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Founder/Go-to-Market Fit: If primary GTM is bottom-up, founder needs to be great at product. If primary GTM is inbound, founder needs to be great at marketing. If primary GTM is outbound, founder needs to be great at sales.↗

BTC, ETH, BNB, DOGE: The Top Four Coins Represent The 4 Distinct Crypto ‘Paths’ to Value…↗

·@lessin·May 4, 2021·essay·bnb·btc·crypto·doge

Warren Buffett is a treasure trove of wisdom. But contrary to what you have been told, most of it has nothing to do with investing. 10 powerful lessons for life from the Oracle of Omaha:↗

Founder 1: Runs startup for five years. Sells for ~$100M. Makes $30M. Founder 2: Running startup for ten years (and counting). Valued at ~$1B. Founder shares valued at $30M. Which founder would you rather be? /🧵↗

It’s a lot easier to AVOID things that make you miserable than to predict what will make you happy. There’s an incredible @Harvard Study from 1938 that sheds light on just how to avoid a miserable life. In 2013, reading it caused me to quit drinking and changed my life...↗

Over the last 12 months, my tweets on remote work have had 80,000,000+ impressions Here are my learnings, predictions & advice [ a thread ] 💻🏠🌍↗

·@chris_herd·Apr 18, 2021·essay·advice·predictions·remote-work

This is my first time doing a course run out of @NotionHQ. It is really well suited to this kind of thing. The level of organization you can control, nested pages/card, and backlink references all make for a pretty awesome no-code course platform.↗

Want to master business writing? You should. Top business ppl like Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Sherly Sandberg have mastered the art of business writing. One Bezos shareholder letter and you'll notice it. It can be taught. Give me 5 min 🧵↗

1/ The first 18 months of a startup: After starting my 2nd company in 2019, I decided I would write down useful lessons I learned or re-learned along the way. Some were hard-earned & others required steady focus. A thread that I hope may help other founders starting out 👇↗

What do Airbnb, Facebook, Spotify, Hubspot, and Slack all have in common? They all have a North Star Metric that influences their long-term growth. This means the one metric that all business units focus on. Here's the breakdown 🧵↗

1) How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Punks: If this comes across your timeline you likely believe that in the future the world will grow more digitized and decentralized. If not I doubt a guy who values MS Paints at over $13,000 per pixel will convince you otherwise.↗

1/ Here's what's happening in the online education market broadly, and cohort-based courses specifically: We're leaving the early stage of solo creators managing everything from audience growth to marketing/sales to creating the content to teaching all by themselves↗

Everyone wants to decouple time from money. The problem? It's an extremely unpredictable way to make a living. For every successful creator, there are thousands who make nothing or almost nothing. So, how do you make the unpredictable, predictable? Here's what I learned:↗