Ellen Donnelly
@ellendonnelly
Ellen Donnelly
Sorry (Not Sorry), Self-Promotion Doesn't Work
whatworks.fyiTara McMcMullin - Self-promotion doesn’t work
Platforms don't stand by and let peer-to-peer exchange happen. They're not absent from these relations.
Tara McMullin • 'The Creator Economy Is Eating Creative Acts'
With billions of people using the major social platforms, and the people who remember a pre-social-media web increasing in age while decreasing as cultural force on the internet, we’re rapidly losing fluency in what the internet could look like. We’ve almost forgotten that links are powerful, and that restraining links through artificial scarcity i... See more
Anil Dash • “Link in Bio” Is a Slow Knife
We can't build a sustainable business by chasing every opportunity.
A sustainable business is strategically constrained. Its leaders know what the business is and, more importantly, what it's not.
A sustainable business is strategically constrained. Its leaders know what the business is and, more importantly, what it's not.
Tara McMullin • Why Nachos Aren't on the Menu
I believe that the time for being identified by—and tied to—corporate jobs is passing, and it’s time to transition to what comes next
What I'm Doing and How It's Going
People would pay thousands of dollars to be a fly on the wall in some of Amy Buechler’s conversations. As a licensed psychotherapist and the first (and only) in-house founder coach at famed startup accelerator Y Combinator (YC), Buechler has mentored countless of its batches, the cohorts of startup founders who made it past YC’s razor-thin
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Gena Gorlin • Startup Lessons From Y Combinator’s Most Sought-after Executive Coach
Coaching - What it is, isn't, the business model of it
founder coaching
Advertisers love how non-paid content blurs with paid content because it makes their ads feel more "authentic." Platforms love it because advertisers love it.
... See moreThis is the allure of visiting status limbo. Taking the leap to take a sabbatical, change careers, start a startup, or shut down a startup all come with their own consequences, but the prospect of a win is compelling. At the same time, the reality of going through status limbo first subconsciously weighs on people.2
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... See moreCoaching is, by definition, the process of partnering with clients in a powerful, thought-provoking way that brings creativity, insight, and personal development to the client through the discovery, design and follow through on thoughts, beliefs and actions uncovered by the client. While the coach is there to inspire the client through this process
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