lol marketers at a competitor are going through likes on my tweets to onboard new users.

- if they have time to do this, inbound volume must be low
- have to admire the hustle
- really poor quality cold email

This is from a well-known company as well!

So validating 😍 Lol now received messages from multiple people that also got the same email. At least they’re consistent?

Also they’re using fake names as far as I can tell. Even grosser.

Linktree and other social media aggregators banned, links out to other social networks banned, including username for other profiles banned.

What a mess The real losers here though are link in bio startups

They’ve always had platform risk built-in, but they are going to have their valuation cut down heavily after this move

This is red wedding bad for that industry

A step change has happened in modern software design.

Google Docs is dead.
Powerpoint is dead.
Gmail is dead.

Old, large companies are being disrupted by newer, UX driven companies.

Here's a list of every startup replacing an existing large company and executing perfectly. Linear replaces Jira.

The fastest app I've every used and incredibly intuitive.
linear.app

Founders @karrisaarinen @jorilallo @artman

I just finished fundraising for @sendwithloops ahead of YC’s demo day.

Here are the unfiltered lessons I learned about raising money for an early stage startup.

This is a series of notes and observations from dozens of calls with some of the best investors in the world. Stagger your cap. This is a bit of a secret. I talked to a handful founders fundraising right now that didn’t even know this was an option.

Here’s how it works:
1. Start fundraising for a preseed/seed round at a certain cap, 10m-15m is pretty common with web2 B2B SaaS

I have designed apps used by hundreds of thousands.

But, I'm not a designer. 🤷

I just realized that UX > UI.

So we don’t have a style guide @sendwithloops and instead we have a growing list of UX principles that apply to our entire app.

Here they are: Principle 1
Color is a distraction. If you can’t get it to work in black, white and grays, color isn’t the fix, it’s a crutch.

I almost don’t want to mention this tool, because it's so awesome and unknown, but here we go.

It's a free and easy way to scrape Reddit, Hacker News and other sites for real-time mentions of your competitors or brand keywords.

Here’s how I use it and how you can too 🧵 First - the app looks like it's from the dial up era.

With that said, it works more consistently than most apps I pay for monthly.

Here's the pitch 👇

There’s one type of ad all the most successful B2B SaaS companies are using but nobody talks about.

✅ Easy to create (no designer needed)
✅ They work cross-network (Facebook + Instagram)

And I’ve used them at two companies for a low CAC + high engagement.

Here they are 🧵 First, a little background.

Facebook used to be incredibly strict on including text on your images.

They had an automated system that blocked you from uploading images with really any text showing on an image unless it was minuscule.

This *used* to be their stance

Last week we doubled our conversion rate for organic AND paid users.

We didn't change our ad creative or offer deals.

Here's how I did it. 🧵 First, we sent out an email asking for feedback to all existing free users.

I borrowed this template from @randfish

I noticed a trend 📈

All of my favorite tools have one thing in common. It's likely your favorite apps do as well.

Here's what @notion @figma @slack are all on the same page about. 👇 First, let's agree you want to accomplish these 4 things if you're running a SaaS.

👥 Gain leads at an efficient cost

📉 Manage churn

🔁 Find a scalable method of revenue growth

🌊 Build a moat

So how do you get there?

Here's the list of all my favorite software tools made for *any* budget.

How?

They're all free. 💸

Here's my list of daily free tools I use to grow multiple companies to millions in revenue 👇 Productivity tools:
@notionhq - manage your business
@SlackHQ - chat with coworkers
@WhimsicalPowers - wireframes + flow charts
Google Slides - pretty presentations

Now that my family is getting involved in #BTC I feel like it’s important to remind everyone that this large increase in price is orchestrated by Binance.

The same thing that happened in 2017 is happening now.

Here’s why you need to bail on Bitcoin 👇 In 2017 BTC had a meteoric rise that was fueled by retail investors.

Just kidding, it was fueled by Binance, a crypto exchange that was pumping up the value by “printing” Tether, another crypto that is *supposed to be* backed 1:1 by the US Dollar.

Spoiler, it’s not.