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- While You Were Away: April 24, 2022
While You Were Away: April 24, 2022
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Life
Sitting on an idea you think is genius? Others would probably agree.
Have a dream team you want to work with? They’d be lucky to have you.
Think you’d vibe with someone? I bet they’d love to meet you.
The world doesn’t know what it needs from you. It’s up to you to show it.
— Jaime Schmidt (@jaimeschmidt)
4:46 PM • Apr 23, 2022
50 Timeless @naval quotes visualised :
— Drex ⚡️ (@drex_jpg)
12:41 AM • Apr 20, 2022
7 Career Tips for your 20’s:
— Rohun ⛳️ (@RohunJauhar)
3:00 PM • Apr 18, 2022
23 sentences that will 10x your productivity:
— Ross 💡 (@THEROSSHARKNESS)
11:00 AM • Apr 18, 2022
Forget giving kids an allowance.
Pay your kids interest instead.
I'll share the system I used to engrain the power of compounding and business acumen into my kids.
Here's how it works and the results:
— Val Katayev (@ValKatayev)
2:00 PM • Apr 21, 2022
Business
11 Promises from a Manager: a 🧵
1. We’ll have a weekly 1:1. I’ll never cancel this meeting, but you can cancel it whenever you like. It’s your time.
— Matthew Rechs (@MrEchs)
12:02 PM • Apr 18, 2022
8 years ago I was selling $10 items on eBay.
Today our store makes $46,000,000+ a year and we're on track to break that in 2022... selling shoes, sweaters and shirts.
Here's what we did:
— Coleman Whitsitt (@ColemanWhitsitt)
1:07 PM • Apr 19, 2022
I asked 30 Shopify store owners making $2,000,000+
"What’s one Shopify App you can't live without?"
Here are the 10 apps every Shopify store must know 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
— Jesse Pujji (@jspujji)
5:41 PM • Apr 22, 2022
I’ve done $2M in income in 2.5 years as a solopreneur.
And I didn't write a single line of code.
My 14 "must use" no-code tools:
[🧵 thread]
— Justin Welsh (@JustinSaaS)
4:44 PM • Apr 19, 2022
I’ve advised hundreds of course creators.
And seen every mistake in the book.
Here are 9 mistakes new course creators make (and how you can avoid them):
— Wes Kao 🏛 (@wes_kao)
3:00 PM • Apr 23, 2022
The 15 best FREE investing resources on the internet:
— Brian Feroldi (🧠,📈) (@BrianFeroldi)
12:13 PM • Apr 23, 2022
From sleeping on a gym floor to selling a company for $50M (in just 3 years).
Meet Alex Hormozi —gym bro turned entrepreneur/author.
I just plowed through his book, video course, & YT channel.
Here are 6 lessons for creating a service business that actually scales.
👇 http— Shane Martin (@Shane___Martin)
2:57 PM • Apr 23, 2022
I built a six-figure sports content company, but made a million mistakes along the way.
If I was starting again from scratch (in any niche) with a $0 budget, here's what I'd do:
A tactical 8-step approach for building a business in today's Creator Economy🧵
— Joe Holka (@JoeHolka)
3:59 PM • Apr 21, 2022
Over the next 18 months, we will see an unprecedented number of startups that will shutdown, conduct layoffs, and close down rounds.
Here is an overly simplified deep dive:
— Michael Karnjanaprakorn (@mikekarnj)
2:30 PM • Apr 19, 2022
Web3
The internet used to be an escape from reality
Now, reality is an escape from the internet
— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg)
12:21 PM • Apr 23, 2022
Coinbase NFT and ENS are about to completely flip the script.
I found recent smart contract deployments with some crazy details.
L2 + counterfactual wallet season is here... (1/x) 🥐
— croissant (@CroissantEth)
6:57 PM • Apr 23, 2022
Entertainment / Sports
My favorite sports business story involves two brothers turning $1 million into $800 million as basketball team owners without ever actually owning an NBA team.
It's a masterclass in leverage, long-term thinking, and the power of equity & ownership.
Here's the WILD story 👇 http
— Joe Pompliano (@JoePompliano)
2:18 PM • Apr 23, 2022
A 147 foot steamship, a straw hat, and an ingenious plan.
That's what it took for Robert Smalls to execute the most improbable, heroic escape from slavery to freedom the world may have ever seen.
The story:
— David Zabinsky (@DavidZabinsky)
1:48 PM • Apr 19, 2022
Let's Talk About Big League Money...
A look behind the scenes at the financial reality of @MLB players:
— Cory Gearrin (@CoryGearrin)
4:07 PM • Apr 21, 2022