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1/ We took a risk last year and completely transformed our @MicroConf events. Starting in April 2022, we shifted the focus from talks to forging connections between founders. 🔥🔥
2/ For the past 12 years MicroConfers have raved about the value of the hallway track. But those conversations were reserved for lunches and evenings, since we had 9 speakers over 2 days. But last year we reduced our speaker count to 6, and our most recent event in Europe had 4.
3/ We're taking that extra time and dedicating it to improv classes, trapeze lessons, brewery tours & more to let founders make connections while having new experiences.
Home tonight after my first #microconf (starter edition). I've been wanting to go for about 4 years now, finally happened this year with a scholarship (thanks @Stripe!) A quick thread 👇
I’ve never been in a place like that before. Every single person was warm, interesting, easy to talk to, and with so many similar interests and goals. I’m thoroughly an introvert… and yes, I still got wiped out after talking to people for 2.5 days straight 😬 but sooo worth it.
Being in a room full of brilliant people, all with a similar ethos about doing meaningful independent work 🛠- hard to explain how powerful that was.
1/ Recovering from #MicroConf has me feeling like I left specks of my soul and little drops of brain juice scattered on those 20 carpeted floors above the Nevada desert.
Brought some new parts back, though. Some of my faves:
Brought some new parts back, though. Some of my faves:
2/ Every time I hear @copyhackers speak, she adds a new layer of nuance to a conversion copywriting lesson. My favorite piece from her #microconf talk on why should > could:
"Aspiration is good, but an unrealized destiny, regret and the restoration of justice are more human."
"Aspiration is good, but an unrealized destiny, regret and the restoration of justice are more human."
3/ In @hanne_tt's #microconf talk, she shared how she considers "effort to build" separately from other factors when evaluating feature requests. Someone asked why.
"We don't want a system that de-prioritizes a feature that will help our users just because it's hard to make."
"We don't want a system that de-prioritizes a feature that will help our users just because it's hard to make."
"What's really killing it in SEO in 2019: big, long pillar content. Like 5,000 words." Taylor
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5,000 word posts are your long-form content? That's adorable.
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5,000 word posts are your long-form content? That's adorable.
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(I am the target of this joke, because I tend to write quite a bit when I start to write about something.)
"15~20 years ago, technically-inclined founders routinely got taken to cleaners by capital due to information asymmetry. This is no longer the case due to folks like Brad Feld et al writing about it and PG's YCombinator." @robwalling #microconf
@robwalling I think one of the things we'll see over the *next* 15~20 years is that there will be sufficient money internal to the tech community (broadly writ) such that tapping high net worth individuals / endowments / pension plans won't be necessary.
@robwalling (This has already basically happened prior to Series B or so; the big question is whether it happens to B/C as well. One wonders who will win growth rounds, mutual funds or SoftBank or funds, but I'm glad that my day job is not attempting to build differentiation for money.)
"70% of businesses don't do user research... and this is basically constant over revenue buckets from $0 to $50M+." @AlliBlum #MicroConf
@AlliBlum I think there are a *surprising* number of things you could replace for "user research" here, in that meat-and-potatoes things that are well-written-about seem like they're technologies which should exist everywhere... but they're not.
@AlliBlum Also worth noting that there are many businesses which have several genres of meat-and-potatoes things missing but they do one or several things well enough to cause success in spite of that.
. @SureSwiftCap mentioned that they're a remote-first culture with 80 employees over 14 timezones.
Which: daaaaaaaaang that is operationally impressive.
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Which: daaaaaaaaang that is operationally impressive.
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@SureSwiftCap A word I heard many years ago: "the micro-multinational."
It is a wild, wild thing about the world that a company operating on the scale of a local business can have their definition of local be "Local to any of the ten countries we do business in physically. Or the Internet."
It is a wild, wild thing about the world that a company operating on the scale of a local business can have their definition of local be "Local to any of the ten countries we do business in physically. Or the Internet."
@SureSwiftCap When I was 24 I used to joke "I run a multinational software company" because that was clearly a joke, I mean sure technically speaking there was me in Japan and the customers in the US but that is what nobody means by multinational.
It eventually became not really a joke.
It eventually became not really a joke.
"I hope that more companies like BaseCamp, MailChimp, and us talk widely about how there are happy outcomes for closely held technology companies (and their employees) which don't involve IPO or business sale." #MicroConf
Also, and this is not something you'll hear said too often in software: mad props for the financial industry, right?
"Hello, shareholders of a closely held company. We have some financial engineering to propose which maximizes for your professed values. You will love it."
"Hello, shareholders of a closely held company. We have some financial engineering to propose which maximizes for your professed values. You will love it."
"Fair warning: we do not have to be told to charge more."
Thrilled to announce that Stripe Atlas can now help you form an LLC: stripe.com/blog/atlas-llc
I wrote a guide about tradeoffs between an LLC and a C corporation: stripe.com/atlas/guides/l…
I also have some thoughts:
I wrote a guide about tradeoffs between an LLC and a C corporation: stripe.com/atlas/guides/l…
I also have some thoughts:
Let me start with the obligatory disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer or accountant and cannot give you legal or tax advice. I'm just an entrepreneur who has started four LLCs in two countries and operated two of those businesses through sale.
I started all of my companies as LLCs because they're the low-muss low-fuss option for having something formal between you and the risks associated with a business, and because I wasn't ready to commit to the raise-money try-for-rocket-ship trajectory.
The speaker lineup for #microconf Starter is seriously 🔥.
💻 @csallen
🐉 @patio11
📈 @AlliBlum
🌶 @mojcamars
🌱 @mariepoulin
🏂 @garrettdimon
🏋 @adamwathan
🐶 @singlefounder
👉 microconf.com/starter
💻 @csallen
🐉 @patio11
📈 @AlliBlum
🌶 @mojcamars
🌱 @mariepoulin
🏂 @garrettdimon
🏋 @adamwathan
🐶 @singlefounder
👉 microconf.com/starter
About @csallen:
He took the idea of doing founder interviews to a whole new level.
His site, @IndieHackers, is well-built, beautifully designed, and tells founders' stories better than anyone else.
Now Indie Hackers is one of the most vibrant startup communities on the web.
He took the idea of doing founder interviews to a whole new level.
His site, @IndieHackers, is well-built, beautifully designed, and tells founders' stories better than anyone else.
Now Indie Hackers is one of the most vibrant startup communities on the web.
About @patio11:
Patrick is one of the best storytellers I've met.
And he's been sharing his story, and the lessons he learned along the way, from the time he created his first software company.
He doesn't always send a newsletter, but when he does, I read it right away.
Patrick is one of the best storytellers I've met.
And he's been sharing his story, and the lessons he learned along the way, from the time he created his first software company.
He doesn't always send a newsletter, but when he does, I read it right away.
