Jun 2025
How to Get Your First 1,000 Users
Today’s read is by one of my favorite startup creators, Lenny Rachitsky. The essay, How To Kickstart & Scale a Consumer Business, breaks down the seven proven strategies to acquire your first 1,000 users as a B2C startup. I’m going to read through each of the strategies, share so ... Show More
35m 6s
May 2024
20VC: Fundraising Wisdom that is Total BS; Dilution, Meeting Associates, Taking the Highest Price, Always Be Raising | Why Second Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College with Dan Siroker, CEO @ Limitless
<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Dan Siroker is the Co-Founder and CEO @ <a href= "https://www.limitless.ai/">Limitless</a>, a personalized AI powered by what you've seen, said, or heard. For his latest funding round, Dan took an unusual approach resulting in 1,000 preliminary off ... Show More
1h 16m
Dec 2024
3 AI app ideas that are goldmines (and how to grow them)
In this episode, I am joined by Dan Shipper, co-Founder and CEO of Every, as we explore a wide range of AI startup ideas and business opportunitiesTimestamps:00:00 - Intro
01:12 - Startup Idea 1: Advanced Voice Notes
08:59 - Startup Idea 2: N of 1: Personalized Data Science Mark ... Show More
41m 48s
Dec 2022
Austin Rief: Building Morning Brew, The Ultimate Guide to Building Newsletter Businesses, Side Hustle Ideas, & More
Episode 398: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk to Morning Brew Founder & CEO Austin Rief (@austin_rief) about building, growing and selling a newsletter valued at $75M in 5 years, whether newsletter businesses are still worth doing, how to make them succeed, a ... Show More
1h 18m
May 2024
Reaching $1M in ARR, Rising Above the Competition, and Knowing Your Purpose — ft. Tyler Denk of Beehiiv
We’re finishing off our three part series on the future of entrepreneurship.
In the episode we share today, we feature a First Time Founders episode, in which our co-host Ed chats with Tyler Denk, the cofounder and CEO of Beehiiv, a newsletter publishing and monetization platfo ... Show More
39m 59s
Jan 2025
First Time Founders with Ed Elson – How This German Founder Built The Nation’s Most Valuable Startup
Ed speaks with Alex Rinke, co-founder and co-CEO of Celonis, a process mining and intelligence company. They discuss how his management style evolved as the company scaled, the challenges facing Europe’s startup scene, and his advice for founders navigating the fundraising proces ... Show More
55m 35s
Apr 2020
#63 with Andrew Wilkinson - Buying cash-flowing internet companies, starting job boards and building no code projects
Sam (@thesamparr) and Shaan (@shaanvp) are joined today by Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson) who is the co-founder of Tiny (tinycapital.com) - the internet version of Berkshire Hathaway. Shaan also launched a newsletter version of the podcast, subscribe to it to receive startup idea ... Show More
1h 18m
Episode 65: Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) chats with Dan Siroker (@dsiroker), a serial entrepreneur who is currently the co-founder and CEO of Rewind, a personalized AI that captures everything you’ve ever seen, said, or heard. Prior, he was the co-founder and CEO of Optimizely, a $500M Martech business doing over $110M in annual revenue. In this episode ... Show More
<div dir="auto"><span class="il">Alex</span> <span class= "il">Lieberman</span> is the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Morning Brew, the cofounder of Storyarb and the host of 60 Second Startup & Founder's Journal.<br /> <br /> <span class="il">Alex</span> joins the show to d ... Show More
