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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**Thread on Bravery of Sikhs**
(I am forced to do this due to continuous hounding of Sikh Extremists since yesterday)

Rani Jindan Kaur, wife of Maharaja Ranjit Singh had illegitimate relations with Lal Singh (PM of Ranjit Singh). Along with Lal Singh, she attacked Jammu, burnt - https://t.co/EfjAq59AyI


Hindu villages of Jasrota, caused rebellion in Jammu, attacked Kishtwar.

Ancestors of Raja Ranjit Singh, The Sansi Tribe used to give daughters as concubines to Jahangir.


The Ludhiana Political Agency (Later NW Fronties Prov) was formed by less than 4000 British soldiers who advanced from Delhi and reached Ludhiana, receiving submissions of all sikh chiefs along the way. The submission of the troops of Raja of Lahore (Ranjit Singh) at Ambala.

Dabistan a contemporary book on Sikh History tells us that Guru Hargobind broke Naina devi Idol Same source describes Guru Hargobind serving a eunuch
YarKhan. (ref was proudly shared by a sikh on twitter)
Gobind Singh followed Bahadur Shah to Deccan to fight for him.


In Zafarnama, Guru Gobind Singh states that the reason he was in conflict with the Hill Rajas was that while they were worshiping idols, while he was an idol-breaker.

And idiot Hindus place him along Maharana, Prithviraj and Shivaji as saviours of Dharma.