How To Be Successful (At Your Career, Twitter Edition)
2000 customers @ $39/month is almost $1M/year. - You don't need to dominate the market. - You don't need to disrupt anything. - You don't need to conquer the competition. You can add 1 new customer/day & before you know it, you'll have a $1M/yr machine. Wouldn't that be en…
Going fully remote was nice, but the real benefit was in going fully asynchronous. Here are a list of the benefits we've seen at @Gumroad: A thread 👇🏽
Marketing lessons learned over more than a decade growing startups (thread): Great marketing emanates from a great product. If the product sucks no amount of world class marketing can redeem it. Marketing can help make a good product great––it will never make a bad product good.
How to write a landing page title:
The first thing founders should do when they think they're ready to fundraise is lock down the narrative of their startup.
The credential is the last element to be unbundled from college: - education (MOOCs) - networks (accelerators) - credentials (stay tuned) My bet: P2P credentials If I trust you & you say X is the best young person you've worked with, that means more to me than a Harvard d…
A few 2020 remote work predictions combined with free startup ideas: 📺 Multiple teams will innovate on videocalls Startup Idea: Rethink video clients without "BIG FACES IN A BOX" Different calls need different optimized experiences (eg Townhall vs 1on1 vs small team call)
I often get introduced to people looking to make the jump into startups and Silicon Valley. This is the reading list I send them. It’s meant to be a primer for many of the popular concepts and jargon you will hear working at a startup. https://t.co/TSqTUtULlD
How Airbnb, DoorDash, Uber, Instacart and Caviar onboarded new supply (Thread) Airbnb: “For every new listing we brought onboard, we went through a 12-point checklist (e.g. number of pictures, length of title, etc), so that every listing that went live had a minimum standard..."
Online education is taking off. But the courses on the future will look nothing like the courses of today. The best ones will be: • Active, not passive. • Communal, not solo. • Responsive, not static. • Live, not recorded. It’s happening. Education is finally improving.
Workday’s revenue per customer: 2012: $476k subscription/ $208k services 400 customers 2017: $851k subscription/ $169k services 2,100 customers Per customer subscription revenue grew 80% & services declined 20% as customer count grew 5x. Services early to drive subscript…
A friend is selling their niche, profitable SW business - $1.5M rev / $500K net income. Are there any PE buyers at this nano-scale?
What are some of your favorite personal productivity hacks? ie: color-coded calendars, no meeting days, etc.
1/ One of the biggest misconceptions I see from first-time founders is what multiples they could sell their company for. So, let's talk about that a bit, in an effort to downplay the notion that you'll get filthy rich from your company.
Retweeted for endorsement. It's so effective it feels like cheating.
Is 300% YoY growth 3x or 4x? I GET SO CONFUSED b/c 100% YoY growth is definitely 2x
1/ This series by @wistia is one of the most interesting and effective pieces of media I’ve seen in some time. They hired video agency @sandwich to make 3 versions of the same video introducing their new product Soapbox: with budgets of $1k, $10k, & $100k https://t.co/AXFPaI…
"I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read. My principle in researching is "Read like a butterfly, write like a bee", and if this story contains any honey, it is entirely because of the quality of the nectar I found in the work of better writers." — Philip Pullman ✨
If there's any software that's worth the money, it's https://t.co/4iFDzZ67Ox. At Starter Story we use the API to generate hundreds of automated designs a day and share them across IG, Twitter, FB, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and for social sharing images. Incredibly powerful.
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