Founder Secrets
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Practical advice from the world's best startup founders
Manuel Bleve
Founder Secrets β€” Weekly newsletter on how top founders grew their startups
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πŸ’‘ Weekly newsletter to learn how the best founders grew their startups
πŸ“œ Read by 1,000+ founders
πŸ“¬ Delivered every Friday. For $0
🧡 Interviewed founders include Tyler Denk (Beehiiv), Andrew Gazdecki (Acquire), and more
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Manuel Bleve
Hi Product Hunters! πŸ‘‹ Super excited to finally launch here! I’m Manuel, one of the makers of Founder Secrets and a team member at Wefunder, the home of community rounds. πŸ™Œ Over the past 10 years, we've been privileged to meet founders who have built and sold companies for billions of dollars. With Founder Secrets, we want to help you learn from the exact strategies they used. We interview the best founders we know with questions about: - Growth - Fundraising - Hiring - Management - Sales And so much more. We then craft a newsletter distilling all the key learnings and deliver it straight to your inbox every Friday. Can’t wait to welcome you to our growing community of 1,000+ readers. And if you have any recommendations for founders we should interview, feel free to comment below. More than happy to connect πŸ™Œ
Sachin Jain
Congratulations on the launch! Subscribing to this & Looking forward to getting some Insights from founders secrets & stories!
Manuel Bleve
@sachinjain024 That's awesome! We should have you as a guest on the show!!
Yuhang Xia
@manuel_bleve1 Can we recommend ourselves? Would like to connect! Congrats on the launch!
Manuel Bleve
@michaelyuhe Thanks!! Are you on Beehiiv as well?
Sandra Djajic
As part of a Startup team myself I feel like in this field every hint and advice is important and might lead you to success. Congratulations on the launch!
Manuel Bleve
@sandradjajic So true!! Thanks, Sandra!
Romano Pravdic
Hey ?makers congrats on the launch. Looks interesting, what's your motivation for starting this newsletter?
Thomas McKinlay
Yes!! Big congrats on the launch - I've been waiting for this. Founder Secrets deserves to be read by way many more people!
Manuel Bleve
@thomas_mckinlay1 Thomas, Thank you so much!! And so does Ariyh!!
Kas Szatylowicz
This is cool! Are you going to eventually turn it into podcast, too ? ;-) Also a founder/CEO to interview - David Haber (Lakera.ai). If you are keen, I'd be happy to make an intro ;-) connect wtih me at ks@lakera.ai.
Shiv Shankar
Congrats on the launch, Manuel! I registered for this, excited to explore unique insights straight from the founders.
Alfonso Quijano
Hey wow love this! We’re on a mission to get incredible founder stories to be part of our Warrior Network, perhaps we can collaborate? https://warrior-network.com
Felix HΓ€berle
Congrats on the launch, I registered myself. I'm currently also working at a startup and we permanently try to find new ways to accelerate even further.
Maria Loleyt
Yeeeeeah! This is so needed! Will you have any community building features inside?
Manuel Bleve
@maria_loleyt Thank you!!! That's on the roadmap!
Katie Powers
Big fan of this newsletter and the guests who offer tangible advice! Great range of founders from all backgrounds as well.
Kunal Mehta
Congratulations on your successful launch! It's impressive to see the engagement with your weekly newsletter. Offering valuable insights from experienced founders for free is a brilliant strategy to attract and retain a wide audience. Keep delivering high-quality content and fostering a strong community to continue growing your startup! πŸš€
Manuel Bleve
@realkunalmehta Thanks, Kunal!
Shantanu Banerjee
Found this today, excited! Any reason to do a manual email reply verification over a button click automation?
Manuel Bleve
@shantanu_banerjee Hey Shantau! Yes! When new subscribers reply to the first email this sends a good signal to Google improving our domain reputation. This helps with deliverability and open rate!
Rahul Luthra
Congrats on the launch! I love productivity tools and products like these. I will subscribe and looking forward to learning from these founders!
Radu Tudosescu
I think will help a lot of people! Congrats on your launch and good luck!
Manuel Bleve
@radu_tudosescu Thanks, Radu! Appreciate it!
Vy Tran
Yayyy Jonny and the Wefunder team! Thank you for always providing value and inspo to everyone around you :) Looking forward to more great newsletters!
Manuel Bleve
@tralalavy This is awesome! Thank you so much!
Exo Cody
Launching soon!
Hi @manuel_bleve ! This weekly newsletter sounds like a goldmine for startup growth insights! Question: How do you select the founders to interview, and what's the key criterion for featuring them in your newsletter? Looking forward to diving into this valuable resource!Can we recommend ourselves? I'd be happy to make an intro ;-) Connect with me at comingsoon@exocoding.com and I will share with our thoughts and growth secrets!
Adam Gold
Super cool! What's the incentive of founders to publish on your platform, different than other platforms?
Manuel Bleve
@adamgold7 We interview founders each week to discover all the secrets behind their journey and then share them with an audience of 1,200+ founders!
Nathan May
Congrats @manuel_bleve1 Been a ton of fun getting to know the newsletter community better, surprised I haven't run into FS yet but just subscribed. I love founder case studies. I have a newsletter of 15k readers I'm thinking about launching on PH. Mind if I reach out to you (LinkedIn? Couldn't find your Twitter) to ask about your process prepping to go live on PH?
Manuel Bleve
@nathan_may1 For sure!!
Andrew Gazdecki
Congrats on the launch Manuel!
Manuel Bleve
@andrewgazdecki You are the best! Thanks, Andrew!
Bob Sopko
I've known wefunder from the early days when the JOBS act passed. Great to see this sharing from the years of experience along with up to date real stories. It will help guide many!