• start with a specific goal, say, $10k monthly profit
• make a list of all projects you're working on and all ideas you have
• break down what it would take to reach your goal with each idea/project
• assess how realistic each option is

(examples below) Say you're offering a productized service for a one-time fee of $49 with little potential for return customers.

($10,000/month) / ($49/order) = 200 orders/month

How realistic is it that you bring in 200 fresh customers each month? (Very hard imo)

I put all 5000+ Google Maps business categories into Google Trends to see what kind of local businesses are taking off right now.

Here are surprising 5 trends that caught my eye: A wine storage facility is a place where wine can be safely stored, often in a climate-controlled environment.

So while interest in self-storage facilities is declining, more specialized businesses are growing nicely.

Yesterday I spent 5 hours studying trends and brainstorming business ideas.

Here are 8 amazing ideas, frameworks, and trends (that you probably haven’t heard of): 💡 Who's building the 'Glassdoor for Online Lodging'?

Any negative review runs the risk of damaging AirBnB. It's much easier to just keep making money off of the bad host and ignore negative experiences.

There are also certain "cheat codes" hosts use to get bad reviews deleted.

Creativity is a superpower.

But most people suck at it because no one ever told them that it’s something you learn.

Here are 8 actionable frameworks to level up your creativity: 1. Imitiate before your innovate

You don’t learn a new musical instrument by writing your own songs.

You learn other people’s songs. Then you develop your own voice using the patterns you noticed in copying others.

The same is true in any creative endeavor.

Love this.

Most people who write about productivity do not adhere to the prescriptions they shout into the void.

So there’s absolutely no reason to feel bad if your routine looks different or you have no real system at all.

https://twitter.com/nateliason/status/1556737045845970945

😊 Link to the post:

jakobgreenfeld.com/insight-porn

9 immutable laws of online entrepreneurship: Law 1: Categories converge.

Categories tend to converge on value props, features, messaging, and even design over time.

It’s why every SaaS website or ecom store looks exactly the same.

To break out, you need to reinvent yourself on a consistent cycle.

Cheat, Pray, Work: How to win the attention game

- a thread If you analyze successful Twitter accounts, you will notice that they all seem to have 5-10 accounts that will immediately engage with any tweet they post.

Your entrepreneurial success depends crucially on your understanding of a handful of key concepts.

But even though everyone has heard these terms, most don't really know what they mean.

Here are 9 core concepts every founder needs to understand: OPERATIONS

Tactics are individual actions. Operations is the coordination of tactics over time.

Operational skills are essential for every entrepreneur: scheduling, planning things out, communicating, checking and making adjustments periodically, etc.

SaaS businesses with unhappy users are a goldmine for savvy entrepreneurs.

Here's how to find them and what I learned researching 15,000+ businesses: Two days ago I saw a tweet by @GaelBreton mentioning how searches for “Ahrefs Alternatives” are skyrocketing right now.

https://twitter.com/GaelBreton/status/1534425318903238657

The fastest way to level up as an entrepreneur is to upload actionable frameworks directly to your brain.

But most of these golden nuggets are frustratingly hard to find.

Here are 10 startup frameworks I repeatedly find useful: UNFAIR ADVANTAGES

Your skills, network, insights, interests, self-image, wealth, but also your location, and the languages you speak are essential factors for the kind of opportunities that are available to you.

The key is to accept this and leverage what you have optimally.

Running thread of my favorite entrepreneurial content.

(Nothing but earned insights, deep profiles, and frameworks.) Context:

https://twitter.com/jakobgreenfeld/status/1507011469124124679

The secret to making friends is to always have some kind event planned you can invite people to. @JordanHarbinger regularly plans escape room events in his hometown and when he attends conferences.

People love getting invited to these since they're so much more fun than a regular dinner where everyone just sits awkwardly on a long table.

Running thread of examples that prove that money is truly everywhere:

https://twitter.com/jakobgreenfeld/status/1379745701329002496

Why the common advice to "focus on finding product/market fit" is misleading and what to focus on instead.

(Hint: it's not product/market/founder fit.)

//THREAD People in the startup world love to emphasize just how important it is for startups to find product/market fit.

In the words of VC Marc Andreessen it’s “the only thing that matters for a new startup”.

But what does product-market fit really mean?

The Resistance is a force everyone experiences that is trying to stop us from achieveing our goals.

Small mindset shifts that help me overcome it: Even if it ends up helping just one person, it's totally worth it.

All of my big successes had one thing in common:

I acted without asking for permission.

Here's the story of how a tiny mindset shift unlocked a whole new world of opportunities.

//THREAD There are people who always seek permission for everything. You know, the ones who even ask “Hey can I ask you a question?”.

And on the other hand, we have people who operate permissionless.

Their maxim is that it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

You have to pick a game before you can win.

And it’s not as simple as deciding “I want to be an entrepreneur instead of getting a regular job”.

Here's why: For example:

• startup founders
• saas entrepreneurs
• serial micro-tool founders
• niche site builders
• newsletter writers
• Twitter gurus
• agency owners

all play very different games.

Had a small epiphany today.

There are exactly three kinds of entrepreneurial content I find useful:

• Earned Insights. (I did X. Here's what I learned.)
• Deep Profiles. (He/She/They did X. Here's how.)
• Pattern Matching. (Here's how to make sense of X.)

Examples below 👇 Earned Insights Examples:

• Two years of building products by @alexwestoco (alexwest.co/two_years)
• I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea by @tomjcleveland (blog.tjcx.me/p/40k-fantasti…)
• Reflecting on My Failure by @shl (sahillavingia.com/reflecting)

On Monday I saw a newsletter with the list below and someone commented "this is what the news always should look like".

So I wrote a little script that compiles a daily newsletter just like that: newspredictions.substack.com/p/news-predict… Data comes from Metaculus.com, a site dedicated to generating predictions about future real-world events by aggregating the collective wisdom of its participants.

The newsletter includes the top 10 predictions with the biggest changes during the past 24 hours.

Sahil Bloom grew from 0 to 500k followers in less than two years.

This allowed him to quit his job and he's now at 5x what he was making as a VC.

Here's everything I learned about how he operates his personal flywheel: Idea Generation

People always ask him: “How do you write something every week? How do you not run out of things?"

His secret?

A well-oiled content engine.