5 Great Twitter Threads for Startup Founders, January 2020
Posted on January 04, 2021
Social media consists mainly of drama, fake news and irrelevant postings. This is also the case for Twitter's startup bubble, but sometimes you can discover interesting learnings and opinions.
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I’ve gotten a lot of bad advice in my career and I see even more of it here on Twitter.
— Nick Huber (@sweatystartup) January 3, 2021
Time for a stiff drink and some truth you probably dont want to hear.
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Learnings from Zynga, creator of FarmVille
Tomorrow, Zynga shuts down FarmVille on Facebook after 11 years. I wanted to share the story of how we created it and why it has played such an important role in the evolution of gaming. 1/x
— mark pincus (@markpinc) December 31, 2020
Sharing some of the most common reasons we've passed on B2B companies at seed/pre-seed 🌱
— Robby (@amanda_robs) December 9, 2020
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On 5/29/13 (my birthday!), I filed to incorporate Palo Alto Delivery Inc., later renamed DoorDash Inc.
— Evan Charles Moore (@evancharles) December 10, 2020
It's mostly not my story to tell. But I'll share a bit today about how it started.
My goal is to give aspiring entrepreneurs a window into one founding story.
Magic metrics indicating a startup probably has product/market fit:
— Andrew Chen 🇺🇸 (@andrewchen) October 15, 2019
1) cohort retention curves that flatten (stickiness)
2) actives/reg > 25% (validates TAM)
3) power user curve showing a smile -- with a big concentration of engaged users (you grow out from this strong core)
A friend who just started a company texted me last night and asked:
— Justin Kan (@justinkan) November 12, 2020
"What's the best piece of advice you have for me?
What do you wish someone told you when you were running these companies?"
Here's what I answered
Here are the 10 lessons I learned from @wpengine 's CTO and founder @asmartbear on how to build the perfect bootstrapped/self-funded startup:
— Karim El Kaddioui 📊📈 (@_karimelk) October 15, 2020
(In chronological order from this amazing 52 min presentation at @MicroConf 2013)https://t.co/Za1SmySeVm
A thread:
— Dru Riley 📈 (@DruRly) June 1, 2020
🛠️ Trends #0017 — XaaS: Anything as a Servicehttps://t.co/5Ydv0YcEds