Nate Wade (wipfounder.eth)

Employee ➡️ Agency Founder ➡️ SaaS Founder. Sharing the ups & downs of my journey with radical honesty as an ADD entrepreneur, husband & soon-to-be father.

[Nate Wade (wipfounder.eth) @WIPfounder]

Entrepreneurship is an exercise in truth seeking.

[Sahil Lavingia @shl]

Truth is a religion with few followers.

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

The future of online workplace collaboration isn't:

Pure synchronous - ie: Slack
Pure asynchronous - ie: email

It's asynchron-ish

Whoever marries async, sync and voice notes has a great shot at building a top 5 workplace communication app

[Nate Wade (wipfounder.eth) @WIPfounder]

The only guarantee in entrepreneurship is personal growth.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

10 Mindsets I wish I had in my 20's:

[Nate Wade (wipfounder.eth) @WIPfounder]

Tons of good advice in the comments!

[Saba Karim @sabakarimm]

1st time founders, grab some 🍿

2nd time founders, this one’s for you: What’s one thing that’s obvious to you now, that you would tell your first-time founder self.

[Nate Wade (wipfounder.eth) @WIPfounder]

@devvnomad Use it every day! This is obviously extremely helpful for refining the UX, but the downside is that I often want to implement “nice-to-have” new features that would benefit me even if they aren’t necessary for your core product.

[Nate Wade (wipfounder.eth) @WIPfounder]

Abstinence is easier than moderation.

[Nate Wade (wipfounder.eth) @WIPfounder]

This reminds me of a mind-blowing system dynamics engineering course I took in college. If there's one thing it taught me, it was to be skeptical of any model predicting exact behavior of a dynamic system.

Ceteris paribus does not apply to reality－conditions are never equal.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

A double pendulum demonstrates chaos theory, tracing its unpredictable path

The dependence on initial conditions, and sensitivity to variation is one of the fundamental properties of chaos

This is commonly referred to as "the butterfly effect,"

[Nate Wade (wipfounder.eth) @WIPfounder]

As much as I enjoyed Step'n, the gamification was working too well on me and I decided to eliminate the distraction & cash out. Still plan keep an eye on it to see if they can figure out the mechanics to avoid a total ponzi collapse, but need to focus on BUILDING not playing!

[Nate Wade (wipfounder.eth) @WIPfounder]

Been spending some weekend time on learning web3 stuff. May dive into one of these this weekend!

[Kacie Ahmed @kacieahmed]

As a web3 dev, it took me 4 months to find my first job 💰

But it can be hard to get into web3 without a strong portfolio.

Here are 4 projects you can add to your web3 portfolio in less than a week.

A thread 🧵

[Nate Wade (wipfounder.eth) @WIPfounder]

This is painfully true…

[Nate Wade (wipfounder.eth) @WIPfounder]

Love stories like this! Congrats to the successful bootstrappers!

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

Wingify turned 12 today 🎉🎂

My investment into it: $10 domain name + $10 hosting.

Today: $30mn ARR, profitable, 300+ people, proudly bootstrapped.

It is still day 1 for us, though...

[Ayush 🙏 @ayushtweetshere]

Startup founders need to see Stripe notifications somehow 🤣

[Nate Wade (wipfounder.eth) @WIPfounder]

"Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true." —Ralph Waldo Emerson via @momentumdash

[Nate Wade (wipfounder.eth) @WIPfounder]

@ZakRoyzDev Congrats on the milestone! You showed up in my feed under the startup topic, so the hashtags must be working. Your product sounds cool－I'll definitely follow along!

[Nate Wade (wipfounder.eth) @WIPfounder]

Always reassuring to remember that I'm not the only "Work in Progress"－we all are!

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

Everyone is making it up as they go.

[Nate Wade (wipfounder.eth) @WIPfounder]

Cold outreach formula to set up customer conversations

"Very Few Wizards Properly Ask" mnemonic for:
Vision
Framing
Weakness
Pedestal
Ask

Full explanation shared by @robfitz himself! https://t.co/euzmGU6Lf6

[Rob Fitzpatrick 📚 @robfitz]

@apuchitnis Cold outreach is always going to face a high rate of ignores, but I still generally rely on the book's VFWPA structure:

[Nate Wade (wipfounder.eth) @WIPfounder]

The 3 Rules of The Mom Test:

1. Talk about their life instead of your idea
2. Talk about specifics in the past instead of opinions about the future
3. Talk less, listen more

These are critical to conducting customer conversations. Like many things, still a WIP for me.

[Nate Wade (wipfounder.eth) @WIPfounder]

If it feels like they are doing you a favor by talking to you, you’re probably being too formal.

[Nate Wade (wipfounder.eth) @WIPfounder]

@zeeshaanmajeed Excited to follow along & learn from you on your journey! I'm eventually going to try to build an audience with this account, but right now just trying to establish a habit of tweeting / building in public. Best of luck!

[Nicole Behnam @NicoleBehnam]

Make this your motto. I watch this every morning.

[Nate Wade (wipfounder.eth) @WIPfounder]

Maybe you could level up to a certain point via consistency, popularity & other non-financial metrics, but to unlock higher levels or additional features, you'd have to integrate payment accts to prove earnings / share revenue.

[Nate Wade (wipfounder.eth) @WIPfounder]

Bullish on the "X-to-earn" model of web3 games.

In the same way that @Stepnofficial incentivizes users to build healthy activity habits, I am optimistic that web3 founders will find ways to reward any positive habit you desire.

(Write, build, give, serve, learn, etc.)-to-earn

[Nate Wade (wipfounder.eth) @WIPfounder]

A user could level up on the platform through popularity of content, consistency of sharing, revenue generated, etc.

If the fastest way to level up was through revenue sharing, it would give people status in return for integrating their stripe & sharing a small % of revenue.