Timothy McElroy

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

1/ The 3 Real Marketing Strategies that I Know Actually Work. A thread.

If you like the German social, political and economic model, it's worth remembering that what it really represents is the consensus of American opinion on how to build a stable non-Communist polity if you were starting from scratch, circa 1945

Watch the world's greatest #cities rise and fall over the past 4,000 years wef.ch/2mZgVaD

#Vilnius looks beautiful at #Christmas, hoping to visit in 2017 goo.gl/okawy8 @Lithuania

So a lot hangs on two questions: Can the Chinese econ defy gravity. If not, what happens when it falls?

Sources of the modest revival in Spanish growth:

If you are looking for the facts on growth tonight: #facts" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">web.stanford.edu/~chadj/papers.…

Harvard Business School students providing feedback to Jeff Bezos in the early days of Amazon @mikedariano/10-points-about-christensens-disruption-theory-bezos-s-amazon-31b8d1ac27fc#.6hnjuqdpg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@mikedariano/1… via @mikedariano

Abu Dhabi's new solar plant will have the cheapest electricity contract price in history. Great @ramez post: rameznaam.com/2016/09/21/new…

Despite a Cambrian explosion of unicorns and decacorns, a shrinking number of Americans are employed by startups.

How should you follow up with an investor? blog.elizabethyin.com/post/149611764… cc @500Startups @davemcclure

Revisiting Network Effects #Startups growthhackers.com/articles/revis…

After years of intensive analysis, Google discovers the key to good teamwork is being nice qz.com/625870

Read @portereduardo on rethinking the role of government: nytimes.com/2016/08/03/bus…

HBR: Attribution models are the best tools for orgs w/ complex campaigns, but take time to build goo.gl/D23Mdx #measure #marketing

If your VC meeting feels like it went well, it really didn’t… blog.elizabethyin.com/post/148249714… cc @500Startups @davemcclure