Sam Parr (The Hustle) and Alex Lieberman/Austin Rief (Morning Brew) just shared how they went from 0 to a combined $100M+ exit. Here's their year-by-year revenue and 5 strategies that worked:Their revenue growth: Morning Brew:• 2016: $25K revenue, 100K subscribers• 2017: $300K, 100K subs• 2018: $3.1M, 1M subs• 2019: $13.1M, $3M profit• 2020: $20M,... See more

When an industry, technology, or product area feels mature and "settled" (like online payments in 2009 with PayPal and many others, or email clients today), it doesn't mean that its a bad space to build something new. In fact, such inertia or perceived product maturity may be signs of a huge opportunity. In these cases, you should build from the... See more

At YC we use the term "Collison installation" for the technique they invented. More diffident founders ask "Will you try our beta?" and if the answer is yes, they say "Great, we'll send you a link." But the Collison brothers weren't going to wait. When anyone agreed to try Stripe they'd say "Right then, give me your laptop" and set them up on the... See more