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Newsletter milestone: 2️⃣5️⃣0️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣💥 Some stats and learnings from my newsletter'ing journey so far:↗

·@lennysan·Oct 15, 2022·news·growth·milestone·newsletter

Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney paid $2.5 million for the world's third-oldest football club. But the team is in the 5th division of the English football pyramid and has almost no chance of making it to the Premier League. Still, it was a genius move. Here's why 👇↗

Google’s #ImagenVideo has launched the Space Race of text-to-video (T2V) models. UNICORN startup opportunities to build upon T2V🧵↗

·@katieruthmishra·Oct 6, 2022·essay·ai·imagenvideo·startups·t2v

thread on my process of getting GPT-3 to write a script to integrate #stablediffusion into google sheets, unlocking a function "stable()" that lets you gen images in sheets GPT3 had already written an integration for itself for sheets, so I figured this should be doable, too↗

I'd never raised venture capital before, only bootstrapped my companies. Yesterday, I closed a $3.5M seed round led by Nextview Ventures and Sugar Capital for Kahani. The process was enlightening, humbling and exciting all at once. Here's how I did it and what I learned:↗

At Tiny, I've hired CEOs for 60+ companies and interviewed hundreds of others. After over a decade of trial and error (and I mean BIG errors), here’s our hiring process:↗

·@awilkinson·Sep 29, 2022·essay·hiring·leadership·recruitment·startup

...of course there are more users of stable diffusion via DreamStudio making more images than DALL-E 2 per their latest update, leaving aside the API etc, so let the games begin 😆↗

"Prompt Explorer" - a GPT-3 powered google sheet that lets you explore the "narrative neighbourhood" of any prompt: eg "abandoned futuristic colony" will output detailed MJ/SD ready prompts for: 1. what's above (drone view)? 🚁 2. what's inside? 🔦 3. what's nearby? 🧭↗

I sold my first startup @teachable 2+ years ago for a life changing amount of money At the time, I was *convinced* I would not start another business for a long time. Maybe ever? Yet, two weeks ago, I decided to do it all over again Here's why 👇👇↗

When it comes to competitive moats ... Easy to copy: point in time facts; harder to copy: facts in motion; very hard to copy: second derivatives/momentum, emergent properties of complex systems, journeys.↗