TL;DR 5 newsletters that have made me a better marketer: 1/ Marketing Brew 2/ Marketing Millennials 3/ Good Content 4/ Demand Curve 5/ Kevan Lee

Marketing also needs goals that promote long-term thinking. This creates tension with sales sometimes. But if marketing only focuses on short-term revenue it will be much harder to hit more aggressive goals 6 months from now. You have to feed the funnel today to win tomorrow.

“When a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born—and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.” – Anne Lamott

Matt Mochary has been CEO coach to Naval, the founders of OpenAI, Notion, Rippling, Robinhood, Coinbase, Reddit, Plaid, Flexport, Opendoor, partners at Sequoia, YC, Benchmark, and many others. He also open-sourced his entire curriculum, templates and all. Here's a link 👇

Happening later today 👇 Would love to see you there!

Reply with a link to what you’re working on and I’ll say something nice about it. Building things is hard. You deserve a pat on the back.

The 2022 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

Pinterest’s annual trend reports are grounded in what 445M MAUs are searching for (and planning). They claim 80% of their past predictions have come true in three years 🔮 Here’s their forecast for 2023 ⬇️

Got to talk about one of my favorite things (brand) with one of the best in the business (Pe:p Laja)! 🍿🍿🍿

Bootstrapping a software company is the best way to build wealth. Jason Cohen has bootstrapped 4 software companies from 0 to $1+ million in revenue. Two are now worth $1+ billion. Here's his exact plan to self-fund startups:

every internet person should read these words by steven pressfield

Just a few notes to myself (a driven & ambitious person): 1) Kings are overrated and usually unhappy. It is much better to be kingmaker. 2) Eventually, everyone realizes that they don’t want to be Elon Musk or Steve Jobs. How quickly do you want to get there? 3) Legacy is

Congrats Emily Kramer & Kathleen Estreich 🎉 You’ve built something amazing here. I can’t wait to see where it goes next and am so grateful to be along for the ride!

It's FINALLY book launch day 😅🎊 As of writing the Kindle / e-reader is $1 so it's an easy grab (and read and review 😆) We are ridiculously grateful + humbled at the idea of this thing being in the world. If you're new a little backstory + why you might want to grab it👇

It’s my birthday. I’m 37 and I have some things I’d like to share, in no particular order. 1. No one thinks about you more than you do. That thing from two years ago that keeps you up at night? No one else remembers. Honor the memory and let it go.

Today's the day! Kevan Lee 👋 and I are officially launching Bonfire: content, coaching, and consulting for creatives and brand marketers...with goodies to come in the future! It'd mean a lot if you gave us a look and subscribed to our newsletter! aroundthebonfire.com