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#211 with Julian Shapiro - The 3 Cheat Codes Startups Use to Print Cash
mfmpod.comStartup Handbook: Landing Page Copywriting
julian.com
- Give customers a no brainer: make friction crazy low (so painless to add it, now you got exposure and you can pop out when relevant when you can provide the value you can offer them their savings and advertise a real account and take your percentage of the savings), e.g. chrome extensions like Honey, or give them money back with an economical ret... See more
Shaan Puri • #211 with Julian Shapiro - The 3 Cheat Codes Startups Use to Print Cash
It's done! I read 3,000 startup pitch decks.
I wanted to find what the incredible pitches had in common.
Was there a "secret ingredient" unifying them?
YES. The 4 best (that VCs wanted intros to) had the same talking point:
Julius Tarng — Independent Software Creative
tarng.com

Scott Belsky Talk at South Park Commons
Often designs from frustration
Right now, greater skill is being brought by compute and developing a democratization of many things (code, design, etc.). Because of this, taste will probably be the most important skill
Taste is derived from culture and overlap of industries
Because of that

Curators, Curators
It has become popular to say we live in the information age, and we need curation to help us sort through the mess. But thus far, the conversation around “curation” has been too focused on the content and not enough on the structure. We seem to have accepted the job of the curator as providing a product review, a list of links, a... See more
It has become popular to say we live in the information age, and we need curation to help us sort through the mess. But thus far, the conversation around “curation” has been too focused on the content and not enough on the structure. We seem to have accepted the job of the curator as providing a product review, a list of links, a... See more