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Interesting week for me.
As I look back on the progress I have made coding, and sharpening my technical skills, I look forward and see that I need to balance getting thiings out the door and getting things done.
Option 1: Double down on the existing site and explore paid ads
Option 2: Redesign the site
Option 3: Redesign the site and Shopify
Design
Dantley Davis | Revision Path
Interesting interview from Dantley Davis (previously at FB and now a VP of design at Twitter) talking about some of the features that everybody requests on Twitter
The controversy of accessible type - Queer Design Club - Medium
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Insights
How startups such as Dropbox, Airbnb, Groupon and others acquired their first users. : Entrepreneur
The whole point of this is to look at what successful startups did, and see if we can apply it to our own marketing. If all else fails, do direct sales and hustle it in the early days to get your first 100 customers💪
Dropbox going from 5000 to 75,000 wait-list signups in one night
How reddit and Quora got past the chicken and egg problem of having no content / users
Foursquare
Groupon started with a local MVP
Tinder
Airbnb used another platform [Craigslist] to get early users
Takeaway
Get personal with your audience.
Effortlessly create Video-forms that are 10x more personal.
I spoke about this back in September, VIDEOASK is now so you can get more personal with your audience using video.
Create and schedule Instagram Stories comfortably from your desktop pc
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Makers
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Culture Chat
UK Black Business Show (@ukbbshow) • Instagram photos and videos
This week was the UKBBShow with lots of entreprenurial talks. Catch some of the highlights here
Black Business Boom - Black Owned Business, Coupons
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