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- In 2020, Discord earned just $1.30 in Average Revenue Per User (ARPU). That would rank it last among the public social media companies by a wide margin.
from Discord: Imagine a Place by Packy McCormick
- Creating a product isn’t always an easy journey. Pioneered by the likes of Joel Gascoigne of Buffer and Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt, the idea of building in public leans into this authenticity, encouraging founders to share their journey—including the struggles along the way. Products constantly grow and evolve; building in public allows startups t... See more
from The Building in Public How-To Guide by Gaby Goldberg
- What makes crypto unique is its potential to expand on that familiar framework. The principal innovation of crypto networks is their ability to grow network effects by enabling users to share in the value they create.
from Crypto’s Business Model is Familiar. What Isn’t is Who Benefits by Jesse Walden
- “Get comfortable being uncomfortable. When the company is growing so fast that it’s changing underneath you, you have to learn your job over and over again.”
from 60 Company Builders Share Their Advice for Startup Founders by Sequoia Capital
- In the words of Other Internet, "founders who desire a welcoming and wholesome community are personally responsible for embodying that culture" within said community. In the context of Web3 onboarding, this means that no one, not even core team members, is "above" providing core customer support tasks like setting up crypto wallets and going over g... See more
from Behind our first $STREAM airdrop by Cherie Hu
Be versatile. This can mean many things — but essentially, have strong convictions, but loosely held. Don’t be married to your ideas or plans — because in the beginning they are sure to not go the way you think. Adapt to what people actually want, not what you thought they would, and pivot or rebuild if you need to.
from How Notion Grows by Jaryd Hermann
- there is also a ceiling of finances and attention. Who has time or money to consume 100 substacks a month? The redundancy question, and lack of coordination between different creators to divide up responsibilities and admin, I think also eventually exhausts the medium and ultimately the audience.
from Web3 As An Interdependent Economy: A Conversation With Mat Dryhurst by George Howard
- ultimately i don’t think the problem is a ctually that it’s difficult for me to find work that is good for myself and good for the world; the problem is that those two parts of me both feel the need to be attended to most of the time. i should be allowed to take turns focusing on one thing at a time without the other feeling neglected. i should be ... See more
from avatar by Vincent Huang
Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
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