Happy holidays from our team at BlueChilli + Future Minds Accelerator +SheStarts! 🕎🎄🎁 We hope you all have a well-deserved break and quality time with your friends and family. We're signing off until the new year, so we'll see you again in 2022!

8 mental models to master startups:

1/ Over the holidays, I went DEEP into the metaverse, writing a 26 page manifesto to outline the landscape & opportunities!💡 Think digital worlds, NFTs, big tech vs. startups, etc. Here's my "Metaverse 101", published on Mirror. Let's dive in ⬇️ mirror.xyz/themeaganloyst…

I gathered the best business tools for startups. Save 100+ hours researching. A thread:

If you're a student interested in both technology and startups and wondering how to combine them, the answer is: serially. Focus entirely on technology at first. Then once you're an expert in some technology (which will take several years), you can start to think about startups.

Startup founders love to skip steps 👀

WATCH: A drone designed by Australian startup AirSeed Technology aims to combat deforestation by planting millions of trees a year from the air

We're back! We hope you all had a beautiful holiday and new year, and we're so grateful for your love and support. New year, new adventures, and we can't wait to get stuck into it 🥳 SheStarts Future Minds Accelerator StartupU.io

My best startup advice: 1. Find an under-appreciated problem 2. Build the simplest way to solve it 3. Expand the market 4. Find the next adjacent problem 5. Repeat step 2-4 forever

Where Were Unicorn Founders Born? New result on immigrants & US economy For 1,078 founders of 500 US unicorns, I identified founders' countries of birth. Conclusion: Over four out of ten unicorn founders are first gen immigrants. Stanford Graduate School of Business #startups #immigration #unicorn

VC: What's the tech behind your 10 mins delivery app? Startup founder:

Marketing your startup with SEO: 1) Get the basics right - Title, meta, h1s, h2s - Page speed - Mobile responsive 2) Build domain authority - Write guest posts - Submit to directories - Launch on free platforms 3) Keyword focused blogs - Low difficulty - Low volume - Long tail

6-Month Personal MBA (Book List): Month 1 • Strategy: Zero to One • Entrepreneurship: The Lean Startup Month 2 • Accounting: Financial Intelligence • Per. Finance: I Will Teach You to Be Rich Month 3 • Marketing: 22 Laws of Marketing • Operations: The Goal

There are 5.14 billion Google results for "how to build a startup." Most are a waste of time. Here are 5 that are pure gold:

Join AfterWork Ventures for a panel discussion with founders of fast scaling companies to hear all about the highlights, low lights, pain points and advice they have for other founders on the path to scale. buff.ly/3C602jr

Want to go big? Start small. Yesterday’s chat with a founder… 10am: Stuck in a long sales cycle with multiple major sports leagues, so I suggested he reach out to smaller clubs. 3pm: Secured a pilot with the local rugby team for this Saturday’s finals. First things first.

EPISODE 1 OUT NOW ❕ Check out our first episode of PEP TALKS with triiyo where our CEO and founder, Rebecca Grainger speaks with Co-CEO of @SingularityU Australia, Christina Gerakiteys about the Future of Work. youtu.be/mBfUwJxzlhA

no founder has all three: • a life • 2 years of runway • parents who know what they do

Genius idea! A turkish startup invented a technology which generates electricity from oncoming traffic ⚡🙌

I’ve grown a 72k+ following on TikTok, generate ~$10k a month in side income, and work with some of my favorite brands all in roughly 6 months of posting. Here are the 5 things I would recommend every person getting started creating content (for personal or startup) to do👇🏻