WTF happened in 1971? 📉 (Startup Watching #238)

As the access to capital is becoming less certain, StartEngine has seen its site wide weekly investments grow week over week in the last 4 weeks.

Hear from StartEngine’s CEO Howard Marks at their virtual Founders Summit about raising capital in the time of Coronavirus. If you missed it last week, you’ll definitely want to check out this recording!

I loved this piece from Amy Hoy, one of my favorite business writers. In the first part of her guide to dealing with a recession she talks about being kind to yourself and finding small ways to help. I’ve also got her IndieHackers podcast episode queued up to listen to in the shower tomorrow.

Two extraordinary women — one 101, the other 95 — lived through the worst of the 20th century. Perspective is so valuable in a time like this. As bleak as things may feel, people have been through bleak times before and gotten through them.

It’s easy to think that when thing get bad people are going to be more selfish. But this piece is a good reminder that people actually tend to band together and help each other when disaster strikes.

This was a good read I found on the IndieHackers forum by Elliot Bonneville. He talks about his latest SaaS project, which he’s building for just 1 person. More specifically, his dad. I like his super practical application of the classic “do things that don’t scale” advice.

I have yet to read all the way through this new guide to reducing churn from the Baremetrics team because… tbh, it’s massive. But it looks packed with useful advice from multiple founders.

This is a fascinating series of graphs showing how growth of personal incomes and savings has basically stopped completely despite continued growth in GDP and productivity… ever since 1971.