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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So the cryptocurrency industry has basically two products, one which is relatively benign and doesn't have product market fit, and one which is malignant and does. The industry has a weird superposition of understanding this fact and (strategically?) not understanding it.
The benign product is sovereign programmable money, which is historically a niche interest of folks with a relatively clustered set of beliefs about the state, the literary merit of Snow Crash, and the utility of gold to the modern economy.
This product has narrow appeal and, accordingly, is worth about as much as everything else on a 486 sitting in someone's basement is worth.
The other product is investment scams, which have approximately the best product market fit of anything produced by humans. In no age, in no country, in no city, at no level of sophistication do people consistently say "Actually I would prefer not to get money for nothing."
This product needs the exchanges like they need oxygen, because the value of it is directly tied to having payment rails to move real currency into the ecosystem and some jurisdictional and regulatory legerdemain to stay one step ahead of the banhammer.
If everyone was holding bitcoin on the old x86 in their parents basement, we would be finding a price bottom. The problem is the risk is all pooled at a few brokerages and a network of rotten exchanges with counter party risk that makes AIG circa 2008 look like a good credit.
— Greg Wester (@gwestr) November 25, 2018
The benign product is sovereign programmable money, which is historically a niche interest of folks with a relatively clustered set of beliefs about the state, the literary merit of Snow Crash, and the utility of gold to the modern economy.
This product has narrow appeal and, accordingly, is worth about as much as everything else on a 486 sitting in someone's basement is worth.
The other product is investment scams, which have approximately the best product market fit of anything produced by humans. In no age, in no country, in no city, at no level of sophistication do people consistently say "Actually I would prefer not to get money for nothing."
This product needs the exchanges like they need oxygen, because the value of it is directly tied to having payment rails to move real currency into the ecosystem and some jurisdictional and regulatory legerdemain to stay one step ahead of the banhammer.
“We don’t negotiate salaries” is a negotiation tactic.
Always. No, your company is not an exception.
A tactic I don’t appreciate at all because of how unfairly it penalizes low-leverage, junior employees, and those loyal enough not to question it, but that’s negotiation for you after all. Weaponized information asymmetry.
Listen to Aditya
And by the way, you should never be worried that an offer would be withdrawn if you politely negotiate.
I have seen this happen *extremely* rarely, mostly to women, and anyway is a giant red flag. It suggests you probably didn’t want to work there.
You wish there was no negotiating so it would all be more fair? I feel you, but it’s not happening.
Instead, negotiate hard, use your privilege, and then go and share numbers with your underrepresented and underpaid colleagues. […]
Always. No, your company is not an exception.
A tactic I don’t appreciate at all because of how unfairly it penalizes low-leverage, junior employees, and those loyal enough not to question it, but that’s negotiation for you after all. Weaponized information asymmetry.
Listen to Aditya
"we don't negotiate salaries" really means "we'd prefer to negotiate massive signing bonuses and equity grants, but we'll negotiate salary if you REALLY insist" https://t.co/80k7nWAMoK
— Aditya Mukerjee, the Otterrific \U0001f3f3\ufe0f\u200d\U0001f308 (@chimeracoder) December 4, 2018
And by the way, you should never be worried that an offer would be withdrawn if you politely negotiate.
I have seen this happen *extremely* rarely, mostly to women, and anyway is a giant red flag. It suggests you probably didn’t want to work there.
You wish there was no negotiating so it would all be more fair? I feel you, but it’s not happening.
Instead, negotiate hard, use your privilege, and then go and share numbers with your underrepresented and underpaid colleagues. […]