Now that the funding party is over, here are a few things funded founders can actually learn from bootstrapped counterparts 🧵

PS: this isn't about funded "VS" bootstrapped - but a few learnings (rather, attributes) that will surely help you in the journey. 1. Storytelling!= building business.

It helps set momentum in the early days (esp fundraising), but your customers just don't care.

They want to solve a pain.

Here is how to monetize twitter (as a subscription business).

Twitter has many half-finished / standalone features and it's time to bring them together @elonmusk @Jason

/start 🧵 1. Tweetdeck (most obvious)

Make it 'the' platform for consumption and creation.

Consumption: Pro users experience ad-free. as simple as that.

Creation: Borrow ideas from typefully and others who are doing a great job focusing on creators.

So I moved to Android few weeks back to experience the new new Bharat apps and here is what I am observing : many founders are building (like in 2015) product for VCs - vernacular, AI, WhatsApp friendly, audio etc. That is all the key buzzwords. But.. But..most of these are more of a "let me stuff every damn shit" and raise funding. Notes to these founders: maybe try to solve for the end user. VCs move from theme to theme, party to party. And unless you have anything meaningful, scaling up content is meaningless. Have..