📶 Summer Reading: The best startup / investor content we read over the past three months

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I'm taking work off this week, so we're going with a slightly different content structure.

Here are the best things we've read over the summer.

Hopefully something in here makes you see the world more clearly.

Best things we read:

🧠 10 lessons from a decade of vertical software investing

➡️ Takeaways from roasting 200 landing pages

👨‍💻 2022 state of independent SaaS

📈 ConvertKit shares all of their SaaS metrics publicly 

💲 11 strategies to level up your pricing

📶 Growth tools, predictions, and opportunities

🎯 Great SaaS landing pages

🧠 Deep dive on first principles thinking

📶 Breaking down USV's success

📈 How to think through growth hacking

👀 The ultimate collection of marketing secrets

👉 43 life lessons

📋 How founders can improve their relationship with VCs

🧠 15 business resources that will teach you more than any class

💰 Tool for businesses to see an estimate of their real-time valuation

📶 Tiny Seed's investment thesis

🤔 The future of Web3 use cases

🖌 2022 State of the Creator Economy

🏁 3,163 case studies on how to start a business

📩 50 email marketing hacks to level up your content

🧹 Deep dive on curation-as-a-service

🔟 10 ideas to make you think

🕸 Hub-and-spoke network effects

🔥 The state of the SPV market

💰 Real-time valuation data from AngelList

👉 Why being "realistic" is irrational

🔥 How to structure a SaaS purchase

💲 22 truths about making money and tax avoidance

🔥 50 brutally honest takeaways about my time in venture capital

❌ All the mistakes we've made running an internet business

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- Clay and Tyler

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