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Initiator Creator - Issue 140
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Initiator Creator - Issue #140 - ( Read in browser ) By Saurabh Y. // 28 April 2024 Entrepreneur The Not So Cookie-Cutter Approach to Company Building — 8 Lessons from Zapier - FirstRound Wade Foster, founder and CEO of Zapier, shares his contrarian takes on building a billion-dollar company — from fundraising advice, go-to-market strategy, and hiring mistakes. How to make an impact in your first 90 days - Lenny's newsletter 25 quick wins from top leaders at Ramp, Canva, HubSpot, Wiz, Google Gemini, Dropbox, and more Testing Business Ideas: The Ultimate Validation Experiments Library - Product Compass Everything the Product Manager needs to validate hypotheses about value, usability, viability, and feasibility. How to Do Hard Things - Every A therapy practice helped me face my struggles as a founder We found PMF. Here were the signs - CommandBar People make product-market-fit seem like this mythical thing you can pinpoint to an exact moment, but it’s never that. MarketerHow Dovetail Grows - Product Growth The story of Dovetail is the story of PLG itself: a obsessive focus on the end user, a commitment to making the product as accessible and valuable as possible, and a belief that if you build something truly great, the rest will follow. How to build an online community around your content - Ghost Use this six-step process to build a digital group your members will love. Reddit's growth to 1 billion monthly users, explained - Substack This unprecedented growth has led marketing experts to view Reddit as a formidable competitor to the likes of Wikipedia, YouTube, and even Amazon in certain high-value commercial searches. Reverse Trials - Substack Companies often find themselves wrestling with the choice between offering a Trial or adopting a Freemium model. My take? Opt for neither, because Reverse Trials are simply.. better. Developer 8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story - Wired They met by chance, got hooked on an idea, and wrote the “Transformers” paper—the most consequential tech breakthrough in recent history. Meta and Open - Stratechery Meta isn’t just licensing Horizon OS, it is also opening up the allowable app model. Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges) - Pragmatic Engineer Bluesky is built by around 10 engineers, and has amassed 5 million users since publicly launching in February this year. A deep dive into novel design decisions, moving off AWS, and more. A Gentle Introduction to CRDTs - VLCN Conflict Free Replicated Data types (CRDTs) can be tricky. You may spend months reading papers and implementing different algorithms before they finally click and become simple. Latency numbers every frontend developer should know - Vercel A frontend take on Jeff Dean's "Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know". Designer Drams - Framer components inspired by Dieter Rams' principles - Framer Drams is a platform where Framer components meet Dieter Rams' timeless design ethos and principles. Ethics in times of growth design - Doc when the market is contracting, the focus drastically shifts to optimization: how we can make the most, or squeeze the most, from the market base we already have. This extreme focus on marginal growth is when designers are pushed to the limit 3 Models for Framing Software Complexity - Better by Design Using 37 Signals' visual metaphors to strategically approach software projects. Wedges — Open-source UI components for React by Lemon Squeezy - Lemon Squeezy Beautiful UI components for React, lovingly crafted with the Wedges Design System, Radix UI, and Tailwind CSS. How to generate color palettes for design systems - Matthew Strom It represents not just a technical solution but a philosophical shift in how we think about color in design systems, emphasizing the balance between creativity and inclusivity. Interesting Read The Tyranny of Job Titles: From Vanity Growth to Personal Growth - Ness Labs People end up doing what will look good rather than what’s actually good. 4 Things About Anger Everyone Should Know - The Friendly Mind four surprising facts about anger and how they can help you deal with your anger better by changing the way you think about and respond to it. Why Hope Is Different Than Optimism - Yes Magazine In conversation, “hope” and “optimism” can often be used as synonyms. But there’s an important gap between them, as psychology research suggests. Community Submissions If you like to share a project or article with the rest of the readers then please DM me at @ICforpreneurs or hit reply Outro 🙏Thank you for reading Initiator Creator issue #140 Forward to a Peer and let them know where they can subscribe Initiator Creator. Want to get featured? Submit an article for us to include or hit reply. Anything else? Hit reply to send us feedback, review or say hello. |
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