclusion program

quitters day

🌟 Social Media Trends, AI Tools, and Expert Marketing Tutorials!🚀

We found the best time to post on Instagram

10words: Top picks from this week

Issue #134: Building $1K-$10K MRR Micro SaaS Products: RAG-as-a-Service, AI Voice Agent for Appointments, Employee…