Social headlines make it seem cohort-based courses are in the toilet. Yet Maven’s instructors have 2x’ed their earnings in the last 12 months. What is going on? In the last year: The altMBA shut down. Building a Second Brain shut down. Write of Passage shut down. d/MBA announced…↗

I agree with everyone complaining about the CGT changes - but I also think we need to stop being whiny little bitches and just build elite companies in the UK anyway. The main thing that needs to change is our culture & mindset, not our taxation system. We need to think big, and…↗

one-shot prompting Websim to create its own tutorials 🔥↗

Buying a camera on AOL/“the Web” in the 1990s.↗

Why doesn’t the UK have more startups? Capital is fixed, technical talent is world class, tax incentives are great, visas mostly fine, university IP problems seem like they’re getting fixed. Free healthcare and social security net in the UK is a huge advantage that should make…↗

Is Low-Code / ‘No Code’ a THING in the AI age?↗

Ten Things That Matter Right Now in Seed VC…↗

A Bloomberg Terminal costs $30,000 per year. Unaffordable for 99.9% of us. Reserved for the Wall Street elite to outfox the normal investor. OpenBB just dropped the $0 cost replacement. Get 405 free data sources and an AI Copilot. The 90-second step-by-step guide:↗

Neil Patel tested 3,000 landing pages. To find the difference between high and low-converting ones. Here are the 10 elements of pages converting at 2%+ had in common:↗

Yes! Websim is fantastic for creating tools to help you learn a language, such as this simulated tutor! This is one of our favorite examples of language learning Websims - An English teacher in Brazil made this with our generated backend feature! websim.ai/@Maynard/pergu…↗

Personal software Personal computing came with a wave of mass-produced software that, ironically, was not tailored to the individual. Apps evolved to try and be everything to everyone. Take this checkpoint in the evolution of user interfaces: or Zawinski’s Law: every program a…↗

Creator economy observations as we get close to the end of the year: - Many large creators are thinking about their exit plan, most are confused on how to best execute it - VCs and investors missed the actual point of the creator economy, torching $$$ investing in companies li…↗

When To Do What You Love: paulgraham.com/when.html↗

Here are 9 interesting takeaways from a recent deep dive on data related to content we produce: 1. Approximately 50% of my audience is outside the US and in an English speaking country — truly global reach. 2. The fastest growing consumption platform is people watching YouTube…↗

The SaaS Era is Over ; Software is a Business Tool not a Business Model↗

If you're into collectables of any kind, you're probably familiar with the "Buy the seller" maxim. You usually have to trust who you're buying from before you can trust the item itself. The same thing is true when buying SaaS — especially if it's a service your business will be…↗

How to make winning Facebook image ads (short training): This a braindump from an internal static ads training I hosted today for our team - so I’m sharing it here… Rule #1 - Stop doing what everyone else is What most marketers’ statics have: ❌ Pretty design ❌ Weak (or worse,…↗

This ad is a masterclass in persuasion:↗

US Stocks +200% this year. What's your excuse?↗

Here are the stock symbols for the companies mentioned in the image: 1. Johnson Controls – JCI 2. Trane – TT 3. Carrier – CARR 4. Schneider Electric – SBGSY (OTC) or SU.PA (Paris) 5. ABB – ABB 6. Vertiv – VRT 7. Eaton – ETN 8. SPX Technologies – SPXC 9. Ebara – 6361.T (Tokyo) 10…↗

NYC's public college system paid Oracle ~$600M to build our course management portal. It's built on top of Oracle's PeopleSoft suite, which they refused to customize without an extra $400M (to hit $1B). New Yorkers got the image below and pay $5M+ / year for *hosting*.↗

A New Era of Shareware? AI is rapidly changing how software is made and, possibly, how it would be used and distributed. While history doesn't repeat it often rhymes, and since the launch of Replit Agent, I've been thinking about the Shareware scene of the 1980s. If you're not…↗

Can the @blumhouse model pioneered by @jason_blum to make insanely lucrative Hollywood movies work in tech? Yup This is the opposite of the go big or go home VC model I break it down and then highlight 14 tech startup categories where the Blumhouse model can work↗

Use these hooks in your ads to boost sales:↗

If you add the enterprise value of the top 8 outcomes in education, it barely amounts to the enterprise value of OnlyFans. Insane. 🤯↗

I retired at 32. Went from being CEO of 3 companies to 0 companies in a span of months. This is an honest experience of retirement at 32. After building several successful companies in my 20s, I decided to sell two of them and hand over the CEO role of the remaining company to…↗

100% spot on take I don't take sponsorship money personally But I sell my own stuff: - my startups sell services - I now sell merch - X pays for my shitposting Same strategy as @MrBeast with his chocolate Better to make and control what you sell, because 1) more honest, 2) yo…↗

If distribution is the new moat, where is the Y-Combinator for creating distribution, not software? I don’t think it exists. There isn’t much product risk anymore in most startups. Only distribution risk.↗

Sponsorships are broken. - As a creator, I don't want to be told what to say. - As a follower, I don't trust sponsored words (unless there's skin in the game). Greedy creators will take any sponsor for more $$$ (check @bryan_johnson's video calling out the AG1 influencers progr…↗

jack dorsey (@jack) is forever goated to run twitter (and square) thru just his notes app.↗