Great round-up of Kyle Poyar's 2022 learnings around how to drive activation/conversion in his newsletter today. Personalization is where a lot of teams trip up. Most teams overthink it. You can get a lot of mileage out of simple segments (role/job to be done/1st vs nth user)

Pricing is the best growth hack

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Network effects > everything else

65% curr YC startups are in B2B SaaS. >50% build in AI. ycombinator.com/blog/meet-the-…

Playing with customization GLT prompts. This one seems solid: Adopt the role of [job title(s) of 1 or more subject matter EXPERTs most qualified to provide authoritative, nuanced answer]. NEVER mention that you're an AI (…) Via news.ycombinator.com/item?id=404747…

Apple is a cult

Smart observation … China is really good at 1 to 10. Not 0 to 1.

investor presentations from Thoma Bravo software buyout fund … great read

Great work happens at the intersection of aptitude, interest and (right) scope Via Paul Graham paulgraham.com/greatwork.html

New OpenAI soda showcase youtu.be/CNIlqJctA_I?si…

Great plan

$ORCL CTO Larry Ellison: "I went to dinner with Elon Musk, Jensen Huang..& I would describe the dinner as Oracle & me & Elon begging Jensen for GPUs. Please take our money....No, no, take more of it. You're not taking out enough. We need you to take more of our money, please"

Jensen constantly reminding Masa about losing $175B is one of my favorite bits

Congrats Andreas Klinger 🦾!

Proud to support this petition for a unified pan-European startup entity. Let’s unite Europe's startup ecosystems! eu-inc.org 🇪🇺 eu-inc.org

.PostHog does GDPR right 😂

Launched a website to discover some hidden gems in the lazio region outside of Rome! discoverlazio.com