Aspiring Startup Founder Notes
What Are The Most Important Metrics for a SAAS Company?
From my notes on the Y-Combinator talk by Anu Hariharan #LearnInPublic #LearnByWriting 🚨 tl;dr: SAAS company growth is best measured through MRR (monthly recurring revenue), ARR
What Enterprise-Sales Metrics Do Investors Care About Most?
From my notes on the Y-Combinator talk by Anu Hariharan #LearnInPublic #LearnByWriting 🚨 tl;dr: An enterprise model for a startup means that your startup is
How to Talk to Users
I recently watched this talk by Eric Migicovsky at Y-Combinator on how to talk to users. Here are my notes. 👾 Initial thoughts from Sean
Startup Growth
Four Questions to Ask When Evaluating a Startup Idea
What problem am I trying to solve? This is the place all startups um…start. If you are building a startup you are solving a problem–it’s
Gamify Your Startup to Motivate Your Team
A secret weapon to get your team passionate about their jobs The promise of metrics has failed We all want our companies to be data-driven.
The Most Important Growth Marketing Principle: Restraint
Warren Buffet once gave somewhat contrarian advice to the pilot of his private plane. The pilot had been talking about his career goals and Warren
Stoicism, Mind, & Behavior
Why people fail at making big life changes
Personal change has two parts, but we only pay attention to one Behavior vs Evaluation Let’s say you want to change something about yourself. You
This Popular Marcus Aurelius Quote Is Idiotic
If this article is coming up for you at all I have no doubt you have seen this quote before. “Waste no more time arguing
Why You Should Hope Your Dreams Don’t Come True
“Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather, wish that everything happens as it actually will” — Epictetus For those
Concepts & Mental Models
If You Want to Persuade, Frame Things as Experience
Think about a purchase that has improved your life in a significant way. For me, it’s my Boston Terrier pup Octavian. The experiences I’ve had
Horns of Dilemma: Using a False Dichotomy to Create the Illusion of Choice
Whichever way you turn, you get gored “A man is an angel that has become deranged, Joe Fernwright thought. Once they — all of them
Everything Else
Boiled Potato Diet
In a study dating all the way back to 1995, called “A Satiety Index of Common Foods,” dozens of different foods were compared to see
Are Californians mistakenly thinking of COVID-19 risk like a wildfire?
Here in California, we are no strangers to wildfires. It’s perfectly normal for several of our massive forests to turn into blazing infernos and rampage
Handbooks & Frameworks
How to make friends as an adult
A short handbook from someone who is awful at making friends When I originally wrote this, I had no intention of publishing it. Instead, my
Books
Thinking in Bets
Thinking in Bets, by Annie Duke One sentence summary of this book All decisions are bets with something on the line, thinking of them as
Don’t Shoot the Dog: The Art of Teaching and Training
Full Title: Don’t Shoot the Dog: The Art of Teaching and Training, The Secrets to Changing Behavior in Pets, Kids, and Yourself. Author: Karen Pryor