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Feb 5, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
1/4 The best tech article I read this week is Outgrowing Advertising by @conniechan, Partner at a16z. In this post, she writes about the different business models of Chinese Entertainment Apps.

a16z.com/2018/12/07/whe…

#BusinessModels #startups
2/4 She suggests that startups should experiment with multiple business models and eventually outgrow advertising or subscription revenue. I learned that the podcast market in China is 3-5 billion USD, more than ten times the size of that in the US.
3/4 The business model of podcast makers is not just dependent on advertising; it's a mixture of subscription and asking for donations. There are also tiny paid MOOCs in the form of podcasts.
4/4 She also shares some exciting examples of how products such as Tencent Music (Spotify of China) WeRead (China's Kindle), and iQiyi (Youtube of China) have created new business models instead of relying on traditional ones.

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Oct 10, 2020
Twilio, with a market cap of $45B, is going to acquire Segment for $3.2 B.

Q: Why are these companies of such high value?

A: We need to first understand the modern software development stack and two essential concepts:

1. Abstraction
2. Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting.

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2/n
 Software Development is about abstraction.

As a user, you don't need to know what's happening under the hood.

Ex - An iPhone Developer only cares about how her app works, not how Apple's hardware interacts with its operating system.
3/n

Similarly, a whole group of software development functions - hosting, payments, storage, analytics, communication are being abstracted by modern services such as AWS, Twilio, Stripe, and Segment.

A software developer can now focus on the core value of the product.
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Sep 26, 2020
Software Icons are a universal way of communication.

Don't try to make icons unique. Your users should guess it instantly.

You are better off downloading existing icons than creating a new pack.

Listing some of the most popular free icon packs in thread 👇
1. ionicons (ionicons.com) by the team behind @Ionicframework

They have three variations - outline, filled, and sharp.

All the licenses are free for personal and commercial use.
2. Feather (feathericons.com) thanks to @colebemis for making it open-source.

I just love the website. It's a great repo of outline style icons. You can change color, size, and stroke in the site itself.
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Sep 25, 2020
If you ever had to create a landing page or marketing asset for a side-hustle or an open-source project, you have struggled to find quality illustrations.

In this thread 👇

I am sharing some of the open-source illustrations we have been using in the last two years. open-sourcing some of OSlas...
1. Undraw (undraw.co ) by @NinaLimpi

It has +100 illustrations that can be customized by changing colors. Thanks to her generosity, you can use it for personal and commercial projects without any attribution.
2. Humaaans - (humaaans.com) by @pablostanley

It's an illustration library of body elements such as hairs, legs, and arms that one can be combined to make beautiful illustrations of people.
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Sep 19, 2020
Notion recently announced they are introducing backlinks, one of the most loved features of Roam Research.

There is a cycle here.

A startup discovers a novel feature. The entire industry rapidly adopts the feature, making it a commodity.

Examples in Thread 👇
💡Kanban Board:

In 2012, Trello pioneered Kanban Board and built an entire company around it.

Asana, the then leading collaboration platform, launched Kanban in 2016.
💡Grammar Editing and Spell Check:

Grammarly has been a leader in the document editing market with 6.5m + users, with integrations to Docs and MS Word.

Microsoft launched MS Editor, bundling it with Office 365 as a part of MS Word.
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Oct 30, 2019
For 10 Days, I meditated 12 hours a day.

No talking. No reading. No writing. No communication.

I woke up a 4 AM and went to bed by 9 PM. I was eating simple vegetarian food only twice a day.

That's Vipassana. Image
In July, I finished a 10 Day Vipassana Course before starting @demandwork.

I lived the life of a monk. Living with basic necessities of life: - a simple vegetarian meal two times a day, a bucket of hot water, and a bed to sleep. ImageImage
After three months of practising meditation for 1 hour a day. Here are the benefits.

1/ Increased awareness.
2/ Nothing is permanent.
3/ Focus and discipline.
4/ Physical/Mental wellbeing.
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