Gm. In observance of Memorial Day, we have a slimmed down edition of Homescreen coming your way.
It’s a round up of some of our most clicked links, stats, and resources. Peruse it at your leisure, bookmark what you like, or just give it a skim.
Enjoy the read and have a great holiday.
STATS
Numbers to know
Each week we share a stat in the newsletter that caught our eye. Here are five especially good ones that you can whip out to impress your friends.
+88%: Tiger Global has already invested in nearly double the amount of startups over the first quarter of this year compared to last year. Insight Partners (+32%), and a16z (+15%) have also picked up the pace compared to 2021.
460: Stanford has produced the most funded startup founders since 2021. Across both undergraduate and MBA students, it boasts 460 founders with Harvard a distant second at 399.
$4.5 billion: Women-led venture funds have already raised more than they did in the entirety of 2021 and over 2x the amount raised in 2020.
$476 million worth of ETH changed hands during Yuga Labs' Otherdeeds mint, the highest volume day in OpenSea’s history.
8 seconds: That’s how long it took Manfred Paul, a hacker, to exploit Mozilla’s Firefox browser. The company paid him a bounty bonus of $100,000 which comes out to $12,500 per second of work.
RABBIT HOLE
Don't scroll TikTok...read these instead
Our rabbit hole section often contains the most clicked link from the entire newsletter. Here are 10 that you all especially enjoyed.
As inflation soars, how is AriZona iced tea still 99 cents? (LA Times).
How to onboard yourself when starting a new job (Twitter).
You don't need a fucking blockchain (Chris de la Iglesia).
“Hello world” in every computer language (GitHub).
Why the past 10 years of American History have been uniquely stupid. (The Atlantic).
How iOS and Android came to dominate mobile (De Programmatica Ipsum).
How Yuga Labs’ Otherdeeds smart contract failed to optimize for Ethereum gas fees (Twitter).
The emotions behind shutting down your startup (Fabian Dietrich).
The coming food catastrophe (The Economist).
The cities of the future (Blue Labyrinths).
FOUNDERS CORNER
The best startup building resources we’ve shared
Founders corner is where we take a break from the news to share some of the best tactical resources we come across. Here are the 10 most clicked links from that section.
📈 Li Jin studied 50+ startups on TikTok and put together a fantastic organic growth guide
⏭️ A thorough guide on how to raise follow-on capital
🧱 12 interesting ideas around product-market fit
🧵 A thread of startups with the best ~aesthetics~ and branding
📈 How to make your startup inevitable
🧠 A solid guide on managing your mental health while running a startup
🎨 A 4-minute creativity test
🤖 Learn how Open AI’s DALL-E 2 actually works
🏹 A guide detailing how to successfully launch on Product Hunt
⚓ Price anchoring is a psychology tip to charge more
MONDAY MUSING
We know lots of you are founders in the midst of building your companies. We also know that founders are notoriously bad at taking time off.
So today’s Monday musing is are you taking today off? Or are you still grinding?
NEWS FROM THE HOUSE
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Hope you enjoyed this slimmed down issue of Homescreen. We'll be back with our regularly scheduled programming on Wednesday.
