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Founders, You Want to pick my brain? I’ll save you time, here’s what I find in 90% of my calls: - you have too much going on, cut 50-70% of your initiatives, channels, costs etc - as a result, you’re executing in a mediocre/surface level way, take any signal you find and peel the onion 3 more levels deep. - you are spending too much $ on service providers and not developing yourself or team nearly enough - you are slow. Bc you have too many things going on and not enough resources. - you aren’t connecting your resources/inputs to your initiatives/outputs in a realistic way. I did all of this my first time as an entrepreneur. Learn from my mistakes. Deeper focus, higher quality, move faster.

The most FAQ I get from aspiring entrepreneurs: What skills should I build to be a founder one day? I actually have an answer. 4 Skills, in order of importance: 1) Persuasive communication 2) Product sensibility 3) Leadership 4) Business Judgement Let's unpack:

For my first 12 years as an entrepreneur, I only bootstrapped. Last year, I raised my first-ever seed round of $3,768,000. Here is why I did it and what I learned:

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@jspujji what an amzing journey wishing @GrowthAssistant happy birthday thanks to @jspujji and @aschwags3 for providing such great talent through @GrowthAssistant platform.

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Happy Birthday GX!!!

@jspujji It’s true. We did this.

18/ Last, but not least: We closed out with some reflections where I invited people to share fears/areas of excitement. And then, we aligned on agreements/followups + scheduled our next offsite + went to a celebratory dinner!! (+ played games at The Armory STL)

Running great offsites is hard! We just completed our 2023 Kickoff for Kahani. Here is the complete agenda and list of exercises we used to start the year off with a bang 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

22/ If this was helpful, please RT it and follow me @jspujji and @appkahani. I will share more learning and resources for entrepreneurship, ecommerce and growth marketing!

SO EXCITED. We have a Kahani customer who is seeing > 20X ROI. How? They have amazing UGC that they are showcasing ON their site, compliments of Kahani. See it for yourself:

The best companies in the world have global teams. Do you? If not, we're here to help! DM us today

Amazing feedback for today from @SmartAsset! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Mary is fantastic... She's sharp, detail-oriented, engaged, and has a fantastic attitude! We got so lucky!" Your GrowthAssistant is waiting, DM us today!

Welcome @ProductSchool to GrowthAssistant! 🎉 They wanted a GA to... - Manage ad campaigns across platforms - Monitor analytics and adjust accordingly - Coordinate with in-house design team for new creative We placed Kennie w/ experience in ad campaign management and reports!

🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 9 signs your growth team is underperforming 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

AMA tomorrow! twitter.com/i/spaces/1YpJk…

Whatever you appreciate, appreciates.

Optimizing ad creative. We didn’t focus ads on quick-cut FB/IG ads. Instead, every ad told the full product story: • What is it? • What problem does it solve? • Why this is the best solution to solve it? Every ad creative needed to address this. Otherwise, it wouldn't run.

In 18 months, a portfolio co grew profitably from $1,500/day to $100,000/day in daily revenue. I agreed to advise this company in 2019. There was no product & no customers, but I fell in love with the founder's drive. Here are 3 simple things we did, weekly, to scale fast 👇

I just got an ad from a fitness influencer who was promoting something other than @AthleticGreens Is that allowed?