How To Be Successful (At Your Career, Twitter Edition)
I’m biased but @udemy is a true underdog story + thought I’d share details we’ve never shared before. ICYMI, we announced a $50M raise at $2B valuation. Udemy almost died at least 5x. We got rejected by everyone in the Valley. Startups are never a straight line. *Read on*
Education is broken. Here is what the future of education will look like: 1. Teaching will become an extremely lucrative profession. Salaries will follow a power law. The best teachers will make millions of dollars per year and teach thousands of students per year.
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…
If you’re a programmer, you can: - Make SaaS products - Write eBooks - Make apps - Create video courses - Do freelancing - Give live training - Do paid support - Publish a paid newsletter If you accumulate $325/day from doing many of these at the same time, you’ll make $10K/mo.
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 I automate my life, including these money rules On my Instagram story right now https://t.co/qzd8KdZ7ef
Let’s face it, our education system is obsolete. It’s outdated. It’s outrageous. It’s broken. New and bold alternatives are already being tested out there. My bet? Online education will have a groundbreaking impact in the way future generations learn. Here's why👇
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1/ The amount of great content coming out these days for founders, managers, and employees is incredible. Tons of 10+ and even 100+ page detailed tactical manuals, interactive guides, curated content databases, you name it. A few notable examples:
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…
Dear lazyweb, Reddit in its early days famously had fake users posting content to make it seem like there was more activity than there really was - as a means of solving the chicken and egg problem in building a network Know if any other examples like this?
Founders: what's in your pitch deck? Here are my must-haves: ✨Vision 💵Market size ☹️Problem 😊Solution 🏰Competition/differentiation moat 📝Go-to-market/business model 📈Traction/financials 🗺Roadmap/milestones to achieve 👛Fundraise/use of funds 👩🏽🎤Team/advisors/invest…
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
Schools are closing. Thousands of teachers will be teaching online for the first time in their lives, and students deserve to keep learning. Here’s my advice to teachers. 1. Bring extra energy: You need extra energy when you’re teaching online. Turn up your energy by 50%.
Unbundling the university: - liberal arts - technical education - summer camp - dating market - sports - co-living - salons - hedge fund - 4 year vacation - flirting w/ marxism - coming of age - alumni network - credential - prestige - insurance policy - identity - coming of age
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…
Schools are moving online. Here are 10 ways online education is better than the traditional model, especially for kids. 1. Ship Fast, Ship Often: Traditional school is too passive. Students learn best when they make things. The more students create, the faster they’ll learn.
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