Newsletter No. 11
Thibaut’s Newsletter
Fostering Entrepreneurship, Empowering Entrepreneurs
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This is a weekly newsletter of what I’ve seen or thought about the art of venturing and considered was interesting to share. My main goal is to start building a small community and a true conversation. I want to discover your own tools, techniques, thoughts and ideas. Together we are smarter; so please, comment!
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💭 Food for Thought
“The world needs more modest, linear growth companies. Please make some.” – by David Heinemeier Hansson
Hockey-stick growth is nice but it’s not a must have for all businesses. I’ve found this article from the Creator of Ruby on Rails and Founder & CTO at Basecamp useful. → link
🔧 Some useful tools
Crew, a free app that lets you manage shifts, send messages to your team (and check who actually read it), assign tasks and more. Ideal for entrepreneurs launching brick and mortars ventures requiring workers monitoring.
🚴 Personal Training
User Experience: 26 short UX video lessons from the renowned expert Luke Wroblewski → link
Note: It’s free because it’s sponsored by Intel not because not because it’s a teaser for some other content. So, just say “Thanks Luke and Intel” and take advantage of it!
Growth Hacking: Best Referral Programs - A collection of the most successful referral programs from top notch tech companies like Airbnb, Dropbox or Tesla. Brought to you by Growth Jam → link
More Growth Hacking: The advanced guide to user acquisition (by Julian Shapiro)
Written by someone who runs growth for a dozen Y Combinator startups, this up-to-date growth hacking handbook provides an agency-level proficiency in user acquisition and conversion optimization. It covers everything you need to realistically acquire users and increase on-site conversion. → link
👣 Smart people to follow
@egarbugli: B2B SaaS Entrepreneur. LeanB2B Author – because B2B use to be underrated amongst young entrepreneurs
@tristanharris: Co-founder, Center for Humane Technology. Former Google Design Ethicist – because you need to nurture a critical mind about social networks and tech
🎁 Have a nice weekend!
I saw a funny tweet this week: “Millennial is when you don’t know who Alanis Morissette is”.
Let’s make sure some more millennials are lucky enough to know Alanis’ music, don’t you think?
First you need to see this iconic song of her. And then you can see this hilarious millennial version she made a few years ago with James Corden.
And if you like her as much as I do, here are two more songs. Enjoy!