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Tom Brady’s Mantra
43-year old Tom Brady won his 7th Super Bowl last weekend 🏈 CNBC Make It notes that Brady has frequently turned to a book called The Four Agreements to help him perform at an elite level. The four agreements are… Brady has referred to the second one as “kind of a mantra for my life.” From the book……
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The 100th Video of MKBHD
Check out this 2009 video from YouTuber MKBHD… It was his 100th video, in which he notes that he has managed to build his channel to “70-ish subscribers.” Today MKBHD has 13.6 million subscribers and earns an estimated $193k per month 💰 These things don’t happen overnight.
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MVPs of Billion Dollar Companies
Ryan Gum shows the first versions of products that turned into billion dollar companies… My favorite… The Zappos MVP was a fake e-commerce store. Nick Swinmurn took photos of shoes from his local mall and uploaded them to a website. When a customer purchased, he went back to the store, bought the shoes, and sent them…
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MetaHuman Creator
MetaHuman Creator is a digital animation tool that lets you create realistic human characters in less than an hour. Opportunities include CGI in entertainment, virtual influencers, and personalized digital avatars.
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The Key To Being Successful
Marc Randolph is best known as the co-founder and first CEO of Netflix. He’s also started a bunch of other companies, including one that sold to Google for $2.6 billion in 2019 😎 His words during a recent podcast interview… I’ve realized that the key to being successful is not how good your ideas are. It’s…
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His Online Course Made $6,622 in 5 Days
Preetam Nath recently launched an SEO course that earned him almost $7k in five days. Read his blog post if you’re thinking to create an online course yourself. We’ve previously profiled Preetam, breaking down how he co-founded SuperLemon, a WhatsApp plugin for Shopify stores that generates $29,000 in monthly revenue 💰 One of the key things…
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How To Do Cold Outreach Right
Shaan Puri tells the story of how his cousin hustled and got connected with Chamath Palihapitiya, “a billionaire Silicon Valley venture capitalist.” Basically the cousin heard mention that Chamath might run for governor of California, so he found someone to build a quick one-page campaign website and sent it to Chamath. They wakeup in the morning…
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Growth Hacking on Snapchat
Some insight into how one creator has earned almost $3 million via Snapchat’s Spotlight (basically their version of TikTok)… Spotlight, in what was most likely an attempt to drive traffic away from competition posed by TikTok and its creator fund, declared it would splurge a daily ONE MILLION DOLLARS between the most popular and highest rated…
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$10K/Month Affiliate Marketing in Dutch and German
Every so often I hear from non-native English speakers asking if you can make good money doing affiliate marketing in other languages. From now on, I’ll refer them to this 40-minute interview with Nigel Hooijmans… The highlights…
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Bootstrapped a SaaS to $10k MRR
Jon Yongfook launched Bannerbear in Sept 2019 and recently hit $10,000 monthly recurring revenue 🤑 Bannerbear is software that “helps you auto-generate social media visuals, ecommerce banners, dynamic email images and more with API and integrations.” Even if that means nothing to you, it’s worth reading Jon’s story. It illustrates well the rollercoaster ride of building a…
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WTF is Bitcoin anyway?
If you don’t really get the whole Bitcoin thing, or you’re just curious to know more about it, definitely check out this 3-hour podcast deep-dive from the guys at Acquired. As they say in their intro, Bitcoin is officially the best investment of all-time, with 3,000,000x appreciation over the last 12 years. Meaning a $350 investment…
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“Pain In The Ass” = Opportunity
Summary: Article by Charles Ngo discusses the importance of friction in advertising, changing distribution channels, and 4 channels to watch in 2021, including unexpected options for Gen Z.
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Paid Research Studies
Check these 30 places to find legit (and well paying) paid research studies and focus group opportunities. Including best inside and outside the USA.
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Passive Income Website Has Earned $100,000+
The site is foboko.com. Type in a word and it gives you example sentences containing that word. Works for several languages. Monetized with display ads. The owner of the site shares in this YouTube video how he built and launched the site in 6 weeks back in 2016, including his clever hack for generating the sentences 😎 More info…
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New Website, 7 days, 1 Million Page views
Sean Markey registered FlattenTheCurve.com, collaborated with a public health expert, and hit 1 million page views in a week. Partnering with experts can lead to impactful projects.
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