There are 100s of threads on building and running startups.

Here are 10 that are pure gold:

Fund-raising is hard for all of us.

@justinkan shares some unique insights on how to do it well.

https://t.co/PNMG423rXW
We rarely hear honest reflections from founders on what they messed up.

@apartovi shares his reflections on a deal that went wrong with Steve Jobs.

https://t.co/3pvF2fd0Vr
Some gems in this thread by @agazdecki on a wide variety of founder topics.

https://t.co/NZL9Vzzxum
@ryantakesoff shares some solid principles learned from building a multi-billion dollar business.

https://t.co/5S1sb8JejH
If you are getting started with your product/start-up check out this thread by @gaganbiyani on how to validate it efficiently.

https://t.co/3WwPUmJw7R
In today's funding climate it is very tempting to raise as much money as possible and scale.

But if you don't have real product-market fit, it is dangerous to scale the company.

Great thread by @andrewchen.

https://t.co/R3LkOUKAu7
Marketing, when done right, is the gift that keeps on giving.

@heykahn shares some awesome tips on how to do stellar copywriting.

Good copywriting can be a massive growth lever for any start-up.

https://t.co/85ul2HxD9r
Hiring is a superpower that founders need to develop.

https://t.co/aiuiQyuerw
B2B sales are the bloodline of any enterprise business, but most founders struggle with it.

Here is an awesome thread by @lennysan on sales stories from companies like Figma, Airtable, and Dropbox.

https://t.co/bv0AQTVmtB
I have been part of several early-stage companies.

Here are lessons to save you costly mistakes in the earliest days.

https://t.co/6WOkSegwq5
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A solo media founder like Rogan or Mr Beast can make as much money as a strong tech founder, with significantly less managerial stress.

Tech created this ecosystem but there’s a historical cultural bias in tech towards media as unprofitable. That changed a long time ago.

Many more angels that invest in people will invest in media founders. Many traditional media people will *become* media founders.

But not necessarily big companies. Just solo individuals or small groups doing content, like Notch doing Minecraft. Because media scales like code.

Increasingly feeling like “keeping the team size as small as possible, even to one person” is the unarticulated key to making media profitable.

Substack and all the creator tools are just the start of this ecosystem.


The process of converting social influencers into media founders (a trend that has been going on for 10+ years at this point) will be increasingly streamlined.

V1 is link-in-bio, Substack, and sponcon.

V2 likely involves more angels & tokenization a la @tryrollhq. What else?

Why lack of awareness? Influencer monetization numbers are not as public as tech numbers.

There isn’t a TechCrunch & CrunchBase for media founders, chronicling the valuations of influencers.

But that’d be quite valuable. If you are interested in doing this, please DM with demo.

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