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Welcome to issue 531 of Founder Weekly. I will be away next week and so there won't be newsletter issue.

General

I Started A $1,000,000 Business In 24 Hours
10 years ago Noah Kagan started AppSumo in 24 hours, today the business is worth over $270,000,000. In this video, he tries using the same 4-step process to see if we can end up with a million dollar business by the end of the day.

The Tactical Guide to Making Better Decisions When Starting and Scaling Companies
The First Round team has been lucky to work with retired poker player and decision-making expert Annie Duke in a special capacity these past few years. Here, we open-source some of the advice she gives to help founders face down uncertainty and make better decisions.

Equity 101
Carta launched Equity 101 — a free, interactive course designed to help everyone learn the fundamentals of equity.

Marketing, Sales and PR

How To Build Amazing Content Briefs
Looking for tips on how to create better content briefs? We'll show you how to build briefs that your writers will love, without spending hours.

How To Announce Your Seed Round
As a former Forbes Staff Writer, I’ve seen thousands of pitches. Here’s how I tell Primary portfolio companies to approach PR—and why I don’t think press placements are make or break.

Top 10 tips helping founders & startups win on TikTok
Being early to TikTok presents a massive opportunity for founders & brands to build awareness for their startups – driving downloads for apps and sales for D2C companies and services, and building an organic community along the way. To help founders and startups navigate this new world, I spoke to some of the top founders & startups on TikTok and summarized the top 10 tips & tricks that help scale both founder-led and brand-led accounts.

Your Guide to Product Virality
How To Position Nearly Any PLG Product for Virality.

How The Best International Growth Decisions Are Made
Over the last two decades, I have led both successful and failed international growth efforts. Adopt the "where, when, if" framework, so you can learn from my own battle scars and the insights of other tech leaders.

Money and Finance

Transferable Skills? Founders as Venture Capitalists
This paper explores whether or not the experience as a founder of a venture capital-backed startup influences the performance of founders who become venture capitalists (VCs).

Global Venture Funding Fell Last Quarter For The First Time In A Year
Global venture funding reached $160 billion in the first quarter of 2022, Crunchbase data shows, marking the first time in a year of funding records when funding fell quarter over quarter. While the most recent quarter’s funding totals slowed compared to the end of 2021, it’s too soon to call it a puncturing of the bubble: The first-quarter tally still topped every quarter in 2020.

The VC Guide to Mergers & Acquisitions

The biggest VC firms are managing a lot more moolah than you thought

Startups of the Week

Dayslice
Freedom from the grind. Earn income by sharing your expertise.

Heyday
Automatically organize content - without learning a new app.

Merge
One API to integrate with all HR, payroll, recruiting, accounting, and ticketing platforms.

Tips, Tools and Services

How about we make Product Strategy simple?
You don’t need to create a plan for the perfect product that is defensible for 1,000 years in some “meta-verse” like Oasis. You just need a simple program that’ll help your team navigate through learning about and solving valuable customer problems. Concentrate on building products customers love. And you can make the features fit together later.

The Art of Product Management
Why and How to Develop the Essential Human Skills.

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