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Postcards From Timbuktu
Postcards From Timbuktu is a website where you can order a real, hand-crafted postcard sent from Timbuktu in Mali 🇲🇱 The Washington Post did a great write-up on it a year ago. The average salary in Mali is only $80/month, and locals earn about $3 per postcard, crucial income during the pandemic especially. I love finding simple,…
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Tiny tool, 1 million visitors a month
Jonathan Berger writes about the side project he started 10 years ago: this simple time zone converter tool. Traffic has grown organically over time and now Jonathan reports the tool getting 1 million visitors a month 🤯 It’s monetized with one Google AdSense banner at the bottom of the page. Referencing a couple of AdSense calculators, those 1 million…
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Instagram marketing just got easier
Instagram recently announced that they will allow anyone on their platform to include links 🔗 in their Stories. Darko writes that this makes influencer and affiliate marketing on Instagram a whole lot easier… Do you know any Instagram influencers that your target audience follows? If so, chances are (especially if you’re in a smaller market) that many of those people…
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Self-taught Coder, $1 Million Business
Andrew Burnett-Thompson details how he taught himself to code and started a software business in his spare time. The business is SciChart. Andrew would get up early and work on it before his day job – while his wife and baby slept – and during his daily train commute. He had his MVP built in ~5 months…
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$4000/month Online Coworking
Online coworking community for founders, 120 members, $4000/month revenue. Easy to replicate by targeting local areas, demographics, or shared interests. Check out Founders Cafe for inspiration.
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Fired from job, now makes $95k/month
Fired from job, turned $95k/mo side project. “Meat Grinder Approach” for idea validation. Tough questions: Can I make it? Will it be sustainable? Am I the right person?
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Business ideas inspired by VCs
Jakob Greenfield analyzes recent top VC investments in AI, fintech, and healthcare. Opportunities include cryptocurrency, analytics, and biotech startups, while e-learning, mobile apps, and social networks are less favored.
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How to grow a YouTube channel (new blueprint)
Paddy Galloway with a 10-minute breakdown of how YouTuber Beluga recently gained 4 million subscribers in only 3 months 🚀… Beluga has pretty much discovered the new blueprint for how to grow a YouTube channel. He used the 3-step system to beat the algorithm. Quick summary of those 3 steps: Btw, if you’re a YouTube creator/marketer, definitely follow Paddy…
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14 months to $5,000 MRR
Rauno Metsa writes: I picked a random set of 20 startups built by solo founders in the range of $5,000-$40,000 MRR and looked at how quickly they reached the initial $5,000/month revenue… We see that it took a median of 14 months to reach $5,000 MRR. Rauno points out that many of those founders had tried…
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$300k/month Gmail extension
Ajay Goel built GMass for personalized email campaigns after an unsuccessful venture. Launched with less than $10k, now makes $300k/month.
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Listen to the Future
Two recent episodes on the Tim Ferriss podcast that will give you better foresight 🔮 than most… And a couple of Twitter threads from Chris Dixon worth checking out:
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$8,000 to $5.7 billion in ~400 days
Morning Brew reports on a crypto wallet that bought about $8000 worth of $SHIB in August last year… It’s now worth $5.7 billion. From $8,000 to $5.7 billion in roughly 400 days. We may actually be looking at the greatest individual trade of all time. Sounds to me like someone who could afford to lose $8000…
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$285,000/month Danish newsletter
Launched in 2015, Føljeton offers several Danish-language email newsletters. They have 30,000+ subscribers each paying around $9.50 per month, which works out to $285,000 monthly revenue. Even more impressive when you consider that there are only ~6 million Danish speakers in the world, a pretty small market 🇩🇰 Føljeton is just one of several examples of six-figure newsletters in…
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$1000/month part-time transcriptionist
👉 10-minute interview with Joanna Norman of NormanTranscription.com… Joanna shares how much she earns as a transcriptionist and how others can get started. Her hourly rate works out to $12 to $30 per hour, depending on the job. Might not sound like much, but 17 hours a week at $15/hour gets you to $1000 each month. And there…
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2 streamers, 1 day, $3B in sales
Chinese livestreamers are making billions selling products in live streams. The trend is growing in the US. Consider starting a livestream selling platform or partnering with influencers for sales.
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