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Harsh Makadia
@MakadiaHarsh 1 year, 1 month ago 238 views

Bad News:
Building a startup is hard.

Good News:
No-code is the magic pill to save time and money.

Here are 10 no-code tools every startup should know in 2022 🧵:

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7 Killer Websites for Web Developers.

99% of them will find it incredibly useful.

I wish I had known earlier.

THREAD 🧵 ↓

1. Witeboard

A real-time whiteboard for your team. No signups are required.

Go to "witeboard. com",

Make a quick sketch, grab a share link and send it to your co-worker.

2. Whatruns

Discover what runs a website in one click.

Free browser extension lookup tool for developers, designers, and salespeople to discover the technologies used on any website.

3. Coverr

Download royalty-free (for personal and commercial use), unique and beautiful video footage for your website or project.

No attribution is required.

4.Untools

Collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions, and understand systems.

Harsh Makadia
@MakadiaHarsh

8 Brilliant websites that use AI to save you countless hours of manual work ( I bet ) :

1. Photosonic AI

Create realistic or artistic images from any text description, using a state-of-the-art text-to-image AI model.

No design skills or Photoshop are required.

Generate images in seconds.

🔗 https://t.co/5GSeTfmfgw

2. Tribescaler

Your tweets go viral with Tribescaler.

It enables you to create better hooks faster, saving you hundreds of hours.

Write more effectively and quickly.

🔗 https://t.co/dUx2BNaVZc

3. ClipDrop

The ultimate ecosystem of apps, plugins & resources for all creators.

Remove objects, people, text, and defects from your pictures automatically.

Upscales your images by 2x or 4x in seconds.

🔗 https://t.co/yzTiQ5RJRn

4. Synthesia

Web-based platform for creating videos with AI avatars and voices.

Simple, intuitive, and requires no prior knowledge of video creation.

Create professional videos in over 60 languages.

🔗 https://t.co/HPaGTV4moU

Harsh Makadia
@MakadiaHarsh

8 websites that will save you money and get things done for free ( you'll thank me later ) 🧵:

1. PDF Drive

PDF Drive is your search engine for PDF files.

Today, there are 80,422,827 eBooks for you to download for free.

🔗 https://t.co/JZdcHeqV4V

2. TinyPNG

TinyPNG uses smart lossy compression techniques to reduce the file size of your WEBP, JPEG, and PNG files.

🔗 https://t.co/Z6cOHskseV

3. SmallPDF

All the tools you’ll need to be more productive and work smarter with documents.

🔗 https://t.co/b52ts1h7zf

4. Photpea

Photopea is a web-based photo and graphics editor.

It is used for editing, making illustrations, web design, or converting different image formats.

🔗 https://t.co/1eEAOZzCmz

Harsh Makadia
@MakadiaHarsh

Must know free tools for Startups:

@NotionHQ —Notes
@WriteSonic —Writing blogs
@canva —Graphics
@make_hq —Automation
@gumroad —Selling
@beehiiv —Newsletter
@testimonialto —Testimonials
@wotnot_io —Chatbot
@copy_ai —Writing copy
@TheQuillBot —Repharser
@loom —Video

10X output!

Harsh Makadia
@MakadiaHarsh

Google Chrome has 137,345+ extensions.

But only a few are super handy.

Here are 10 Chrome extensions that you cannot miss:

1. ScribeHow

Screen recording extension that turns any process into a guide instantly.

Perfect for: founders, creators, entrepreneurs, educators, and more.

Reduce the time you spend documenting and sharing processes by 93%

🔗 https://t.co/lPncjsnScF

2. Text Blaze

Eliminate repetitive typing and mistakes.

Easy-to-use templates with endless customizability and powerful automation.

All with full control at your fingertips.

🔗 https://t.co/WB4ChCRrk3

3. Print Friendly

Make any web page Print Friendly & PDF.

Removes Junk.

Editable Preview.

PDF with clickable links.

🔗 https://t.co/onthbnWhF6

4. GoFullPage

The best browser extension for taking a screenshot of an entire webpage.

🔗 https://t.co/wdwVLlSTFg

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Jim O'Shaughnessy
@jposhaughnessy

I’m torn on how to approach the idea of luck. I’m the first to admit that I am one of the luckiest people on the planet. To be born into a prosperous American family in 1960 with smart parents is to start life on third base. The odds against my very existence are astronomical.

Ironies of Luck https://t.co/5BPWGbAxFi

"Luck is the flip side of risk. They are mirrored cousins, driven by the same thing: You are one person in a 7 billion player game, and the accidental impact of other people\u2019s actions can be more consequential than your own."
— Morgan Housel (@morganhousel) March 14, 2018

I’ve always felt that the luckiest people I know had a talent for recognizing circumstances, not of their own making, that were conducive to a favorable outcome and their ability to quickly take advantage of them.

In other words, dumb luck was just that, it required no awareness on the person’s part, whereas “smart” luck involved awareness followed by action before the circumstances changed.

So, was I “lucky” to be born when I was—nothing I had any control over—and that I came of age just as huge databases and computers were advancing to the point where I could use those tools to write “What Works on Wall Street?” Absolutely.

Was I lucky to start my stock market investments near the peak of interest rates which allowed me to spend the majority of my adult life in a falling rate environment? Yup.

Emma Hilton
@FondOfBeetles

This is Kuinini ‘Nini’ Manumua, the woman who was ultimately displaced by inclusion of Laurel Hubbard.

She’s 21, and it would have been her first Olympics.

Vibhu Vashisth
@VIBHU_Tweet

THE UNTOLD TALE OF THE LESSER KNOWN WARRIORS:JOGRAJ GURJAR & RAMPYARI GURJAR AND HOW DID THEY DEFEAT THE CRUELEST ISLAMIC INVADER, TIMUR LANG.

Timur Lang, was the founder of Timurid Empire. He was born in April 1336 CE, somewhere in central asia.

During his reign, he conquered Persia, Egypt, Central Asia and emerged as the most powerful and heinous ruler. He was a religious fanatic like the rest of the Islamic invaders who tried to invade India.

Timur Lang decided to invade India in 1398 as he heard about India's splendid wealth and had a desire to conquer India which his ancestor Genghis Khan couldn't do.

After Firoz Shah's demise in1388, Delhi Sultanate was in a state of political turmoil.During this time, Timur sent his grandson Pir Mohammad to attack Indian front. He invaded Multan&was able to defeat Iqbal Khan's brother but when he met with resistance,he asked help from Timur.

Iqbal Khan secured his hold on Delhi under Muhammad Tughluq after Firoz Shah died.
Timur provided the required back-up to his grandson with 100000 men approx. Timur sacked and plundered all the cities coming in his way &later in October 1398 reunited with his grandson.

Angela Jamison
@AnJamison

@LancPAExaminer @buzz\_chronicles @buzz\\\_chronicles @buzz_chronicles save as category @pdfmakerapp grab @pdfmakerapp grab this @readwiseio save @readwiseio save thread @threader compile summarize @Threadreaderapp unroll please @ttttreads unroll @unrollthread.com @SaveToBookmarks

The Secret CFO
@SecretCFO

If you are the CEO or CFO at a business who banks with SVB; here are some things you CAN do over the weekend

1. Build a 4 week rolling daily receipts and payments style cashflow forecast.

2. Gear up finance team to actualize & reforecast every AM by 10am

3. Schedule a Daily Cash Management Crisis call for 10am every day. CEO to chair

4. Redirect any future cash receipts / revenue into non SVB accounts. Don’t throw fresh money on the fire.

5. If SVB is your only current bank. Open accounts with 2 other AA or A rated banks.

6. Go supplier by supplier and grade them a, b or c
a - showstoppers
b - pay if you can
c - don’t pay

You want as few a’s as possible, ideally none.

7. Find out how to get your $250k FDIC cash.

8. If you are able to pull any deposits or bonds back into a non SVB account. Do it. Put hands on any liquid you can.

9. Communicate a salary deferral plan with your top team. CEO takes the most pain $ and %. Important signal.

10. Elevate sign off of all new POs to CEO and CFO jointly. Don’t sign any off.

11. Make a list of ‘survival headcount’. The bare minimum on which the business can operate.

You may need this to prioritize payroll later.

This was a deck that I created on my (longish) interview process with @a16z. It was a long path, starting with meeting folks at the firm 10 years ago. But the purpose of the deck was to explain how I would use my superpower in an investing context

Here's what I explain in the deck. As investors (whether angel or VC) we're often confronted with an up-and-to-the-right graph. Is it going to go up? Or down?

One solution to forecast these growth curves is the Growth Accounting Framework, where you add up New+Reactivated and subtract churned users. In each time period that gives you the difference in monthly actives.

The problem with this is that it's a lagging metric, not a leading one. We need to go one level deeper and look at the underlying loops that drive these numbers, to understand the quality.

$Liz (Welsh) Beechinor \U0001f605$

Liz (Welsh) Beechinor ...
@LizTweetsTech

My dad led an organization of over 300,000 employees.

When I took on my biggest marketing & events team to date (35 employees) I asked him how the *heck* he did it. Here's what he said and what helped me every day. 🧵

Remember you're leading all the employees under you, but you're not *managing* them all. You're managing your direct reports, which should be 5-7 individuals max. Focus on them.

When you interact with the employees you don't manage directly, get to know them as people first, that'll be the most valuable information in leading them. Remembering everything you learn about them is hard, but doing so will make you a superhero.

If you're not going to empower the managers under you, why do you have them? If you see room for improvement, let the manager know and let them make the change on their teams and come to you with questions/concerns. This will save you SO much time.

If you're the smartest person in any room - you're doing it wrong. As a leader, your job is bringing together the best people to get the job done - your skillset is identifying those people, not being one of them.

Christina Warren
@film_girl

A brief thread on Jovan Hutton Pulitzer, the crazy con man who is now claiming to have hacked into the Georgia voting machines in Fulton County. 90s kids and tech aficionados might remember Jovan as the inventor of the CueCat, the dumbest gadget of all time.

Also, for anyone who wants to claim that Jovan Hutton Pulitzer (not his given name, but one he changed legally after the CueCat debacle) invented QR Codes: he did not. Like that other right-wing crazy man who claimed to have invented email, Jovan didn’t invent QR Codes.

He did invent the CueCat, a product that somehow raised $185 million dollars for a tethered barcode scanner for magazines and newspapers, so you could get ads from your ads. As I said, the dumbest product of all time. Good backup barcode scanners after they were hacked, however

Oh, that’s another thing. When CueCat was a thing, its systems were hacked. I guess that’s what makes Jovan a security expert. His bankrupt company from 20 years ago was hacked and widely mocked. He’s a genius.

In recent years, Jovan pivoted to being a treasure hunter who was featured on and widely mocked on Curse of Oak Island, because the man is insane.

Rich Weinstein
@phillyrich1

For a few weeks I’ve been wondering about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and just how she emerged as a politico. Her path to Washington is shocking, at the very least. My first question was: What were her campaign positions BEFORE she became a national figure?

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So I went to her campaign website and took that web address and looked through the internet archive. When I went back to 2017, it was not her website, it belonged to the group "Brand New Congress."

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Here's what the web address https://t.co/Uhz2q4Dpll looks like now:

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Here's what the same web address looked like in late 2017:

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What's “Brand New Congress?” BNC is a group of Bernie Sanders staffers who got together, decided to make the 2018 midterms all about Bernie policies by taking his ideas & finding 400 Bernie carbon copies to dump into Congressional & other races, creating a 400 headed Bernie.

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$\u092c\u094d\u0930\u093e\u0939\u094d\u092e\u0923\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u093e \u0907\u0924\u093f\u0939\u093e\u0938\U0001f441\ufe0f\U0001f441\ufe0f$

ब्राह्मणों का इतिहास👁️...
@BRAHMIN_0052

MOHIYAL_BRAHMIN_KING
RAJA_PORUS
King_Porus_History

1)King Porus was a famous Indian king, his real name was #Purushotama. He belonged to PURU tribe mentioned in #RIG_VEDA, the Ancient books of India.

2) Porus ruled the Punjab region and expanded his kingdom between the Jhelum River and Chenab River in the Indian Subcontinent. He was a legendary warrior and more war skills. He made the army most powerful with war skills. Even Alexander had also made difficulty to defeat Porus.

3)Word of Mouth Oral tradition in #Mohyal_Brahmin families since ancient times has kept the Great Saga of their Great Elder known to them as Maharaja “ #Puru” alive.

4) When #Alexander the Great invaded India in 326 BC he was challenged near Taxila by a mere chieftain of the Area. He was King #Porus, a #Vaid_Mohyal. After his encounter with Porus, Alexander met with more resistance near Multan where the forces were predominantly #Mohyal.

5)The Bali rulers of Multan fiercely engaged with Alexander's army in skirmishes in which many senior Generals died. Later during the long and bitter fighting in #Multan, Alexander got hurt by an arrow which pierced his chest ,

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Here are 10 no-code tools every startup should know in 2022 🧵: