BC STARTUP ARTICLES
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Most of the startup advice is horse shit. Especially when you google it.

Let's build a thread with the best startup threads and articles.

I'll start:

 1/ Fundamentals

Your startup is like a cult. You have to convert your team, investors, customers, and friends to be your evangelists.

@DavidSacks article on how to form a movement
https://t.co/SEZ3wPhK6v
2/ Growth is possible only with lazer focus.

1000 tasks fall on you every day. You have to ignore them and concentrate on improving main metrics.

@lennysan article about choosing a Northstar metric.
https://t.co/ujQEuwnDE9

in general Future by @a16z is full of great advice
3/ Legal aspects and costs in a startup by @dunkhippo33
https://t.co/BTqBC5zn5S

She also has great threads about
• customer acquisition https://t.co/ibDi3LxVi7
• PMF https://t.co/2kKZEJSN3P
4/ Community building is a new black in product discovery and customer acquisition.

@gregisenberg on how to start a community from 0
https://t.co/Nu9mjwNmcy

His article about finding startup ideas through unbundling Reddit is amazing https://t.co/KHhsdUoHjF
5/ Hiring

I wrote a thread about my mistakes in hiring that resonated a lot with my following https://t.co/OVqzU7KpmZ
6/ Thread about fundraising by @Suhail from 2018 that is still relevant
https://t.co/r6IkcxId3Q
7/ Founders need to be great at copywriting. They write emails, pitches, landing pages, product descriptions, notes to the team.

Here is @Julian take on beautiful writing
https://t.co/iv8tJFxMTB

Follow Julian for everything marketing.
8/ More on copywriting by @alexgarcia_atx
https://t.co/7M5vBiJtqU

Alex helped to grow the MFM pod we all love and his marketing thread are GOLD

Most popular:
https://t.co/oUtU08Dcq6
9/ How to get more revenue by converting non-buyers by @ecomchasedimond

https://t.co/YX4KxGJKtu
10/ @JamesCurrier is the best resource to learn about network effects. If you are building a marketplace or a social network, you should go down this rabbit hole.

The best of his articles are on his fund's blog
https://t.co/Cjc4Ux3yFh
11/ A lot of great advice and inspiration by @agazdecki

His most popular tweets:
https://t.co/4IVzr7fADF
12/ @jasonlk has spent a lot of time with the most successful founders and shared a lot of what he learned.

His tweets are underrated, but most of them are pure gold.
13/ Amazing story by @awilkinson about how he lost by bootstrapping to a VC-baked Asana.

I don't agree that you can't compete without raising money, but there is a lot to learn from that story.

https://t.co/EyaBbKJQuq
14/ Also a lot to learn from @joelgascoigne story about why and how they bought back their equity from VCs.

https://t.co/zue0KtMUK9
15/ Investors you should reach out to and what startups they are looking for

https://t.co/qN86Y7gqUP
I'll be adding more resources as I discover them.

Share the ones you love about:
• building and managing the team
• marketing
• sales
• mental health for founders

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