A better way to grow a business This is For Starters #40

This is always one newsletter that brings joy to my soul each week.

But, this week, "For Starters" took their interview and imagery to another level with Danny D's Mud Shop ❤️

@danielgiaco.bsky.social, what you're doing with "For Starters". 👏 👏 👏

Read this masterpiece below. 👇

For Starters A newsletter and community for starting the small business of your dreams. Join for weekly inspiration, ideas, tips and tools.

"I think of a brand as a consistent promise ... ‘I promise to make the best running shoes on the planet’. .. What’s your promise? Your promise is your brand." (David Hieatt)

Via For Starters by @danielgiaco.bsky.social. An email laden with good ideas.

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Oh nice spot! Thanks for this.

Awesome, thanks Reilly. Extremely happy you liked edition one!

For Starters A community for starting the small business of your dreams. Join for weekly inspiration, ideas, tips and tools.

It was no surprise that the first issue of @danielgiaco.bsky.social's new @forstarters.bsky.social is popping and hissing with interesting things. Highly recommended:

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🟧 The new rules of media 20 lessons for digital media’s present and future

I had some newsletter fun: "The New Rules of Media", 20 lessons for How Digital Media Works Now, with help from @deliacai.bsky.social @davidcho.bsky.social @nwquah.bsky.social // onethingnewsletter.substack.com/p/the-new-ru...

25 Truths — The Ian Sanders Co. Curiosity and storytelling are entwined. How can we know more about the world than by being curious about people: what motivates them, what they’re passionate about, what keeps them up at night? Stori...

For those of us who run our own small businesses…

You’ll rarely find so much wisdom packed into one page of a website (by @iansanders.bsky.social )

www.iansanders.com/25truths

Different but equally strong insights, strategies, paths and perspectives from both of your books. Which is what makes it a good combo.

These are two legit excellent reads for new business founders. @shl.bsky.social @andybudd.bsky.social

Dude was just admiring the navy wallpaper in Mar-a-Lago's private dining room and yadda yadda yadda he's now running the Navy.

👀

Time marches on, I suppose, but the idea of Smithfield becoming a giant WeWork, or a collection of food vans with names like The Crazy Taco Bros, makes me want to eat my own hands.

"Follow your passion" they said...

Totally, it's a one-of-a-kind place. The history is *immense*. The Museum of London is moving in which is good, but I hope in 5-10 years the rest of it isn't just luxury flats, prets, sephoras, cheesy experiential advertising spaces, etc.

How France uncovered the mystery of the forbidden photos of Nazi-occupied Paris The search for the unknown photographer began in the summer of 2022, with the discovery of an old photo album at a flea market in southern France.

"If you find this album, take care of it and have the courage to look at it." An incredible story.

Smithfield and Billingsgate: Meat and fish markets to close Smithfield and Billingsgate markets, which have traded in London for hundreds of years, face the axe.

Sad day. I suppose the greedy City wants to redevelop the sites?

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Also, London people, sign up to the excellent newsletter @londonminute.bsky.social. Michael does an awesome job curating local news links 👏🏼

900 years is just crazy. A sad end. My backyard is about to become NYC’s meatpacking.

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Molly’s World Molly Baz, food media star and world builder, on creating her new sauce brand Ayoh, building a mix of channels and products, playing the YouTube game, and what she wants to do next.

I talked to Molly Baz, one of my favorite food people, about the portfolio of businesses she's building around herself:

→ Balancing the YouTube algo vs. authenticity
→ Why she's launching Ayoh, a mayo startup
→ How people want to eat

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One unspoken tragedy: MAGA has ruined the fashion of one of my favourite films.

Itching to write a book? AI publisher Spines wants to make a deal | TechCrunch Generative AI has upended how we write things, or even if we write at all. Now a startup wants to be the main character in the next chapter of that story:

Here we go...

Always good to keep things in perspective. What data from your life will be intact 50, 100, 200 years from now? A printed photo? A moleskine notebook? An external hard drive? A tiny memory card?

If you die in bluesky, you die in real life

Nothing but respect for the humbling effects of the recession on millennial expectations.

An NYC locksmith has become a viral sensation for turning subway tokens into keys Business is booming at Greenwich Locksmiths.

oh man I want a subway token key now
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PAP Coffee in Harajuku is a Haven for Coffee and Paper Lovers What happens when a paper company opens a specialty coffee shop? Well, you get the utterly delightful PAP Coffee, located on a small, quiet backstreet and removed from the bustle of Harajuku. The unlikely owner is Sanyo Shigyo, a 55-year old Tokyo-based paper company whose bread and butter is specia

This is what happens when a specialty paper shop opens a specialty coffee shop in Harajuku
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It's not!

Creating stunning fine art prints on handmade Japanese paper for the Special Edition of my new book with Rogier at Temple Studios.

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