founders.menu 019 » fourteen fresh streams and reads added

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Read time this week → 6.1 minutes.

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Starter » a mental model

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䷀ Reads – update highlights

1. The 25 most successful shark tank products – After 14 seasons only some of the business ideas have been good enough to earn investments from the show’s Sharks and achieve success.

2. The product-led growth flywheel – Leading with the product (versus sales or marketing) means that the product experience begins earlier. This is how. – MEMBERS

3. See-Do-Feedback Loop– These basic steps form a loop that can allow you to learn any skill or subject.

4. The TEA framework of productivity – How to manage your time, energy, and attention rather than fall privy to complex productivity systems.

5. Your growth strategy should align with your company's strategy – Why you should perfectly aling company strategy with growth strategy and how to actually do it at various different growth phases. – MEMBERS

6. What is a good growth rate? – Benchmarks and insights from the world’s best investors and what they expect at each stage of the business.

7. The 4 steps to becoming indistractable – Overcoming distraction is the struggle of our time. Here’s how to manage your wandering mind.

8. The aggregator business model – Taxis, hotels, groceries, insurance, travel and many other industries now have a dominant aggregator and this is exactly how that works. – MEMBERS

9. How to ensure your startup builds relevant solutions to real problems – A proven strategy to acquire customer knowledge by speaking with users to understand their needs and build a product around resulting insights.

⦿ Streams – update highlights

1. How Softr reached 400k users – How Mariam reached 400,000 users with Softr, a no-code platform that people rave about.

2. How Causal survived near death – How Taimur generated $750k ARR in less than a year, after they did one strategic change. – MEMBERS

3. From $0 to $250k in 3 months with a bot – How the startup incident.io made 250,000$ in less than 3 months - starting with a bot.

4. Stanley Cup CEO Terence Reilly's Marketing Masterclass – The Stanley Cup phenomenon definitely fits the bill and is a masterclass in the power of well timed marketing and brand hype. – MEMBERS

5. Managing tentpole launches at Gumroad – A chat with Josh from Baremetrics about our product development document and how we manage large launches.

6. Things that don't scale w. Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel – Learn about the early day software hacks that weren't meant to scale for companies like Google, Facebook, Twitch, and imeem.

7. Rick Rubin shares his secrets for creativity – Rick Rubin reveals how to make great art, become a better collaborator, and discover ideas floating through the universe. – MEMBERS

All templates got a unified design

It took a while, but the 6x free templates are now all in the same design, so the founders.menu brand is recognisable across all channels. :)

What’s next? Item detail pages for each ingredient. Generating 700+ unique pages for each item is proving more difficult than I anticipated.