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Launching a newsletter - a16z
Created
Oct 21, 2020 03:40 AM
Media Type
Podcasts
Lesson Type
Personal Branding
Project
Content
Property
Created by Rishabh Srivastava, Founder of Loki.ai
This summary was largely done for my own note-taking, sharing it just in case it adds more value to other people.
I have no affiliation whatsoever with anyone in this note. This is a summary largely taken for my own reference, and may contain errors :)

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Newsletter, Media

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4 people
  • Impact of Covid-19 on the black community
  • Impact of psychedelics on mental health
  • Was doing morning cartoons and wanted to share them in a safe space
  • Quit his job and started writing notes to himself which he then just started to share as a newsletter (Lenny’s letter)
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Paid v unpaid
  • If you're trying to get a source of income going, go paid. If you just want to get more opportunities and increase the surface area of serendipity, go unpaid
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Create a slack group Or WhatsApp group for paid subscribers
Twitter is a really good acquisition channel. Really good flywheel there
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