Resources

After fighting in the startup trenches for the past 2.5 years, I've realized how absolutely cringe junior VC partners are when they pontificate on *how* startups should operate when they have z-e-r-o startup operating experience. Zero, null, zip, nada.

Jackie Kennedy

10 Public APIs for your next (side) project 🌍 https://t.co/chpBTMcFYO - Country data API 🌱 https://t.co/UNinTnBpgM - Plants data API 🚀 https://t.co/BC0bl87GEK - Space-related API 🎵 https://t.co/bQnhef2Wl8 - Music data API 📰 https://t.co/WWJrmasKo9 - News articles API…

Csaba Kissi

10 powerful Excel shortcuts everyone should know! Don't use Microsoft Excel again without memorizing these: https://t.co/NTokjhlQFD

Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com

The best way to learn about business? Start one.

Serkan Toplu

I think this is a trend that continues to grow because people are seeing more examples of this type of entrepreneurship. It isn't unrealistic to create a business that pay you $2-3M of free-cash flow in 24 months or under. We did that with @boringmarketer (worth a follow).…

GREG ISENBERG

5 words to never use in marketing… Don’t use “cheap”… try words like affordable. Don’t use “discount”… try limited time offer or promotion or X% off. Don’t use “buy”… try start my free trial, upgrade, add to cart or get started. Don’t use “hurry up”… instead if there is…

Neil Patel

Yesterday, I posted some resources that we often recommend. What are some of your favorite Carrd resources that weren't mentioned?

Carrd

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Carrd

7 truths about entrepreneurship that you need to accept: 1. You don’t need funding, you need to do a better job at managing your expenses. It used to be that you needed millions of dollars to create a company. But due to the cloud and AI the cost to start a business has…

Neil Patel

We’re all taught this in school… but it screws you up in the real world. Our teachers told us we could do anything. And they tried to help us be great at everything… But then you go into the real world and see how the best earners typically aren’t great at everything. They…

Neil Patel

5 GPTs That Are Game-Changing For Entrepreneurs There are custom versions of ChatGPT that can make your life easier as an entrepreneur. Here are 5 worth checking out: 1. Data Analyst – you can drop in a file and it helps you visualize the data. This is a great way for you…

Neil Patel

Startups that focus on product lose to startups that focus on distribution.

Michael Houck 💡

You are wasting your time using AI to create content. Yes, AI helps you come up with ideas. And, AI helps you create content faster. When using AI we found that you can write content, post it into a CMS, and publish it all within 16 minutes. Humans on the other hand took an… https://t.co/qDz8mIrd6i

Neil Patel

It took me 18 years to learn this and I’ll teach it to you in less than 1 minute. No matter what your company is or what it does… No matter how much money you raised or didn’t… Or how good you are at marketing or aren’t. The way you are going to get sales you want isn’t…

Neil Patel

@vocalcry What does building a company have to do with anything? VC is a persona you take on where you rent day passes for luxury office spaces and cars to film tiktoks selling your online courses

Tree Person 🌳

The number of 23 year-olds who have never built a company let alone worked at a company calling themselves VCs is staggering

Circe

You’re wasting your time on SEO. Yes, there are 8.5 billion searches on Google each day, which means there is a lot of potential traffic for you to get. But over the last 30 days, 94.29% of the web pages indexed in Google got 0 visitors. Chances are, you are going to be in the…

Neil Patel

To the new entrepreneurs who think they are losing because they haven’t raised millions of dollars and aren’t generating millions in revenue… You are wrong! It doesn’t matter how good your idea is or how talented you are. You’re taking one big factor for granted… Time! Let…

Neil Patel

The VC hype cycle really went from metaverse to crypto to artificial intelligence all in the space of 18 months

Dr. Parik Patel, BA, CFA, ACCA Esq.

Venture Capital Hierarchy of Needs (2023 edition) What would you add? https://t.co/eyqvSGYBUh

VCs Congratulating Themselves 👏👏👏

Congratulations to everyone that made the Forbes 30 under 30 list today! We can’t wait to see who’s next in the 30u30 to prison pipeline!

VCs Congratulating Themselves 👏👏👏

LinkedIn bios be like… https://t.co/cFcQz3YagE

The State of LinkedIn

VCs doing due diligence on a pre-product AI startup founded by some Stanford bros https://t.co/RoC3CrnciR

VCs Congratulating Themselves 👏👏👏

You can outperform most venture funds by buying LEGO. I analyzed the last 20 years of secondhand LEGO pricing data, and found randomly purchasing sets will match most VC's returns if you're somewhat intentional about what you buy-- you massively outperform even the best firms https://t.co/RjeuzHfAYq

Will Manidis

Every founder should watch this! How to negotiate with VCs: https://t.co/eAJDenxK9k

Steph from OpenVC

TechBro bios: "Investor, Advisor, Entrepreneur, Founder, Podcaster, Content Creator, Writer" Reality: invested 2k into a startup once, advised a roommate's company for a few weeks, wrote two articles, failed founder, 36 newsletter subscribers

VCs Congratulating Themselves 👏👏👏

@zehranaqvi_ if you want to be like most VCs here is the playbook: - self-aggrandizing posts about how great/smart you are - Pseudo-philosophical posts - vacation flex posts - name-dropping companies you used to work for even though you never built anything - Supporting hype cycles,…

VCs Congratulating Themselves 👏👏👏

25 qualities of a great piece of content: 1. Talks about something new 2. Gets to the point 3. Incorporates storytelling 4. In a conversational tone 5. Contains media 6. Data-driven 7. Actionable 8. Easy to understand 9. Flows well 10. Organized 11. Scannable 12. Highlights a…

Neil Patel

Email Peeps #33 This week, we have the pleasure of featuring Mike Nelson, Co-Founder of @reallygoodemail! 💌 Find out how Mike started RGE 🤩 Mike talks about what keeps him excited about email ⚖️ Get Mike's tips for managing work/life balance → https://t.co/K6bNqCdt6l https://t.co/sKy0sxruel

Email Love

people in tech put [previously: tech company] in their bios like they are collecting infinity stones

VCs Congratulating Themselves 👏👏👏

You can now use ChatGPT inside Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets. Here's how:

Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com

Google has just integrated AI into Sheets It helps you process spreadsheets much more easily. You can understand data, generate formulas and tables. I'll show you how to access it and what you can do with it 🧵 https://t.co/lEcptc3ydY

Paul Couvert

Silicon Valley doesn’t fund gritty founders. It funds founders with brand names (MIT, Stanford, Google, Meta). Being gritty is a bonus not a requirement.

Prasann Pandya

Let me guess... your competitive landscape slide has you and you alone in the upper right hand corner? 🤔

Caitlin Bolnick Rellas

Your brain is not a storage device, it is a cosmic antenna.

Norgard

“Cofounder” is a recruiting tool Every successful startup has one founder, and many early employees

Sahil Lavingia

@dvassallo LinkedIn feels like nobody is being themselves or genuine. It's full of self promoting corporate slang, thank you posts, etc. Corporate favourite echo chamber

Andrei Otel

@dvassallo LinkedIn has run its course like MySpace.

Rhianna Rita Starr

Most people have no idea what VCs look for I certainly didn’t Then I founded a startup that raised $10M from a16z Here are 13 things that get VCs to write a check:

Michael Houck 💡

@dvassallo It became social media to show off…

Guk

Your unboxing experience is the only thing that has a 100% open rate. And @noahkagan killed it. • Custom branded box • Personal note • Branded hat • Stickers • Graduation certificate It’s one thing to send someone a book. It’s another thing to send someone an… https://t.co/1AVCKh3Qvr

Alex Garcia 🔍

Do they call it gross pay because it’s disgusting to see how much you could’ve made before they took it all in taxes?

greg

@anothercohen Without LinkedIn where will you announce to the world how excited you are for the next chapter in your career and how grateful you are to your team for their hard work and leadership?

Josh Minney

3.4 billion people use Google Chrome as their internet browser. There are 200,000 different extensions for Chrome and here are 10 you shouldn't live without:

Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com

"No one opens emails!" 4.3B users & 21% open rates say otherwise. But old tricks don't work anymore. In 2024, e-mail will look very different. We're sick of spam. Let's embrace the NEW EMAIL ERA. 1. Short, snackable bursts of info delivered at the perfect time (think coffee…

Neil Patel

1st product: failed in 2 years 2nd product: failed in 18 months 3rd product: failed in 3 months 4th product: failed in 2 weeks .. 13th: product: success Fail faster Experiment more Try solving the same problem in many different way https://t.co/3GIaNsDzmD

Tibo

My favorite AI prompt to help you identify more keywords to target for SEO. As a heads up this prompt doesn't work on ChatGPT, but it does work on Bard. Here's the prompt: Please analyze the text on [insert URL] and recommend other keywords I should target on this page that…

Neil Patel

5 GPTs That Are Game-Changing For Marketers There are custom versions of ChatGPT that can make your life easier as a marketer. Here are 5 worth checking out: 1. Humanizer PRO - Writes text like a human, avoiding AI detection most of the time. This tool humanizes your content…

Neil Patel

rule of thumb for investor updates: - long update = mediocre business - no update = 90% chance of death - short update w/ metrics = business will succeed

Shaan Puri

There is going to be a rude awakening for influencers this year. And one number tells it all. $323.19 So, what is that number? Well, we surveyed 5920 influencers, marketers, and content creators… The average monthly income that they generate from their social media profiles…

Neil Patel

Instagram is ~50% sponsored content and notifications I don’t want. Verging on unusable

Laurie Owen

The dumbest thing you can spend money on as an entrepreneur is a business coach. I just don’t get it. I know so many people who spend money on coaches. And they always tell me, oh this coach is so successful, smart, and rich… It’s a bunch of bull… if the coach were that…

Neil Patel

The notion that you can build a good product and it will create a big company without marketing is one of the biggest misconceptions I have heard. There are a lot of companies with good products that haven’t done well. No matter how great your product is, if you can’t get it in…

Neil Patel

Paul Graham says young founders make this big mistake: They "play" founder and do what sounds good: → Have a smart sounding idea → Raise money → Hire smart friends → Rent a nice office But the only thing that matters is building something people want. Don't forget that. https://t.co/na7pVLGC1l

Michael Houck 💡

Our short summary of why and where @Carrd is a great tool to use in your projects https://t.co/4vEl4Cd1K0

Starrt | Resources for Carrd

I believe there are two types of mistakes in a company: - errors of action - errors of inaction Errors of action are totally OK. understandable. You tried doing something, but made a mistake along the way. Normal. Expected. No biggie. These are the bumps & bruises of…

Shaan Puri

If you are an influencer marketer and don’t know these 2 things you are going to struggle to make a career out of it. 1. It’s not about how many followers you have, it’s about how many engaged followers you have in a specific vertical. When we surveyed 5920 influencers, their…

Neil Patel

Venture capital is only built for founders that want to build massive companies. Most other startups are better off bootstrapping.

Michael Houck 💡

Respectfully disagree. Focus on product market fit & only on product market fit. Until you have it. Then only focus on growth. Follow this advice, you likely open pandora's box. There are too many other temptations that feel like business building but are blackhole of time.

Suleman "Suli" Ali

Google has integrated AI into Slides You can now generate slides, images, text for your presentations. This Gemini integration is available natively without installing anything. Here's how to use it and an overview of what it can do: https://t.co/ceN6LsvIJY

Paul Couvert

You can do anything, but you can’t to everything. Such a powerful way to think. Love this episode from the @myfirstmilpod Thank you for the wisdom unc @ShaanVP https://t.co/XvsNUGX60K

Joseph Siegel

"Don’t compare your inside to someone else’s outside." –Kevin Kelly

Andrew Wilkinson

Stop getting brainwashed by Y Combinator and listen to this instead for inspiration:

Daniel Vassallo

@VCBrags you just gave me an idea to create a new card game inspired by Exploding Kittens 🤔 'Silicon Shenanigans, Where Unicorns are made of Ballons, not Billions.'

Wannabexperts

The true secret to $1M solo success is a paradox. I analyzed $1M+ creators these days. A startling observation and 5 game-changing hypotheses: Most $1M creators focus on teaching others how to create, build communities, or start businesses. Very few achieve $1M with any other… https://t.co/q8PrVOt1zk

Alexei Strasser

For Gen Z, TikTok and Instagram now outrank Google for finding local business by 62% and 67% respectively according to Marketing Dive and SOCi. But if you can’t find the keywords they are using, you’ll miss out on that traffic. Here’s how to find out the keywords Gen Z are… https://t.co/lLiITaerIm

Neil Patel

@heyalexfriedman “Buy my course and join my discord”

VCs Congratulating Themselves 👏👏👏

a16z counting those management fees https://t.co/YrjdPOqaMo

VCs Congratulating Themselves 👏👏👏

Next week, I will help you plan a profitable newsletter. Three days. Three parts. One actionable plan. Join the 102 newsletter smart-asses already signed up: (Last day to join is March 28) https://t.co/UfAr6SYBLD

🌶 Jens | Newsletter Rebel

Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets now work with Chat GPT. You can use AI directly in spreadsheets to 10x your productivity. Here's how to use it:

Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com

Half the world is so irrevocably lost in 'hustle culture' and 'grinding' at the same time automation/AI is sending the value of all such work to 0. If you hope to ever do anything creative you need space to think. Contemplation time sans screens is most sacred and most disdained

Adam Singer

If you're starting or running a business, I highly encourage you to read these 3 pages once a year or so to remember how to deal and benefit from all the chaos and disorder around you:

Daniel Vassallo

What cracks me up about some pre-seed funds: “Well back an idea.” “You don’t need revenue just a solid MVP.” Also pre-seed funds: “Here are all my concerns after going through your MVP” (that the founder had $0 to build.) “Why aren’t you generating revenue?” If you don’t…

Brett

I just returned from a CEO retreat with 49 founders with over $36B of exits under their belt. Here are 7 takeaways from three days of diving deep: 1. That business you thought was "sexy" from the outside? It might be held together with chewing gum and duct tape and about to…

Founder Kyle

New podcast about the early early days of Reddit. Bunch of interesting nuggets I didn’t know before https://t.co/2rJp3Ox2rB

Shaan Puri

Entrepreneurship degrees are worthless. Theory doesn't help you build something people want. You just need to understand your users better than anyone else. https://t.co/BaLlZ7FLtl

Michael Houck 💡

Keep an eye on the quiet ones They don’t tout their goals Or promote their plans One day you run into them & they've transformed When you’re tired of talking And focus on doing Time will slow down And you accomplish in 6 months What most talk about for 10 years.

Crista Braun

9 pitch decks from unicorn startups: https://t.co/IQG1gwNAaN

Michael Houck 💡

“Running a startup is so hard” I used to think that, but now I see it doesn’t have to be. Most of the suffering comes from self-owns at the mindset level. You can cure your anxiety and it will increase your odds significantly. https://t.co/sT5UCbGbUF

Nathan Baschez

@awilkinson Comparing and judging others downgrades yourself - not others. It signals low maturity, self-esteem, and intelligence.

MAXIMILLIAN

Launch your product with "unreasonable" pricing. I charged initial users $1,000/mo (today it's $49/mo). Some people I tried selling to ended the conversion immediately. But 3 people paid right away even though our: → Logo was literally an emoji → Onboarding flow was a…

Michael Houck 💡

To-do: Build a Bubble App ✅ Learn how to build a complete to-do app in just 10 minutes with Bubble co-founder Josh Haas 🎯 Watch the tutorial and catch the Q&A recap from #HowtoBuildDay on the blog 👇 https://t.co/3O88yoeKfD

Bubble

1) Value: is what they get 2) Price: is what they pay 3) Cost: is what it costs you Great business: 1 > 2 > 3 Most businesses: 2 > 1 > 3 Bad software startups: 3 > 2 > 1 😂

Alex Hormozi

what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?

Will Manidis

Quick reminder that Microsoft has a free gallery of prompts ready to use. It's called Copilot Labs and it's accessible from any browser. You can filter, save and copy them with one click. More details and the link below: https://t.co/8YIFE4QYXs

Paul Couvert

An observation about solopreneurs on Twitter: Many struggle to make $1 online because they are focused on how to make $1M online. Making $1 will change the way you think. Start small, not grandiose.

Justin Welsh

LinkedIn is like "I see you have 2 arms and legs. I also have 2 arms and legs. Let's connect." #linkedin

Philip Wilkinson

Underrated sign of a successful launch: A lot of support tickets. It means that you didn't wait too long to launch, and that your early users care about the product enough to complain about the bugs.

Michael Houck 💡

ICYMI: the official Loops plugin is now available to all Bubble makers 🤗

Loops.so

@IAmPascio @canva @gumroad @copy_ai @NotionHQ @buffer Thanks for the mention!

Carrd

I had coffee with the head of a large family office today, and he said something really profound that I’d never quite put together. Paraphrasing: “Capital structure ripples through management and ultimately ripples through employee experience” If you work in a business run for…

Xavier Helgesen

Haven't done a @bubble tip in a while! If you're working on an app where users will likely have poor internet connection, you can simulate this in Chrome devtools using the throttling feature. Used it this week to test an image uploading feature. Super useful 🔥 https://t.co/J0D2YoTXrn

No Code Pete

Normalize not criticizing others for attempting something you were too fucking scared to try.

Mark Manson

@IAmMarkManson Social media has made it common for people to compare their everyday lives to the highlight reels of strangers. Long-term, this isn't a great way to treat your brain, as comparison is the thief of joy. Focus on your own (offline) highlight reels.

Kevin Tejada🦊

Here's the template I use whenever I need to delegate something. It's yours to copy/use/steal. https://t.co/lCvAiAqTc0

David Perell

Just started playing with this… now I can see how AI becomes a game changer for Ecom businesses

Shaan Puri

If I woke up with 0 followers tomorrow, I would do this to reach 10,000 followers by the end of the year. Now, keep in mind I’ve been doing this for a while, so I have a good understanding of what works. Just look at my follower count by network… X - 461k YouTube - 1.25m…

Neil Patel

Can I share a dirty little startup secret? NOBODY is “crushing it” all the time. Every single one of your business heroes is fixing something really fucking embarrassingly stupid at any given time. There’s not a single one who’s not. And many times these problems will be…

Eoghan McCabe

It's called gross pay cause it's disgusting to see what you could have made.

Douglas A. Boneparth

.@naval: "Networking is overrated. Go do something great and your network will instantly emerge." https://t.co/xirb8rFDc7

Turpentine

When I was young, I dealt with serious social anxiety. Then I got over it. Since then, I’ve spent 15 years working with 1,000s of people who also struggle with anxiety. This is what works (a thread) 👇 https://t.co/DTbCm83zFr

Mark Manson

Stop measuring traffic! It’s one of the big time wasters for businesses and marketers. I used to log into my Google Analytics 10 to 15 times a day. Now… once every few days. Traffic is great but if it doesn’t impact revenue and profit, who cares. If it does than go get more…

Neil Patel

What’s the difference between revenue and ARR? https://t.co/WSyBuB6iq4 #revenue #arr #startups https://t.co/f47kU5ukVg

Kruze Consulting

having your own company means failure is 100% your fault even if someone else did something to make you fail, its your fault for allowing them to work with you

brett goldstein

Stop sending emails without a link. Even if you only want to educate and inform, you still want to add links. It’s for one simple reason; you are training your audience to take action. By teaching them that they need to “click” to get more value, they will be more likely to…

Neil Patel

Knowing which features to prioritize when building your roadmap can be overwhelming. One way to make it easier: having the right framework 🖼️ We broke down 8 of the best ones — including which to use and when 👇 https://t.co/BisVTy83US

Bubble

In the last 20yrs, "study CS and work in tech" became a "path" to wealth Now: —BigTech did layoffs, aren't hiring —Tech job postings are ~40% of '21 —Startups often prefer tenured hires —Huge pipeline of CS majors: 40% of MIT Winter is coming for software engineering. 🧵 1/5 https://t.co/VPU6WWuTTl

Deedy

You'll never run out of content ideas after reading this. Go look up an influencer in your space. Load up one of their social profile. Scroll to one of their most popular videos. And you’ll notice tons of comments… most of them won’t be answered. Look for the ones that are… https://t.co/bKA2xhuIq4

Neil Patel

the biggest distractions for founders: in NYC: the city in SF: technical rabbit holes that don't move your metrics in Europe: low-ambition people looking down on you

brett goldstein

97% of websites waste their traffic! We looked at 1000 websites that we have analytics access to. 26 of them were leveraging conversion optimization effectively. Just think about that... you spend all this time and money attracting visitors, but you spend little to no effort…

Neil Patel

What most people think successful content marketing looks like: - Going viral - Likes - Followers - Becoming famous What successful content marketing really looks like: - Helping your ideal customer through educational content related to your product or service - Selling by…

Neil Patel