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
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:
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
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
https://t.co/BTqBC5zn5S
She also has great threads about
• customer acquisition https://t.co/ibDi3LxVi7
• PMF https://t.co/2kKZEJSN3P
Today I want to talk about the legal aspects of startups. How to set up? How to think about legal costs?
— Elizabeth Yin (@dunkhippo33) March 2, 2021
Fun!
Read on >>
@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
I\u2019ve help build internet communities that have generated hundreds of millions of members
— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) May 8, 2021
The most often question I get asked is:
But Greg - how do I build a community from scratch?!
Here's what I usually say:
I wrote a thread about my mistakes in hiring that resonated a lot with my following https://t.co/OVqzU7KpmZ
I hired 32 people and fired 10 of them.
— Aleksandr Volodarsky (@volodarik) March 6, 2021
We are growing like crazy, but I made every mistake in the book.
*Non-obvious* lessons from early hires\U0001f447
https://t.co/r6IkcxId3Q
1/ Let's talk about fundraising: In 2009, Y Combinator only gave us $15K, half our YC batch died after demo day, 11 firms told us no, 2 firms wanted to find us a CEO, 1 VC told me, point blank, we would fail, we were a week away from death but luckily raised $500K @ 2M pre.
— Suhail (@Suhail) May 16, 2018
Here is @Julian take on beautiful writing
https://t.co/iv8tJFxMTB
Follow Julian for everything marketing.
How can some people write so beautifully?
— Julian Shapiro (@Julian) February 18, 2021
I think I've figured it out.
THREAD: The four elements of writing style:
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
Good copywriting is a superpower.
— Alex Garcia \U0001f50d (@alexgarcia_atx) July 18, 2021
Amazon, the second most valuable brand in the world, puts an emphasis on teaching its employees how to write.
They know good copy equates to more customers.
These are the 8 tips to write like an Amazonian \U0001f9f5
https://t.co/YX4KxGJKtu
How to make 30% more revenue without dropping a single penny on paid ads
— Chase Dimond | Email Marketing Nerd \U0001f4e7 (@ecomchasedimond) April 2, 2021
From an email marketer who has generated over $50 Million dollars in sales for dozens of 6 to 9 figure Ecommerce brands.
Bookmark this \U0001f4b0\U0001f4b0\U0001f4b0 Thread
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The best of his articles are on his fund's blog
https://t.co/Cjc4Ux3yFh
His most popular tweets:
https://t.co/4IVzr7fADF
His tweets are underrated, but most of them are pure gold.
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
This is a story about how I lost $10,000,000 by doing something stupid.
— Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson) March 30, 2021
Ten. Million. Dollars.
Literally up in smoke. Money bonfire.
That\u2019s enough to retire with $250,000+ in annual income.
Here\u2019s what happened\u2026
https://t.co/zue0KtMUK9
We spent $3,300,000 buying out our main VC investors.
— Buffer (@buffer) September 21, 2018
Here\u2019s a quick summary \U0001f447
https://t.co/qN86Y7gqUP
A ton of startup investors gave me permission to share their contact details in this thread.
— Julian Shapiro (@Julian) July 25, 2021
The venture capitalists below said you're welcome to DM/email them your pitch decks!
They look forward to it.
Hopefully this helps with fundraising:
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1/“What would need to be true for you to….X”
Why is this the most powerful question you can ask when attempting to reach an agreement with another human being or organization?
A thread, co-written by @deanmbrody:
2/ First, “X” could be lots of things. Examples: What would need to be true for you to
- “Feel it's in our best interest for me to be CMO"
- “Feel that we’re in a good place as a company”
- “Feel that we’re on the same page”
- “Feel that we both got what we wanted from this deal
3/ Normally, we aren’t that direct. Example from startup/VC land:
Founders leave VC meetings thinking that every VC will invest, but they rarely do.
Worse over, the founders don’t know what they need to do in order to be fundable.
4/ So why should you ask the magic Q?
To get clarity.
You want to know where you stand, and what it takes to get what you want in a way that also gets them what they want.
It also holds them (mentally) accountable once the thing they need becomes true.
5/ Staying in the context of soliciting investors, the question is “what would need to be true for you to want to invest (or partner with us on this journey, etc)?”
Multiple responses to this question are likely to deliver a positive result.
Why is this the most powerful question you can ask when attempting to reach an agreement with another human being or organization?
A thread, co-written by @deanmbrody:
Next level tactic when closing a sale, candidate, or investment:
— Erik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg) February 27, 2018
Ask: \u201cWhat needs to be true for you to be all in?\u201d
You'll usually get an explicit answer that you might not get otherwise. It also holds them accountable once the thing they need becomes true.
2/ First, “X” could be lots of things. Examples: What would need to be true for you to
- “Feel it's in our best interest for me to be CMO"
- “Feel that we’re in a good place as a company”
- “Feel that we’re on the same page”
- “Feel that we both got what we wanted from this deal
3/ Normally, we aren’t that direct. Example from startup/VC land:
Founders leave VC meetings thinking that every VC will invest, but they rarely do.
Worse over, the founders don’t know what they need to do in order to be fundable.
4/ So why should you ask the magic Q?
To get clarity.
You want to know where you stand, and what it takes to get what you want in a way that also gets them what they want.
It also holds them (mentally) accountable once the thing they need becomes true.
5/ Staying in the context of soliciting investors, the question is “what would need to be true for you to want to invest (or partner with us on this journey, etc)?”
Multiple responses to this question are likely to deliver a positive result.
BREAKING: @CommonsCMS @DamianCollins just released previously sealed #Six4Three @Facebook documents:
Some random interesting tidbits:
1) Zuck approves shutting down platform API access for Twitter's when Vine is released #competition
2) Facebook engineered ways to access user's call history w/o alerting users:
Team considered access to call history considered 'high PR risk' but 'growth team will charge ahead'. @Facebook created upgrade path to access data w/o subjecting users to Android permissions dialogue.
3) The above also confirms @kashhill and other's suspicion that call history was used to improve PYMK (People You May Know) suggestions and newsfeed rankings.
4) Docs also shed more light into @dseetharaman's story on @Facebook monitoring users' @Onavo VPN activity to determine what competitors to mimic or acquire in 2013.
https://t.co/PwiRIL3v9x
Some random interesting tidbits:
1) Zuck approves shutting down platform API access for Twitter's when Vine is released #competition
2) Facebook engineered ways to access user's call history w/o alerting users:
Team considered access to call history considered 'high PR risk' but 'growth team will charge ahead'. @Facebook created upgrade path to access data w/o subjecting users to Android permissions dialogue.
3) The above also confirms @kashhill and other's suspicion that call history was used to improve PYMK (People You May Know) suggestions and newsfeed rankings.
4) Docs also shed more light into @dseetharaman's story on @Facebook monitoring users' @Onavo VPN activity to determine what competitors to mimic or acquire in 2013.
https://t.co/PwiRIL3v9x
