Jordan Bester
@jordanbester
Jordan Bester
In this new paradigm, everyone is a creator, and everyone is an owner. In addition to her work at Variant, Li is also a painter and an accomplished writer on Substack.
from 101 - How To Own The Internet | Li Jin by Li Jin
- - There’s a few scenarios where paid marketing is justified, but it’s situational. If your product has network effects that kick in after an activation point and really scale, you can use paid to help bootstrap that.
from How Startups Die From Their Addiction to Paid Marketing at Andrewchen by Andrew Chen
- The hardest problem in B2C is distribution. The hardest problem in B2B is sales. AppAmaGooBookSoft are AppAmaGooBookSoft primarily because they have mortal locks on distribution.
- Startups are (by necessity) filled with generalists; big companies are filled with specialists. People underestimate how effective a generalist can be at things which ar
... See morefrom Thread by @patio11: "Some people really benefit from hearing advice that everyone knows, for the same reason we keep schools open despite every subject in them h […]" by Patrick McKenzie
- - One reader named Caelan wrote, “I quit smoking by assigning my cheat days progressively farther in the future. I never quit “for good,” I only quit until my next cheat day. This helped with cravings, because the choice wasn’t between “right now” or “never,” it was “right now” or “later.”
from 30 One-Sentence Stories From People Who Have Built Better Habits by James Clear
- - The creative process is the ability to relate old and new ideas. This means creative thinking is the task of recognizing relationships between concepts.
from For a More Creative Brain Follow These 5 Steps by James Clear
- In the near future, you’ll be able to wear virtual clothes in real-time, and in motion. You’ll also be able to ‘own’ the digital assets rather than just having your payment amount to one-photo, and change from garment to garment.
from #1 The What, How and Why of Virtual Fashion by Dani Loftus
- - The point is, knowing that Paid Marketing is highly addictive and hard to scale down, all of us in the industry should always be thinking about the 2nd or 3rd channel, in addition to organic/WOM, to give us a way to wean off an ever-increasing ad budget.
from How Startups Die From Their Addiction to Paid Marketing at Andrewchen by Andrew Chen
- - Start more books. Quit most of them. Read the great ones twice.
from How to Read Better: 3 Simple Ways to Improve Reading Comprehension by JamesClear.com
- So, I’ve invented The Working Resume™. It doesn’t list your academic credentials or any of your prior employers. It doesn’t show any of your past experience and it doesn’t list any jobs you ever did.
from Ask The Headhunter® - Resume Blasphemy by Ask The Headhunter