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Just started a newsletter compiling job openings, conferences, and software benchmark summaries.
Would love some early feedback. What would you want to see, and what on a newsletter would make your job easier?
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I'm going to be blunt, this feels like a chatgpt RSS feed. If you're going to start a newsletter pick an industy or vertical to become an expert at, highlight relevant news topics, and then actually provide thoughtful insights or perspectives.
The newsletters I read in VC were hyper specific to certain industries and had thoughtful breakdowns of trends or patterns that helped me contextualize what was happening behind the scenes.
Thanks for the reply! I read a lot on Substack, and for context I worked in venture last summer and will be doing tech banking next summer.
I think I realized that I don't have any valuable insights over any what investors/operators already know or can synthesize themselves, and I think a majority of Substacks are not useful in that way, so my goal is to compress time and information for people to skim through every morning by sourcing jobs/conferences/benchmark highlights.
I guess what I'm trying to get at is, is there any part of your job you wish could be automated with a newsletter? Or do you think it would still make more sense to do deep dives into specific verticals? Thanks again for the feedback.
What's your goal? Are you trying to use this to get visibility with investors, grow a monetizable audience, kill time, etc.?
None of my job when I was in VC could be automated with a newsletter unless you can send me a newsletter of all the competing VC's pipelines.
While it's good that you recognize your insights may be limited, there's likely one area of interest or set of opinions that you hold that are worth writing about to the right audience. You're going into tech banking in the summer, start a substack about that journey and have it evolve as you gain more experience. Worst case scenario you now have a reflection of your journey for your own purposes and maybe it might even help someone else who's following in your footsteps.
Hey man, really appreciated your insights. After some reflection, I took your advice and tried my hand a primer and market map for campground software. Would really appreciate any feedback; have never done one of these before.
I just read your whole thing, not sure how much is AI, but it was detailed and thoughtful. I learned a lot and I used to cover and invest in online travel for 5+ years.
Main feedback:
Include a bit of yourself in your writing -- This reads pretty formal and it's anecdotes or personal opinions that can make this feel less like ChatGPT. Maybe you met with one of the founders of a company, tried out one of the products as a user, have some insider knowledge on a small acquisition, etc. The more you can share nuggets that aren't google-able the more you'll develop a unique voice.
Utilize a recurring closing device -- What's a framework, process, or analytical tool that you can apply to each vertical that provides a closing to each breakdown? Maybe it's a new framework you've created, but having this at the end of each write up forces you to iterate on your own investment framework. There should be a way for you to look at a vertical and create criteria to score it. It doesn't have to be accurate, but it gives people a quantifiable way to compare them as you do more of these deep dives.
Overall 8/10 -- I'd definitely read the next write up you have.
Hey man, just started working in VC and looking for some newsletters/podcasts to get information and ideas from. Would really appreciate some that you used throughout your career. Any industries. Thank you!
Here are a couple off the top of my head.
General Tech
https://stratechery.com/
https://newsletter.strictlyvc.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/
https://www.thatstartupguy.com/
https://hunterwalk.com/
VC
https://www.openvc.app/newsletter
https://www.generalist.com/
https://foundationessays.com/
https://tomtunguz.com/
Ecommerce/Fintech
https://blog.haimrich.com/
https://www.pymnts.com/
Podcasts
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