founders.menu 023 » speed vs. quality of outcome startup tradeoff

Happy Sunday. ☼

Read time this week → 5.3 minutes.

A warm welcome to the new subscribers who got a template, an account or signed up directly for the founders.menu newsletter – it’s great to have you!

Starter » take bite-sized action

This week, I want to take you to the core purpose of this newsletter and nudge you a little reminder to open founders.menu the next time you are a little unsure about an action you need to take or a decision you need to make. Then, follow the steps in the X post I’ve outlined. Depending on the startup stage you are at, the type of content you desire and the search attributes you type, you can get very granular with filtering the database – you won’t regret it. ↓

The ultimate hack I can recommend is to pin founders.menu to the top of Arc, making it easy to click for immediate access to the ingredients in this growing database – I do this multiple times a day and it’s super helpful. :)

Main course » founders.menu update

䷀ Reads – 5x update highlights

• ICED Theory to grow an infrequent product → The strategies & mapping tool for managing the degree of infrequency a user experiences.

• A better model for valuing startup equity → How to ensure that there is some probability of an IPO and that your stock won’t expire before it happens. – MEMBERS ONLY

• Creating an idea development system → A custom process for going from idea to blog post as a form of idea development.

• The skill learning curve → How to think about learning new skills for, everything from sports to business to cooking to art.

• What makes writing more readable → An examination of translating text to make it as accessible as possible. – MEMBERS ONLY

⦿ Streams – 5x update highlights

• Building a niche $200K MRR agency → Lessons from Ryan Stacey, Founder of Tridas to focus on a niche to find success as an Agency. – MEMBERS ONLY

• Advice from a billion-dollar valuation fitness startup founder → How Will Ahmed built a company at 22 that is now valued at $3.6 BILLION in just 10 years.

• Before the startup → A legendary talk by Paul Graham on how to master the counterintuitive nature of startup founding.

• How to instantly improve your writing → Why you should "always write with an eraser", a simple framework to instantly improve your writing. – MEMBERS ONLY

• How Visualize Value built a $1M brand in 18 months → Jack Butcher & Ross Drakes discuss what it took to create a $1m business, from scratch, in under two years.

What’s next? Curate the design category and release item detail pages.