👊 Domi's favourite Things - Issue #43

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Servus Friends, 👊

last week I talked about how set your Sales Pitch to a winning Direction, in the “killing them softly” Issue. 🔫

Today we looking into where Unicorn Founders come from & made off. 🦄

In the Social Corner we turning this Time to Content Star Sahil Bloom and gather some Insides of Stanford University.

So keep on growing…

The Things we are digging in Today:

1. 🦄 How to invent an Unicorn-Founder 👩‍💼

2. 🦺 Domi’s „Building in Public“: 🚀 A 7-Step-Playbook 👨‍💻

3. #Twitter-Box: 🥽 An inside View of Stanford University 🎓

4. #Domi's favourite 5 - Random Space Edition 🌌

# 1 - 🦄 How to invent an Unicorn-Founder 👩‍💼

Where are great Founders coming from and what Ways of Life they have behind them are two important Questions in Entrepreneurial Research.

The Following Link is a virtual Journey into the rich Backgrounds of diverse Founders with a +1 Billion Hit.

But why is this maybe something of your interest, you may ask?

Because it can help you to keep focused and follow your Ideas, Ventures and Career with a longterm Mindset.

Many of us thinks probably, that you need to be a Harvard or Cambridge like Guy with some Finance Experience and rich Parents…

But this cool interactive Research shows you the Truth. Founders are most likely from every Walks of Life. They are as diverse as Humanity. (But we need definitely more Woman there 👸)

So enjoy the Unicorn-Ride… 🦄

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Again, this shows that you need to be patient. Many successful Founders started their Ventures in their late 30’s and many of them don’t have an “elite” CV.

It’s more all about Grit.

# 2 - 🦺 Domi’s „Building in Public“: 🚀 A 7-Step-Playbook 👨‍💻

Welcome to my Public Building Section. This is where you can sit next to me in the first Coach of the Rollercoaster and learn with me together…

The following Post is a great Start-Strategy for all of you, which also want to start a Newsletter. Then I read that, I immediately got reminded that a Strategy don’t need well planed out Milestone-Plans and the alike…

Just focus on the important Stuff and bring some “Extras” on not everyone would do to drive their Growth.

Alex Brogan did all of this already and is reaching Thousands of People with his Content.

Here are his “Extra”-Pro-Tips in a nutshell:

• Send a personal email thanking your first 100 subscribers for signing up and asking them to share your Newsletter with 1x other person.

• Provide a special incentive for being one of the first [x] subscribers (a 1:1 call, giveaway, digital product, etc.).

• Create a lead magnet (like a short email course or downloadable PDF asset) that’s EXTRA valuable in exchange for people’s emails.

Reminds me the Y-Combinator-Mantra: “Do Things which don’t Scale”.

Here’s the Link to the full Article…

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Another Guy with Loads of Reach is talking about Lead Magnets. We really should dive deeper into this Topic together.

And I think the “Shorts”-Tactic together with a strong Lead Magnet can work wonders.

So stay tuned till next Issue.

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What can be a great Lead Magnet for you? Means what Stuff can I deliver for you that has a lot of Value for you?

Please send me your Ideas by just replying to this Email… 👊

#Twitter-Box: 🥽 An inside View of Stanford University 🎓

Paying 200k for getting into Stanford is not affordable for everyone of us. (or thinking of getting a Loan out in this Magnitude 💶)

But looking behind the Doors of Places like this, can make some of us curious. So meet Sahil Bloom. A strong Content-Creator, Entrepreneur and Investor.

Sahil showed an interesting Approach, in how to start your Career after University. He grow with his Business-Content so big, that he now offers a range of Courses and made enough Money to start investing and fuelling his own Ventures.

Recently Sahil went for his 10-Year Stanford-Reunion and came back with his Lessons he learned during this Time.

And I think we all can get a inside View behind how Stanford Classes and how they evolve.

Enjoy the Thread…

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But again. I repeat that often. In Business general no-one cares about where you learned your Stuff. As long as you deliver you will be successful.

The only Advantage you may get from the Ivey League is Access to a high Status-Network. (and a big Loan on your Money-life)

#Domi's favourite 5 - Random Space Edition 🌌

Here are my most interesting Reads and Vids of last Week:

• Medium.com: NPS is a waste of time use these metrics instead

• Running Lean: Start with Premium Before Freemium

• HBR Guide YT: What is psychological Safety

• Smart Bear: Excuse me, is there a problem?

• ESA.int: Euclid's first images (Off-Topic but really cool)

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Meme of the Week

What da F**k… Childhood-Dreams can come True! 🧸

🤣😂 Thanks for reading the 43th Issue.

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