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I Just Hit $100k/yr On GitHub Sponsors! 🎉❤️ (How I Did It)
said thanks (sort of), and he ended up hiring me for my first set of paid teaching gigs at the unbelievable rate (or so I thought at the time) of £800 per day. This was a super exciting milestone, since it proved to me that I was actually improving. Since then, I’ve seen my rates creep slowly upward to the point where I was earning more in an after
... See moreDevin Hunt • The Workshop Survival Guide: How to design and teach educational workshops that work every time
It took Customer.io 10 months to get from $50K to $100K MRR
Jan-Erik Asplund • Customer.io: The $400M HubSpot of Product-Led Growth
A cool way to bootstrap a cooperative:
package the business plan as a beautiful zine and sell 1,000 copies (doubling as memberships) for $100/ each.
I tried to embrace “learning in public” as much as I could. In addition to writing blog posts and tweeting, I created a bunch of other artifacts, like conference talks (developer conferences are a thing, which was new for me!), interviews, a podcast series, and lists published as GitHub repositories.
nadia.xyz • Reimagining the PhD
Building relationships was, in parallel with hypothesis generation, the most important part of this phase. I got a strong response to my initial post, which I think was an unintentional effect of spending a lot of time trying to get to know open source developers beforehand. Once I started publishing, those conversations meant that there were a bun... See more
nadia.xyz • Reimagining the PhD
Pass on great people
David Heinemeier Hansson • Rework
We were making about ten grand a month when I dedicated to GitHub full-time, and we probably paid ourselves three grand each. And then a third and a fourth person came on, P. J. Hyett and Scott Chacon. We were making money, and we didn’t need to think about fundraising. We liked what we were doing, and we were happy with what we had and the people
... See moreAli Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
I'm open sourcing the first 20 investor updates we ever sent!