Abhilash Rao
@abhilash
Abhilash Rao
20VC Newsletter - May 12th 2024
20vc.substack.com
Video to substack, nice format
Vocabulary gets in the way sometimes. Design is not just a profession. A customer is not only a person who buys something. A product is not just a physical object or software that you sell.
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making - The New York Times bestseller
I’m not sure I could advise an early-stage company to hire a full-stack, multiperson content marketing team in 2024. I might advise them to hire an editorial team or a multimedia team, but not a team to solely focus on SEO content.
Kevan Lee • 517. Do people still SEO? 🐸
PR (Public Relations) can be very effective for building credibility.
Two primary uses for PR to founders: hiring and enhancing the response rate of your cold outreach. In both cases, PR acts as a credibility booster. For hiring, you might include a mention of the article in emails to potential candidates, increasing the likelihood they'll take
Talking or writing about the things you're interested in is a good way to generate new ideas. When you try to put ideas into words, a missing idea creates a sort of vacuum that draws it out of you. Indeed, there's a kind of thinking that can only be done by writing.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
We need to be strong in a moment of crisis by saying, yes, it can be done. And if we’re in a race between bad catastrophe and some kind of beginning prosperity for all — when you’re in a race that intense, you don’t want to sit down on the ground and start crying. Oh, we’ve lost already.