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[Smith Startup Consulting Group @smithcollegescg]

SCGers at the diversity in blockchain panel last Thursday 🤩 thank you @ConsenSys @infura_io @CivicHall for hosting!

[Elizabeth Yin 💛 @dunkhippo33]

An entrepreneur-friend of mine referred a company to me that I thought sounded interesting. But I also commented that the sales cycle seemed long but we'll see.

Today's thread - what makes a sales cycle long? Why is it relevant to VCs? How do you even know??

Read on >>

[Kevin Lord Barry | B2B Ads Enjoyer @kevinwlordbarry]

@TrungTPhan Yep, it dwarfs TikTok, Snapshot, Pinterest, LinkedIn and Twitter combined.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

1/ Amazon is famous for its writing culture:

• "Mock press releases / FAQs" for new product pitches
• "6-page memos" instead of Powerpoint

Two former Amazon execs wrote a book called "Working Backwards" detailing the philosophy.

Here are some insights 🧵

[Aleksandr Volodarsky @volodarik]

In early days I did all our copy.

It sucked so bad. Good thing, I made friends with people who taught me how to write.

Copywriting is the #1 skill for entrepreneurs. You write emails, articles, landing pages every day, and it helps you grow.

This will 10x your copy 👇

[rahulvohra @rahulvohra]

OK this is by *FAR* the best use of GPT-3 that I have seen yet… 👏

Watch @askviable consider 60,000+ pieces of Superhuman feedback and produce an answer that is perfectly formed and accurate 🤯

Now imagine that at your scaling company 💥

Check it out: https://t.co/BHMq6ujJur

[Smith Startup Consulting Group @smithcollegescg]

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[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

A good customer segmentation is worth a thousand strategy meetings.

[VV @visualizevalue]

Stay the course.

[Evan LaPointe @evanlapointe]

Any analyst can measure and understand the measurable.

Great analysts help you measure and understand the unmeasurable.

[Suhail @Suhail]

If you really want to test user retention, log all your users out and then see if they care enough to log back in.

[Suleman "Suli" Ali @sulemanali]

The highest value lowest cost software in the world is Canva. Am i wrong?

[Smith Startup Consulting Group @smithcollegescg]

“good design is invisible” - Tina, UX Designer at @IBM and our speaker/workshop host today 🤓

[John Cowgill @JohnCowgill]

A hodgepodge thread of things founders do that I really appreciate

[Sam Parr @thesamparr]

I was just trapped in a snowstorm in a 2-bedroom apartment 72 hours with one of the most powerful venture capitalists in the world.

This person (@andrewchen) is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz

I asked them how to get rich through angel investing.

Here's what they told me...

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

1/ Steve Jobs famously said innovation is "saying no to 1000 things" before you say yes.

For more than a decade, Apple has been using a Pablo Picasso painting to drive home the lesson.

Thread 👇👇

[Youngling @RJ_Youngling]

@mkobach @noahkagan for the pragmatic stuff.

@rorysutherland to make sure you understand unorthodox ideas.

@aprildunford to understand both the why and the how of positioning.

@markritson to understand it from a formal perspective.

@ProfByron for his work on loyalty and brands.

[Kyle Tibbitts @KyleTibbitts]

First 10 startup hires co-sign the mission.
First 100 startup hires cement the culture.
First 1000 startups hires capture the value.

[J. Martin @joedmarti]

Our blog had over 1 million visits last year. 👀

Up 7x from when my team started started investing time there and with conversion rates double the industry average.

Here is what We learned. 🧵

[Shit User Story @ShitUserStory]

As a...
– Clubhouse user
I want to...
– have additional virtual meetings in my day. with people just like me
So that...
– I can reinforce my existing worldview, underpinned by the perceived exclusivity of invite-only access