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.↗

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.↗

How I automate my life, including these money rules On my Instagram story right now https://t.co/qzd8KdZ7ef↗

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:↗

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…↗

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↗

Favorite takeaways & quotes from Chris Dixon interviews👇 "What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in 10 yrs" "If you want to bet against that...you're betting against a lot of smart people...I'll take the other side of that…↗

8. The future of education does not look like you think it does. It looks like Y-Combinator. Here’s why: • Respected credential • Teams of peers and mentors • Participants learn by doing • Attracts a global pool of talent • The organization competes for top talent.↗

Before landing on the Tailwind UI preview experience you currently see when you go to the site, we almost took a more traditional marketing site approach. We still think the current direction is better but it felt like a shame to not show off this site I spent 2 days designing �…↗

We launched subscriptions for @Ghost at the end of last year and a fun side effect is that it's actually really amazing for just starting *any* recurring revenue business. Created and shipped a brand new SaaS product in 4 hours using it: https://t.co/cQystQ5ZEv↗

There are countless startup book lists on the internet 🌐 I wanted to know what were the most recommended startup books ever 🏆 So I've compiled more than 4000 recommendations from 208 lists and came up with with this top 25 most recommended startup books of all-time📕 THREAD↗

1/ I've been recently asked by many why we hired 4 senior execs in 6 months at @MorningBrew (after having none for the last 2 years) and what what we learned. After a bunch of convos in DMs, I thought I'd share with everyone. Thread 👇↗

Who's building Thumbtack for SaaS? G2 Crowd - discover, compare & buy software ?? - hire certified SaaS implementation pros Things I'm looking for: - # of successful implementations - hourly rate - ratings, reviews & case studies - recommended by the vendor, friends, …↗

Here's a similar company that focuses just on Ireland and the UK. https://t.co/x0hUsshMBi↗