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Robin Vander Heyden explains them all, with pros, cons and examples. Shortlist: Have a read through the full article and you may get some ideas for your own business 💡 Also, Robin’s a good follow on Twitter.

This morning I was browsing around for updates on GPT-3, the latest and greatest in artificial intelligence 🤖 On the plus side, folks have been using GPT-3 to write the lyrics to a decent country song and script out a weird short film. And here’s a fascinating website that scans your face and estimates your age, gender, BMI and beauty score 😍……

Speaking of cross-promotion, a Redditor reveals that it was one of several strategies that worked well for growing this fashion account on Instagram 📈 He writes: Is it still possible to grow any account to almost 200k followers in a year? Sure it is. There’s nothing that’s stopping you. The growth strategies I wrote about here aren’t difficult to copy.…

Klear just released some insights from a survey of 4850 Instagram Influencers. Here’s the PDF. Main thing there is how much Instagrammers charge according to the size of their audience… Other insights from the survey: Note that the survey is a pretty small sample size – by one measure there are more than 500,000 active influencers on…

With another US election coming up, I was reminded of how Airbnb funded their early startup back in 2008. It was the run-up to the Obama-McCain election, and the founders of Airbnb were $20k in credit card debt trying to get their idea off the ground. And then, as Honey Copy tells it… The Airbnb squad…

Here’s a PDF of Jeff Bezos’ 1997 letter to shareholders. Remarkable how prescient Bezos was, just three years after starting Amazon and four years before the company would have its first profitable quarter. Two parts of the letter that jump out to me… Because of our emphasis on the long term, we may make decisions…

The day you understand this framework, is the day you learned marketing. Strong words there from Shaan Puri, but it is a key marketing concept, best explained with this image I posted to Twitter. That’s one of twelve “frameworks every entrepreneur should learn” that Shaan shared on a recent episode of the My First Million podcast. Lots…

BBC.com reports on the rise of virtual YouTubers, aka VTubers, especially in Japan 🇯🇵 The most popular VTuber channel has grown from 200k subs last December to almost 3 million today. The most watched video on that channel is a music video by a VTuber named Kizuna AI, with 14 million views… Social Blade estimates the channel is earning as…