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14 steps for acquiring your startup's first customers:

1. Pay to interview people who've successfully grown a startup like yours. You can find them via LinkedIn Sales Navigator.

2. Ask them which 3 channels (ads, SEO, etc.) you should prioritize for acquiring customers.

3. Ask for examples of companies who run these channels well.

Some channels to ask about:

• PR
• Ads
• SEO
• Influencers
• Sponsorships
• Organic social
• Word-of-mouth
• In-depth content
• Referral incentives
• Product-led invites (think Slack, Zoom, Dropbox)

4. Reverse-engineer how those companies run their channels well:

A. Map each step the customer takes between the channel and becoming a happy customer.

B. Study what makes each step great: its pitch, its design, and its user experience.

Here's an example of steps.

• Someone sees your Facebook ad ← Channel
• They visit your page
• Enter their email
• Trial the product
• Pay for the product
• Stay engaged
• Refer more users

(Tools like Ahrefs + FB Ad Library show you competitors' ads and landing pages!)

Who are the best angel investors that are also operators?

Managing Director at Blackrock quits after 15 years on Wallstreet.

Why?

To become a fulltime creator.

26 ideas from @khemaridh on how to become a fulltime creator.

h/t @dickiebush #ship30for30 office hours

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It's not how skilled you are.

It's your willingness to show up.

Nobody knows what they are doing.

Everyone is trying to figure it out.

Just keep going.

Be selfish with your creation.

Scratch your own itch.

Do things that stimulate your mind.

Nobody wants to compete with someone who:

1. Has fun doing what they are doing
2. Spends 16 hours on their craft

Follow your curiosity and you will always win.

venture capital is so genuinely fascinating to me. who are players in the space I can follow who are especially focused on deep tech, the future of work, and scientific projects?

thanks so much guys!

How to write a good tweet:

• Start with a subject line
• Then, it's all about cadence
• Provide concise value in bullet-points
• And be mindful of aesthetics to keep it easy to read

Then, finish with a punchy sentence or call to action.

Now go write some tweets.

If you want to get better at writing, do yourself a favor and subscribe to this free email series by @david_perell. I read every issue and take something away each time. Often, something game-changing. And it’s

4 Learning phases:

1. Unconscious incompetence - "I don't know how bad I am"

2. Conscious incompetence - "This sucks. I know how bad I am"

3. Conscious competence - "I can do this if I focus"

4. Unconscious competence - "I don't remember the last 10 minutes of driving my car"

Building an audience, simplified.

• Share a ton of ideas.
• Find the ones that resonate.
• Find a way to repeat those in 100 different ways.

@andreasjonssonn - Anyone Can Grow a Twitter Audience by @dvassallo
- Build Once, Sell Twice by @visualizevalue
- The Laws of Copywriting by @davegerhardt
- Twitter Money by @CJ_Johnson17th

All different, all a lot of fun to go through.

My new workflow for savings threads to read later:

1. Tag @buzz_chronicles save
2. Save to @instapaper
3. Highlight relevant parts
4. Automatic @readwiseio to @NotionHQ sync

Request for @readwiseio - improve Tweet / tweet thread saving workflow