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Your In-Person Growth Strategy
For early growth, in-person hustle beats digital scale. Here’s how to make it count.
Attention Pie (Therefore or But)
Your customer’s attention is finite — this helps you frame your messaging so it earns its slice.
The Bus Exercise
A practical interview prompt that reveals how painful a customer problem really is — and how urgently they need help.
Using AI for Cold Email Feedback
A walkthrough of how to use AI tools to improve cold email structure, tone, and clarity — without losing your voice.
The FAQ Prompt
A dead-simple prompt for clarifying your product messaging: what do people ask before they buy?
How to Message Your Price
Pricing is about more than numbers — it’s about what story your price tells and how confident you are in it.
Choosing People + Shahla
A story from the streets of NYC about the right way to speak to your customers. Spoiler alert: It’s all about specificity.
Practical Loss Aversion
Most customers hate losing more than they like winning. Use that to shape copy, pricing, and your pitch.
The Language of Problems
Customers speak in problems, not solutions — here’s how to tune your ear to what they’re really telling you.
How Easy is it to Make a Decision?
If customers aren’t buying, it might not be the product — it might be how hard you’ve made it to say “yes.”
A Killer Marketing Technique to Build Trust
Trust comes from clarity and empathy; this approach helps you communicate both in a way that customers feel instantly.
Only Speak to People Who Already Get The Joke
Don’t waste time convincing skeptics. Build for the believers and watch your momentum multiply.
Cold Email Breakdown Using Thrust + Drag
Deconstructing a cold email with a startup lens: what moves a reader forward, and what slows them down.
How to Stay Irresistible
The secret to staying top-of-mind with customers? Relentlessly solving one clear, emotional pain point.
Making Cold Emails Feel Less Gross
A fresh mindset and structure for cold outreach that actually feels human — and gets replies.
Anti-Marketing
A playful but powerful thought exercise on how not to market your startup — so you can do the opposite.
A Killer Cold Email
What made one cold email irresistible — and how you can reverse engineer its structure for your own outreach.
Why Will Your Customer Share?
Most people share things to signal who they are—not just because something’s useful. Here’s how to build with that in mind.
A Prime Day Thought (feat. Sharks w/ Lasers)
A playful take on made-up holidays, artificial urgency, and how startups can borrow a page from Amazon’s hype playbook.