I don't know who needs to hear this but establishing a community is the king of all marketing tips.

When VCs brag about an exit in their portfolio

Smart people use simple language.

Poor marketing talks about features.
Good marketing talks about what the features solve.
Great marketing talks about the impact of the features' solution.

How marketing and sales will be completely changed with the Metaverse? A thread 🧵

Your startup needs these four things to be successful:

1. Solution to a painful problem
2. Viable business model
3. Great story
4. Amazing team

The future is now old man

Your customers don’t care what tech stack your startup is built on you know. Sell solutions to problems, not software.

We've reached a point in stock market history where the general public produces better research material on companies than finance institutions

Most of the glossy research reports are full of utter BS consulting jargon - there is so much more to learn from the Twitter threads

10 must-use tools & platforms for young startups:

A THREAD
#threadsbyAP

In 30 years, what’s something people will look back on and realize we got completely wrong?

Nigerian artist Abdulrahman Yusuf used to sell his work online, but in May he was introduced to NFTs, which he said presented ‘life-changing opportunities’ and has increased the number of pieces he can sell at higher prices reut.rs/3bTGWyK

There was a special combination of optimism, excitement, camaraderie, exploration, frontier, speed, and knowing a shared secret that existed in the startup community of 2005-2012.

It has been dormant for a long time.

Nice to see it again in the web3 community.

A startup needs to start up many times before it eventually succeeds.

MSCHF bought an original Andy Warhol for $20,000 and made 999 exact forgeries.

They mixed the original in and sold 1,000 pieces that *might be a real Warhol* for $250 each.

That’s $250k 🤌🏼

Here's what they did:

Dumbest things to do right now:

(1) study for an MBA
(2) hate on web3 startups
(3) trust FB
(4) ignore news about China
(5) think brands are for “influencers”
(6) not owning anything you work on

10 Best Books for Entrepreneurs

1. Hooked
2. Rework
3. Principles
4. Zero to One
5. Start With Why
6. The Lean Startup
7. Rich Dad, Poor Dad
8. The 4-Hour Workweek
9. Thinking, Fast and Slow
10. How to Win Friends and Influence Them

What would you add?

Chrome is used by 2.65 BILLION people.

That's ~56% of all internet users. You're probably one of them.

95% of my job is done inside Chrome. So a few years back, I learned 6 hotkeys to use Chrome FASTER.

Here they are 👇

The Ethiopian bible is the oldest and most complete bible on earth.

They were written on goat skin in the early Ethiopian language of Ge’ez. It is also World’s first illustrated Christian Bible.