Director @buildersbackers AI & BizOps 🤖 || Helping entrepreneurs increase their odds of success || Purveyor of the highest quality paternal humor 🙄
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Courtney Baker retweeted
Cool new tech alert! Turn your kids' toys into storybooks with @storybooks_app. Check it out: producthunt.com/posts/toy-st…. Happy to have supported this via @buildersbackers!
👏 keep up the good work @stepocampbell_
We’ve gotten a lot of “NO’s” so it gets lonely but these moments make it worth it
Hit $3k MRR for the first time @TinyAcquisition
🤯 🤯 🤯 this looks like pure wizardry
Say hello to your new virtual assistant: Coda AI.
✨ Summarize meeting notes & transcripts in a snap.
✨ Quickly prep for customer calls.
✨ Whatever you dream up – it’s stackable with Coda’s other building blocks like tables, controls, text, & formulas.
bit.ly/coda-ai
Courtney Baker retweeted
Update: I bought my 16 yr old son a tiny e-comm biz on Microacquire.
He and I spend about 8 hrs per wk working on biz together (after school/wknds).
Purchase price: $10k on Jan 1, 2023
Revenue in 22: $6k
Revenue YTD already: $6200
Profit YTD: $1400
Experience: Priceless
This 👇 it’s never been easier (and cheaper) to learn something new. Use some ingenuity and a little $ to upskill into a new job or a side hustle.
I'm super proud of our team and all the Builders we've been able to help this year. It's truly amazing to see the persistence, ingenuity, and creativity of everyone that made the commitment to build something new. Looking forward to 2023!
Today we, our partners @HeartlandFwd & many local partners, are celebrating the hundreds of Builders we've worked w/ in 2022 & the over $1M 🎉in #funding that has seeded the launch of more than 100 ventures 💪.
Read more here: bit.ly/1Min2022
#letsgetstarted
“Football is life!” good luck @USMNT
Huge product update and a much (imho) better approach than trying to build out this functionality internally.
We're excited to announce our new in-editor @Zapier integration!
Easily create new Zaps to connect your custom Adalo app to over 5,000 tools and services. Learn more at hubs.ly/Q01sBPz60
#nocode #Zapier #automation
Courtney Baker retweeted
We've helped over 300 Builders go from idea to venture. Why not you next?!
📢 Applications now open for the Idea Accelerator Winter '23 cohort in partnership w/ @HeartlandFwd! 90 day, virtual #accelerator w/ up for $5K in #funding. Get the details here: bit.ly/applyW23
Courtney Baker retweeted
It struck me last night: why would you use a "database" like Xano over Airtable in your NoCode projects? The simple answer is that Xano is not a database!
The more complete answer is below so if you're curious, and you should be, read on...
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Next time someone says to you “That’s the way we’ve always done it” think of this.
Italian cyclist Michael Guerra uses his knowledge of physics and aerodynamics to adopt a “plank” position and overtake his competitors.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This video is a staged marketing stunt from 2017, arranged by the Italian fixed-gear bike shop Dafne Fixed. The technique is real (and impressive) but this is not an actual bike race as the tweet might be construed to imply.
Original video: youtube.com/watch?v=3Iz7ZM…
2017 article: bicycling.com/news/a20030642…
Courtney Baker retweeted
What does the recession mean for leading a venture, raising cash, and VC funding in a recession? I've done it twice (dot-com crash & 2008 great recession). Here are my top 10 takeaways.
Courtney Baker retweeted
We've kicked off our Fall 2022 Idea Accelerator cohort! Today's turnout was fantastic,with so much support from our phenomenal partners like @HeartlandFwd, & tons of engagement from our great new Builders. We're thrilled to support you for the next 90 days as you test your ideas!
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🎉 We're thrilled & honored to be a Round 2 winner of the #CatalyzeChallenge! We’re joining groundbreaking innovators transforming education for young people through #CareerConnectedLearning.
Read more about it: forbes.com/sites/dereknewton…
Courtney Baker retweeted
Every founder that can't raise a pre-seed so they can work full time, every single one that can't find a co-founder, each one that can't find mentors to guide them is a failure of the community, not the founder. We blame the plants too often, and don't look at the soil enough.
Courtney Baker retweeted
As head of marketing at Gusto I shifted us from "growth at all costs" to profitable growth.
ARR grew 100x in 4 yrs while CAC <12 mos.
Now every company is asked to do the same.
I shared how we did it in a recent talk to @ycombinator & @sequoia founders.
Here's the summary:
Courtney Baker retweeted
#NoCode tip:
🤔 How to decide what to spend your time building?
1. Think in experiments to conduct, product emerges as a result of many experiments
Doing small experiments is less risky, low scope and you learn something always if you start with a question you want to explore.