October 4, 2022 — Newsletter 012

Happy Tuesday! Welcome to the dozens of new entrepreneurs who joined our community or subscribed to our newsletter this week. 

Every day, our mission is to equip you with the community and knowledge that you need to become a successful entrepreneur — whether you're looking to build a tech unicorn, launch a side hustle, or anything in between. 

Today, we're going to break down what it means to "build in public" and share some tactical strategies on how you can leverage this powerful technique to drastically grow your brand and social media following. 

Enjoy!

Cheers,

Jake and the Day One Team

Building In Public

People do not want to be marketed to. They do not want to be sold to. So, instead of broadcasting your offering to them, consistently build in public.

But what does that mean? Let's break it down. 

Share your raw lessons, learnings, insights and experiments as they're happening along the way. In real time. All the time. 

Be vulnerable. How would you speak to your best friends or spouse? Speak like that to your audience on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, etc. 

There's never been a better time to leverage the scale of the internet to be authentic and vulnerable.

Don't broadcast. Don't seek attention. Seek trust.

Because trust is built on the bedrock of vulnerability.

I sat down last week with Karthik "KP" Puvvada, the Director of our Build Track, to unpack building in public and help you get started. KP grew his Twitter following from 400 to 36,000+ using this strategy.

This episode of Founders Found Here will share examples of how you can build in public effectively. 

Plus, if you're interested in working directly with KP to build your own side-hustles, earn $1k-$10k/mo in additional revenue, and build in public along the way, we invite you to join Day One and opt into his Build Track, which starts next week.

Catch the full 36-minute episode here:

Or, take the episode on the go on Spotify:

EVENT

Join us IRL at New York Tech Week

Next week is New York Tech Week. We're hosting a massive happy hour with our friends at Brex and Antler on Tuesday, Oct 11 at 6pm at a secret restaurant.

If you're in NYC or planning to fly in, we'd love for you to join. We currently have almost 500 RSVPs, so this will be a fun event. We'd love to see you there. 

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