🚀 Learn By Doing

Your curated guide for weekly entrepreneurial stories, insights, and perspectives.

🎙️ Interviews & Discussions

Engaging Insights with Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla delves into AI and the venture landscape with industry stalwarts at the All-In Summit. A lively discussion with David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Friedberg, and Jason Calacanis awaits you.

Unmasking Impostor Syndrome: A Deep Dive
Explore the realm of impostor syndrome alongside the intriguing concept of The Great LARP. Uncover the internal perspectives that fuel self-doubt and the narrative of living a role-play.

SaaS Strategy Saga: A Decade-long Journey
Embark on a narrative of evolving SaaS product strategies over 11 years, unfolding the metamorphosis from a single-product entity to a multi-product powerhouse. Traverse through the phases of ideation, market fit pursuit, and the intricate dance of prioritization in the matured stages.

Developer to CEO: The Chronosphere Chronicle
Venture into the narrative of a developer's ascent to the role of CEO in the realm of Chronosphere. Embrace the transition, the challenges, and the newfound perspectives that steer the helm of a burgeoning enterprise.

✍️ Personal Reflections

🔧 Tech Insights

GitHub Copilot's Expensive Journey
Discover the cost of innovating AI through GitHub Copilot. Despite its popularity among 1.5 million coders, the financial toll hints at a pricier future for AI-powered coding.

v0 Generative UI: Unveiling A New Dawn
Vercel's v0 reimagines website creation by blending generative AI with frontend development best practices. As it transitions from Alpha to Beta, it opens up to more users, revealing subscription plans aimed at aiding developers in crafting the first iteration of their products effortlessly.

Slack's Asynchronous Job Jugglery
Slack's backend is a bustling hub, processing billions of jobs daily with a peak rate of 33,000 jobs per second. Transitioning from Redis to Apache Kafka, the revamped architecture now sails smoothly through the scaling storms.

✍️ Product Development

Embedding Documentation in Development
Unlock the essence of effective documentation within the product development lifecycle. Delve into three contrasting models that elucidate the interaction between engineering and documentation teams, each with its unique advantages and pitfalls.

Navigating Tailwind CSS: A Path to Order
Embark on a journey to prevent chaos in your Tailwind CSS project. Explore the realms of design systems and component-based approaches to keep your code organized and maintainable as it grows.

Crafting a Launch: A Marketer's Playbook
Dive into the nuanced world of product launches with Kevan Lee's insightful frameworks. Uncover tiered strategies that navigate through the varying magnitudes of product launches, ensuring your message resonates every time.

📊 Marketing Strategies

Backlink Brilliance: The SEO Gold Standard
Embark on a quest to discover what makes a backlink truly valuable in the SEO realm. Uncover the seven hallmarks of superior backlinks that can propel your site's ranking skyward.

Harnessing Data for SaaS Packaging Prowess
Dive into the realm of data-driven strategies to elevate your SaaS product packaging. Discover how leveraging data can finely tune your packaging approach, enhancing value proposition and customer allure.

💼 Industry Insights

Atlassian and Loom: A Discounted Union
Atlassian's acquisition of video messaging startup Loom, once valued at $1.5 billion, comes at a notable discount of $975 million. Despite a decrease in venture capital and a shift from remote work, Atlassian still finds value in Loom's video solution, indicating a strategic move in a changing market landscape.

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