Initiator Creator - Issue #145 - ( Read in browser ) By Saurabh Y. // 23 Nov 2024 Presented by NorthPoll This Week's Notes:Content-rich designs looks more convincing I just love how Basecamp's landing page looks and feel. Looks more like a blog post than a conventional landing page that we all are used to seeing. But nowadays I started seeing more such designs popping up. like "Noto time" or "letsjelly" website. All of them feel more convincing than the traditional sectional-style landing...
almost 2 years ago • 3 min read
Initiator Creator - Issue #144 - ( Read in browser ) By Saurabh Y. // 10 Nov 2024 Entrepreneur The new era of AI business models - Substack So far, two main business models have emerged that AI companies are leveraging. How to Navigate Product Discovery Like a Map - Tim herbig Instead of rigid processes, think of Discovery as a path you navigate. Rethinking the startup MVP: Building a competitive product - Linear Today's Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is often about building a better version of...
almost 2 years ago • 3 min read
Initiator Creator - Issue #143 - ( Read in browser ) By Saurabh Y. // 27 Oct 2024 Presented by NorthPoll This Week's Notes:Building a product for this Newsletter It was kind of scratching your own itch. I had this problem but didn't find the most suitable product to cover my needs, so I took some time off from this newsletter (if you didn't notice, the last issue was released five months back) and built a product that I wanted. Especially, for the sole purpose of collecting feedback from my...
almost 2 years ago • 4 min read
Initiator Creator - Issue #142 - ( Read in browser ) By Saurabh Y. // 19 May 2024 Presented by DesignThingy This Week's Notes:Make GTM Strategy for Yourself GTM or Go-to-market strategy is quite a popular term among product teams, startups, and businesses, used to determine the strategy of taking the product into the market. In a time when many of us losing jobs or are trying to get into new roles it becomes more important than ever to stand out of the crowd and find your place. As GTM is...
over 2 years ago • 4 min read
Initiator Creator - Issue #141 - ( Read in browser ) By Saurabh Y. // 5 May 2024 Presented by DesignThingy This Week's Notes:Airtable View is the New Standard To be honest, before Airtable came along, working with spreadsheets was dull, pale, and uninspiring. They were just rows and columns of boring data. But Airtable shook things up by making tabular data interactive, easy to use, and visually appealing. Airtable's emergence has transformed the relational database scenery, setting a new...
over 2 years ago • 4 min read
Initiator Creator - Issue #140 - ( Read in browser ) By Saurabh Y. // 28 April 2024 Presented by DesignThingy This Week's Notes:Directionless bull All our efforts get wasted when we get stuck in the cycle of directionless efforts to get better outcomes. A directionless effort is a bigger blunder than a wrong-direction approach. After all, you can’t say which direction is good or bad without reaching the outcomes, but changing your direction frequently will take you nowhere. You will be lost...
over 2 years ago • 4 min read
Initiator Creator - Issue #139 - ( Read in browser ) By Saurabh Y. // 21 April 2024 Presented by DesignThingy This Week's Notes: Ever-increasing Paradigm of Microsites The traditional concept of microsites is elegantly straightforward: build highly specialized small websites to target niche audiences for lead generation, sales, and brand visibility. Mainly utilized by companies, particularly for marketing (esp. engineering as marketing). These microsites are usually free tools, tailored to...
over 2 years ago • 4 min read
Initiator Creator - Issue #138 By Saurabh Y. // 17 March 2024 Presented by DesignThingy This Week's Notes: Phase II Starts Here This week's issue came 22 weeks after the last issue, a lot of things have changed. The purpose of the Initiator Creator was not clear from the start. Some of you know about and tested the tools that we created last year but we dropped all of them without releasing them for you all because of the poor market fit. After taking a long break and spending my time...
over 2 years ago • 5 min read
Initiator Creator - Issue #137 By Saurabh Y. // 08 October 2023 Entrepreneur Mediocre Success Is Worse Than Outright Failure - Every Avoid the messy middle and aim for unambiguous results You Can't Hack Product Positioning - Felicis This problem is acute in SaaS where it is exceedingly rare for there to be true product moats; many startups end up competing on distribution and positioning. Big Tech’s Biggest Bets - Matthew Ball Or What It Takes to Build a Billion-User Platform Next-gen content...
almost 3 years ago • 3 min read