A few times a month I offer 30 minutes of free help & support to anyone who needs it. Ask me anything, bounce an idea off me, request feedback for 30 minutes 1:1 online.

Using a new platform so details on why you want to connect go a long way.

pickmybrain.world/profiles/faiza…

Last year, I taught a 4-week long course about the creator economy ⁠— covering history of the industry, creators as businesses, web3, future predictions, & more.

Now, all of the videos & materials from that course are available to everyone for free! 📚

creatoreconomycourse.xyz

That fact that kids are spending $100k+ and 4 years to learn entrepreneurship from professors that have never started a business is literally the biggest scam of all time.

We will fix this!!!! Entre 📈

Today I joined Draper Startup House Accelerator May Cohort Demo Day.

The pitches were awesome.

There I found about @pickmybrain4 and found it very interesting.

Naval Ravikant is one of the most respected investors of our time.

He credits reading 1-2 hours per day as the main reason he's been so successful.

Here are 20 books Naval recommends reading:

That's why I use pickmybrain.world/profiles/alan-…

Extremely thought provoking essay

'being 'for-profit' is a skeuomorphic mode of operation, and leads to a local optima [...] The nature of the medium of token ownership and unstoppability means we no longer need to extract profits to realize value creation.'

The most successful founders I've met are usually not just builders; they're breakers. Breakers of traditions, rules, and/or legacy practices.

Both building & breaking are often necessary for real industry change.

As hard as it is, being a startup founder is an awesome job to have.

If your family doesn't think you're crazy, are you even a startup founder?

My 2021 income streams:

• video course: $78,620
• cohort course: $79,285
• ebook: $16,952
• cutting boards: $4,495
• membership: $29,895
• freelancing: $120,000
• affiliate sales: $2,020
• saas: $4,582

revenue: $335,849
profit: $304,498

🤳 Creator startups will continue to rise.

The pandemic shook loose a wave of creators and social-media influencers who abandoned their corporate jobs and became their own bosses.

This shift has driven demand for tools that help them make a living.

businessinsider.com/tech-trends-ve…

Music monetization on the internet is unquestionably broken. With a payout of $0.003 per song stream, a musician needs 6 million plays annually to earn $18,000.

I'm so excited to support sound.xyz (🎧,🎧) in their quest to let 1M artists live off their music, leveraging NFTs & web3.

The best startups are driven by a single, laser-like focus.

This is the website of a $50B company.

Yours doesn't have to be perfect. Just ship it.

Gmail has 1.8Bn users and this is what it looks like!

If you sell a subscription for $10/mo, and you add just 1 net new customer per day...

After 5 years:
- you'd have made $547K.
- you'd be making $18K/month in recurring revenue.

Possible as a one-person business. No need to dominate the market. No need to disrupt anything.

Instead of solving market failures or fixing problems that are clear, visionary Founders push market evolution. Azeem Azhar and James Currier explain how Founders can push society to the upward bend of the exponential technology curve
bit.ly/3vrC9hc

This looks like a permanent shift, and a really big one too. From 30% to almost 80% just like that. A change on this scale is bound to have all sorts of interesting consequences.

They may struggle at first. You may wonder if it's worth it.

But if you consistently do this, your employees will become sharper and more independent.

Invest the time to train your team--or burn a few hours every day to correct their work forever.

The choice is yours.