My SaaS business hit $1,500 MRR and then got stuck.
Until I learned an important trick…
Here’s the exact method I used to scale to $100k MRR in the next 12 months:
Trung Phan managed to grow his Twitter following by 300k in just one year.
I spent 10 hours studying how he did it.
Here's everything I learned.
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Sahil Lavingia — From Web 2.1 to Web 3 - Infinite Loops
In this episode of Infinite Loops we have Sahil Lavingia with us. Sahil is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, and author of the book “The Minimalist Entrepreneur”. The rise, and fall, and rise of Gumroad Physical vs. Digital Communities Befriending...
Is Binance Smart Chain Being Run 'Like the Project of a Stoned Teenager?' Two BSC Execs Answer - Unchained
Binance Smart Chain is the third largest chain by TVL and its token, BNB, is the third-largest token by market capitalization. However, there are questions about hacks, centralization, lack of developer support, and sketch MEV transactions. On...
How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
The book is spectacular. It was a bestseller in the UK and was featured in a 6 part series in The Guardian. The format of the book is a bit unusual, instead of chapters it is made up of 20 Montaigne style essays that discuss the man from a variety of different perspectives. Montaigne was a man obsessed with figuring himself out — why he thought the way he did, how he could find happiness, his fetishes, his near-death experiences. He lived in tumultuous times too and he coped by looking inward. We’re lucky he did, and we can do the same.
Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (Revised)
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius are treasured today--as they have been over the centuries--as an inexhaustible source of wisdom. And as one of the three most important expressions of Stoicism, this is an essential text for everyone interested in ancient religion and philosophy. Yet the clarity and ease of the work's
One of the most important images I've seen.The difference between happiness, meaning, and true psychological richness.From research by @ErinWestgate pic.twitter.com/tsvU1PuYOp— Julian Shapiro (@Julian) January 16, 2022
TikTok and Instagram act as the 'top of funnel' for a lot of aspiring YouTube creators.Every creator eventually pushes their fans and viewers to YouTube.— Blake Robbins (@blakeir) January 12, 2022
Leadership is not boasting about what you know. It's having the confidence to admit what you don't know.You don't need to assure people that you have all the answers. They just want to know that you're committed to finding a solution—and capable of guiding a group toward it. pic.twitter.com/C0PqKcX0Je— Adam Grant (@AdamMGrant) January 11, 2022
From afar, we admire talent. Up close, what counts most is character.You can impress people with your skills, but you earn their trust by standing for something greater than yourself.There is no higher achievement than treating others kindly and living with integrity.— Adam Grant (@AdamMGrant) January 10, 2022
"I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found." Kurt Vonnegut— Ryan Holiday (@RyanHoliday) January 10, 2022
Wanna know the struggles of streaming over other jobs? I left for less than 48 hours and lost 40,000 subscribers on twitch. I’ll be back today (Wednesday) grinding again.
Frederik Gieschen — Learning and Failing in Public - Infinite Loops
Frederik is the author of the “Neckar’s Insecurity Analysis” newsletter where he writes about great investors, innovators, masters of the inner game. We talk about: Trying to “fit in” The Great Reshuffle Destroying your ideas and starting...
Dr. David Sinclair: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging | Episode 52 - Huberman Lab
In this episode, I am joined by Dr. David Sinclair, tenured Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and an expert researcher in the field of longevity. Dr. Sinclair is also the author of the book Lifespan: Why We Age & Why We Don't Have...
Amazon.com: The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less: 9780593192399: Lavingia, Sahil: Books
Stay scrappy - This is a concept I got from The Minimalist Entrepreneur: have a strong bias towards action and just getting stuff done, no matter how successful you get. The bigger my YouTube business gets, the easier it’s been to go into perfectionist mode and agonise over every little thing because ‘the stakes are higher’. I’m trying to recapture that scrappy mentality I had at the beginning.
Fun-fact: In designing the comments on Reddit, I decided to make people automatically upvote their own comments because it felt so sad immediately seeing "0" and because I figured people would do it anyway.— Alexis Ohanian 7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣ (@alexisohanian) January 8, 2022
The power of creators & community:The YouTubers Logan Paul and KSI, who have a combined 125M followers across social platforms, launched a Gatorade competitor called Prime.Within a few days, Prime has 558K Instagram followers—already half of Gatorade's following. pic.twitter.com/XwbH0mfrXT— Rex Woodbury (@rex_woodbury) January 7, 2022
Pixar's storytelling framework:Once upon a time, there was ___.Every day, ___.One day ___.Because of that, ___.Because of that, ___.Until finally ___.Whether you're a writer, an entrepreneur, or a brand, you can use this "story spine" to effortlessly create a narrative.— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) January 7, 2022
The more you write, the larger your library grows, the wider your web stretches on the Internet, the easier it becomes to attract the readers you desire.— Nicolas Cole (@Nicolascole77) January 6, 2022
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition: Edwards, Betty: 9781585429202: Amazon.com: Books
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition [Edwards, Betty] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition