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You know, if you talk all the time you will never hear what anybody else has to say, and therefore all you'll have to talk about is your own conversation. The same is true for people who think all the time.
Very thankful to @kevin2kelly for the idea of the last level of the hierarchy of needs: doing work that's valuable to others, meaningful to you, AND that only you could do. Has been a super helpful guiding principle.
Selfie popularity explained:
"If you want to learn what someone fears losing, watch what they photograph."
👩💻 Founder and Investor Corner
damn, new brands used to be about brands launching new inventions. today it's 6 different brands selling the same white-labeled product
At scale, most companies have many diverse marketing channels that work.
At the earliest stages of a start-up, the most successful strategy is however to find a single distribution channel that lets you bootstrap initial growth.
ROI of £1000 spent on promoting a twitter thread:
📈 1000 followers (1000 -> 2000)
⬆️ 500 followers for @CircuitApp (50 -> 550)
💸 5 investment offers from angels
💰 8 outreaches from VC’s
✉️ 400 new subscriptions to our monthly emails
📑 3 media outreaches
More info, thread:👇
Thinking: our National debt is next bubble. Everyone seems to accept it. Politicians in both parties. And why not? Voters don’t seem to care. So I wonder- at what point does it become obvious to everyone that it has passed a tipping point? $50 Trillion? $100 Trillion? Even more?
Design is more important than ever for startups. One theory why: almost everything else has gotten easier.
Basic tech stacks are a commodity—automation enables smaller, focused teams—capital is abundant.
Product design is a larger percentage of what’s left.
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