CoFounder Weekly captures the zeitgeist of startups. This week’s newsletter has 4 sections: Weekly Cartoon, Tweeter’s Digest, Articles, and a Weekend Thought. The Crossword is getting a little botox injection to improve its appearance and will be back next week. This is not your average newsletter (could be better or worse).
Source: Ueli Johner x Sunday Sketch. (Btw, what is your favorite podcast? I’m compiling a list for a future post. Email back your responses!)
Tweeter’s Digest
A weekly Twitter recap for those who don’t check Twitter
Crossword
Articles
VC baseball cards is a thing. Sort of. $59.99 for a pack of 5. Link.
Why do all websites look the same? According to a recent Medium post by designer Boris Müller:
1) Technological frameworks like Content Management Systems (CMS) and blogging platforms like WordPress are based on templates. Templates are content agnostic.
2) Considering the speed of online news and the frequency of new articles, large websites simply do not have the resources to design a page from the ground up.
3) Web design is still a matter of technical expertise: HTML, JavaScript, and CSS remain challenging tools for designers.
4) Designers’ creative and intellectual laziness.
Easy-to-use (and often free) website builders are everywhere. Want to a landing page template? Use Cruip. Want a template for a home rental app like Airbnb or a crowdfunding site like KickStarter? Use Zeroqode. Need free icons? Feathericons.com Need free open-source illustrations? Use Undraw. Boom…you can build a new website in under an hour. But the true expense? Your template will lack its own identity.
Weekend Thought
An increasing number of founders are marketing their startups simply by sharing their day to day journeys.
One great example is Austen Allred, founder of Lambda School, an online coding school where you don’t have to pay back tuition until after you get a tech job.
Austen often tweets screenshots of his students getting job offers. His followers get a front row seat about the ups (and downs) of the process…
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