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What Are Founders Reading?

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I think it’s a great idea.

I do have 3 UI/UX recommendations though.

1. Hide that link at the top of your site for putting in your email. If you have something cool that I want to keep getting it will happen, but share with me your content first. You’re showing that you care more about getting signups than what you’re selling which is engaging information.

2.On your page where it’s the articles. It’s hard to tell that you can select the title for the article to open it up. It’s clean how it is, but it hides that that’s a link, which makes it seem like you’re not doing anything other than just showing a picture, name and title.

3. Sell me on what you’re doing. That first landing page should be today’s articles or at least the most recent. I should be able to quick hit that and get an idea of what you’re curating. Make it simple for users to get the information. That old rule about 7 seconds for a user to become dis-interested has been cut into a 10th. People have very short attention spans so get to the thing you can do for them.

Read: How to Win friends and Influence people, it covers this aspect of sales.

Awesome recommendations WordToDa! I´ll make sure to fix those issues! Really appreciate your time making them. I just started 2 weeks ago and I have to do plenty of work to improve it. Thanks!

Practically anything that has absolutely nothing to do with startups or the startup-industrial-complex. As a venture-backed founder, that’s what I read.

Hey Throwaway, sorry, I´m not sure if I get your comment right... Do you mean there´s nothing there relevant for you as a founder? Thanks anyway for commenting

I think what parent is trying to say is that as a founder themselves, they didn't read start-up focused books. They read other books not related to start-ups. What that other books are, I don't know.

Thanks ohmy! Now it makes total sense thanks to you :)

No worries. Best wishes with the website. There's some good recommendations listed there.

Thanks man, really appreciate it. Hope you can join us, more good recommendations coming every week :)

I meant that as a founder I can't stomach reading startup and "startup life" content. There are more valuable lessons about building and operating a business in reading Mark Twain than there are in reading Marc Andreessen. So, when I read, I read entirely non-startup stuff.

Here here! My recent good reads (5y or so) are Permutation City, Accelerando, and just now re-reading Dune.

Hey Lostmsu! Those sound like great recommendations! Gonna try to find them. Haven´t read Dune but it seems worth it. Thanks for sharing them bro!

Now I get it Throw! My wrong. Yep, totally aligned with your point here. I guess what I tried to convey as value proposition is more "what you should read in order to become a founder". For the time being, I have to rely on Twitter/X to get what founders share but yeah, it´s totally different to what one should read to become a whole human being/founder. Hopefully coming versions will add what founders are reading OUTSIDE the startup bubble. Personally I read history and philosophy/psichology. Thanks for your insight, really appreciate it!

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