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One of the most unique new startups from Y Combinator this year is Yenmo, the company building better financial solutions for India!
Meet co-founder Ashutosh-- in just 60 seconds!
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No matter how bad you feel about yourself, at least you didn't spend $7,000 for an Alpha Male Bootcamp just to be screamed at in an office parking lot
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The 5 best podcast episodes I’ve come across this month:
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This is what $0 gets you from a San Francisco grocery store in 2024
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@KobeissiLetter
Walgreens and CVS have had "just walk out" policies in San Francisco for years
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Toptal threatened to sue us for saying: “There are Toptal alternatives that costs less” in a blog post.
Here’s how it went down:
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BlackRock and Vanguard fighting over the last 3 bedroom middle class home in America
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There’s much to learn from podcasts.
But only if you listen to the right ones!
Here are My Top 10 Podcast Episodes from June 2022:
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Tech sales people getting ready to send a single cold email
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Fast food customers enjoying a $59 burger and $32 soda from Wendy's surge pricing
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Lyft shareholders for the 5 minutes before the typo in the earnings release was corrected
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"Grandpa, what was it like when Ubers cost $5 and a Chipotle burrito was only $7?"
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Him: Bought $10 in meme coins last month
Her: Runs an AI startup with $0 in revenue
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For it's first 3 years of operations, Amazon only sold books!
What do we learn from this?
Startups are better off narrowing their focus.
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“A genuine intention to solve a problem” is the best startup strategy you can have.
Do not lose sight of the intention behind your service, as you scale up.
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If a founder gives their pitch like this, I'm investing immediately
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Reddit moderators getting ready to put in 16 hours of free work so the CEO can get paid $193 million
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Logical fallacies can really mess you up!
It’s common to face all sorts of flawed logic in our everyday lives.
I find, that by studying them closely, you can improve your thinking & reasoning skills.
Here are 9 of the worst fallacies I’ve come across: 🧵
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Not a cell phone in sight. Just people living in the moment!
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"Bitcoin just crashed 5% in an hour. I've never seen a pullback this strong in all my years investing in crypto. The entire market could collapse at any moment"
-Jace, age 14, bought 0.00047 BTC yesterday
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My vote for Harvard's next president
She was already on the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows
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BREAKING: Boeing unveils new 737 Max airplane
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5. Optimizing workspace for productivity, focus & creativity - The Huberman Lab Podcast
On
@hubermanlab
Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. dives into increasing productivity & focus through rearranging environment, leveraging body posture & tools to help.
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Master the art of delegation.
Founders and managers can easily get trapped in the 'do it yourself' mindset. This is only going to limit your growth.
If you aim high, then learn to trust your team and delegate tasks accordingly.
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Did you know that Red Bull is NOT an energy drink company?
The multi billion dollar company is nothing but an Austrian marketing company.
Here's the story of how a Thai business owner & an Austrian marketer developed the world-renowned energy drink, Red Bull🧵
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Tried & tested steps towards building your audience:
- Launch it & share the journey
@twitter
- Find a relevant community
@ProductHunt
@Reddit
- Interact & share valuable content
- Linkbuilding - guest post on recognised blogs
- Cold outreach via email/
@LinkedIn
- Keep creating
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Beginners start-up guide:
1. Find the right problem (access quality tech talent)
2. Create solution
@CloudDevs
3. Public release
@ProductHunt
4. Build awareness - social media /marketing
@starterstory
@Bootstraprs
5. Push for feedback
@delighted
6. Optimize
Repeat steps 4-6
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@AdamSinger
Floral sales manager: "If this department can hit a 90% sell-through rate of our flowers today, each of you will earn a $1.3 million, one-off bonus"
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@sweatystartup
My dad tore the living shit out of his rotator cuff
Here’s what it taught me about B2B sales 🧵
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San Francisco police as a shoplifter leaves the store with merchandise they didn't pay for
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The best marketing strategy for startups is to stay consistent.
Whether you're interacting with your audience via Twitter, using link building and SEO, or simply focussing on customer satisfaction & getting those referrals, whatever your focus is, STAY CONSISTENT.
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Wendy's cashiers after selling a burger for $150 to a single mom in a rush to pick up her kids
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20 years ago: "I bet we'll have flying cars in the future!"
The future:
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I saw a chart by
@BrettFromDJ
on his startup Designjoy’s progress curve & it inspired me to write a piece on Startup J Curves - The non-linear path to their success!
Startups go through 6 crucial steps in their path to success!
Let’s have a look at the breakdown. 🧵
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2. How to get rich building boring businesses with Codie Sanchez - The Room Where It Happens
@_trwih
@gregisenberg
&
@SahilBloom
talks to the founder of Contrarian Thinking
@Codie_Sanchez
talking about her journey of buying & selling over 60 businesses
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Get your startup idea validated ASAP so that you can actually start building it.
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"Grandpa, what was it like when Uber rides were $4 and DoorDash meals only cost $12?"
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The government just cancelled $1.2 billion of student loans
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If you don’t have the confidence to launch your startup, just remember the Fyre Fest guy was convicted of fraud and is re-launching the same business
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@RobertMSterling
The same logic holds across various sectors. It's high time we pivot from obsessing over immediate gains for shareholders to focusing on crafting value that stands the test of time.
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1. Bootstrapping a small agency into a billion $ business empire - My First Million
@myfirstmilpod
@ShaanVP
&
@thesamparr
talk about the pros & cons of starting an agency & hash out hiring & delegating processes with Andrew Wilkinson (
@awilkinson
).
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"Why don't people want to come to the office? The commute isn't that bad"
The commute:
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Every company has 1 guy like this and 30 other people who do nothing
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"Can you hop on a quick 5 minute call?"
The call:
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I don’t want to work from the office, and I don’t want to work from home
I want to work from the Comfort Inn Business Center
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Hiring tech talent is no easy game.
A lot of my clients who are bootstrapped founders from non-technical backgrounds, have approached me with projects ruined by freelance devs they've hired via online platforms.
Lesson 1 - Do not hire non-vetted talent
Lesson 2 - Ask for help!
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There’s no marketing without copywriting.
It’s definitely a skill worth honing for all founders.
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With another year drawing to a close, I’ve been taking stock of all the Twitter accounts I value for their enriching and insightful content.
Here’s my list of top contenders in no particular order:
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(Highly recommend you follow them if you aren’t already doing so!)
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Retail investors buying Bitcoin at $70k after passing up the chance to buy at $21k a year ago
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We hit $1 million in sales the first year, and we’re on track to hit $2 million in our second. Follow us on our journey !
Al Caan had already left a lucrative job in finance to give bootstrapping a chance once before.
That startup failed.
While most would give up, Al knew that his next idea was a homerun.
Here's his story... 🧵
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@RobertMSterling
A generous billionaire just offered to donate $500 million towards the cost of the new bridge
This project is going to move along quickly!
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Documentaries can be eye-opening.
But only if you watch the right ones!
Here are my top 10 must-watch documentaries for founders: 🧵
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4. Meta, FB, Insta & the Metaverse with Mark Zuckerberg - Lex Fridman Podcast
On this episode Mark
@finkd
& Lex
@lexfridman
go deep into discussing the Metaverse, security, censorship & the meaning of life among much more.
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Private equity partners after laying off 5,000 people at a portfolio company over email
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@Cokedupoptions
Personally, I was too mesmerized by their beauty to think rationally
I mean, just look at those gorgeous eyes
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Learn to adapt to uncertainty.
It's one of the greatest skills you can cultivate, both for your startup journey & life!
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I don't agree with David's views (nor should anyone have to), but attacking his portfolio companies and LPs is borderline cancel culture.
Different opinions are normal; disagreement doesn't justify targeting someone's professional relationships.
Here’s a pretty outrageous example. I’m confident that our portfolio companies believe we are helpful, so PG is just making things up. Clearly some of the vitriol is related to my politics.
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@brandontrusso
The federal government just approved a $300 million infrastructure package to clean up this mess
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If you constantly scan Twitter for high-value content with real substance, there are a few people here you shouldn’t miss.
Here are my top 5 account suggestions for the week:
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The plan? Get a corporate attorney to fall in love with you, move in with her, and then listen in on her work calls to get insider information
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"Can you hop on a quick 5 minute call?"
The call:
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Just saw a VC managing risk by diversifying. Amazing to watch.
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These two have big careers in enterprise software sales ahead of them
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The housing market is finally crashing
Last year, this house cost 20 Bitcoin
This year, it only costs 5 Bitcoin
That's a 75% crash in value. Buckle up.
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Paul Graham: How to Do Great Work
8 steps to get you on the path to greatness
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Nassim Taleb’s
@nntaleb
work on Antifragile is in my opinion, ground-breaking.
Whether you use it as a life philosophy or as the backbone of the organization you’re building, there’s so much you can take away from it.
Here are my most valued takeaways from the book:🧵
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Cold DMers on LinkedIn making their sales pitch
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@anothercohen
And imagine still having to pay the $250 Airbnb cleaning fee for your one night stay
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Take the hint.
Learn to pivot your startup if the market calls for it.
Don't keep fighting for your brilliant idea if you can't get anyone from your audience to validate it.
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I just learned how Alex Soros became a billionaire by age 38:
- Cold showers each morning at 3am
- Journaled his goals every day
- Stands to inherit $6 billion from his dad, George Soros
George Soros heir, Alex Soros, delivers breathless temper tantrum about Trump in front of Davos elite:
"One man, Donald Trump, literally came in and just took that, took that, took that all away. Ehm, you know so, ehm, you know so, ehm, you know."
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