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One of the best ways to get interest is to tie the product to a personal story, and use storytelling. People don’t care about the company pitch. They want to hear the real story - the struggles and small wins behind the launch.
How I'd grow Typehut
Design is often an overlooked element but it’s really important. It acts on a subconscious level that uses it as a proxy to evaluate product quality.
How I'd grow Typehut
He’s a very happy person, Warren Buffett, I have to tell you. I just had dinner with him. He seemed the happiest
After an “identity crisis,” Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya says he’s taught himself how to be happy again
What’s the initial courage threshold? It’s super low.
After an “identity crisis,” Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya says he’s taught himself how to be happy again
What is the hard thing? Make every room in every building that’s not a hotel bookable and behavable like a hotel.
After an “identity crisis,” Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya says he’s taught himself how to be happy again
A platform like Twitter makes our asynchronous posts feel like real-time interaction by delivering them in such rapid succession, and that illusion begets another more powerful one, that we’re all actually present within the feed. If you and I are both present, moreover, that implies that we’re together, something that is always almost true within these social networks but never quite achieved.
#162: Minimum Viable Self - Kneeling Bus
Specifically, I realized that when I feel distracted or unfocused, I have a (mostly subconscious) negative emotional reaction that makes me procrastinate harder. The "Self-Compassion Break" meditation is about treating everyday moments like this as a moment of suffering, acknowledging that you are not alone in your suffering, and sending yourself some love (as you would to a friend).
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"We tried a few “growth hacks” to get things going — e.g. going to universities with high proportions of foreign students and giving them referral bonuses if they invited their friends; hitting HR directors of businesses that paid people in Euros and telling them they could give their employees a pay raise by paying with TransferWise. We realized these hacks only worked when the person who was hustling on our behalf was an existing customer."
How 4 European Startups Acquired Their First 1000 Users - First 1000