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This week: π€Thought Starters, πDay in the Life: Jessica Powell, π©βπ¨36 Days of Type, π©βπ»Founder & Investor Corner, & πΉ Funnies.
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By Greg Kubin
π€ Thought Starters
(Four Tweets this week that made us think)
πΒ Day in the Life:Β Jessica Powell
(Day in The Life is a series about the daily routines of founders at different stages of the startup journey)
Jessica Powell is the co-founder of a music collaboration software that will be launched later this year. Jessica is a first-time founder after heading up PR at Google. She also just publishedΒ The Big Disruption: A Totally Fictional but Essentially True Silicon Valley Story. She is based in San Francisco.
π Hereβs a day in the life of Jessica.
π©βπ¨Β 36 Days of Type
β36 Days of Typeβ is a celebration of global creativity, showcased on Instagram. Itβs worth checking out.
Thousands of designers, illustrators, and artists participate in the challenge every year to share creative interpretations of letters and numbers.
βOur ABCs and 123s are in many ways the shape and substance of our collective visual vocabulary itselfβ, participant and CoFounder Weekly contributor Victor Sanabria told us. β#36daysoftype has tapped into this and unearthed the creative energy of artists worldwide.β
The project was started by Nina Sans and Rafa Goicoechea and has turned into a global community and movement (#36daysoftype has 617k posts & @36daysofype Instagram has 200k followers).
Hereβs some of our favs:
Check out Victor Sanabriaβs letter R above. ππ.
π©βπ» Investor and Founder Corner
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πGOODY BAG (fun things weβve been reading)
Cold emails to the CEO/CTO of Vanguard and Wells Fargo that actually got responses
How to sell onions on the internet. 10/10 for tone of article
Two short posts to improve your writing: (1) The Day You Became A Better Writer by Scott Adams and (2) How to write like the great entrepreneurs by Babak Nivi
π Putting it out in to universe
Ever want a guided tour of your cityβs street art? Thereβs an app for that: Art Pigeon. Engineer Daniel Goldstone has initially launched in NYC. Daniel is looking to for a partner to help with business development to work on local partnerships (e.g. a hotel could offer guests a branded guided tour). Interested? Reach out at daniel@artpigeon.nyc.
πΉ Funnies
(LOLs from this week)
βΒ Writersβ Room
Last week, we hosted a writerβs room with some CoFounder Weekly readers. We riffed on a bunch of topics and listened to Benny play his viola. Stay tuned for some of the fun ideas we came up with.
Interested in participating in the next one? Reply to this email and weβll loop you in.
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The images in the #36daysoftype sections above spell C-O-F-O-U-N-D-E-R,
P.S. Here are the results to last weekβs poll:
Teens these days are skipping out on getting their drivers licenses. Our readers on the the other handβ¦