November last year, around 021Disrupt, I discovered twitter threads – a series of tweets linked to each other, on a given topic.
I started using twitter threads as writing prompts, chapter summaries, class notes and pointers for my students. Faizan Siddiqi joined first few #tweetstorms where we waxed poetically about things that had crossed our desks that morning.
Threads turned out to be so much fun that when I had the time and I could, I did one every day for a few days running. Followed by weeks of silence. Over 8 months they have added up.
Threads get triggered when I am teaching either at Nestio or Habib University or end up answering a question for a client that I think would benefit from a broader audience. They are much easier than long form articles but also harder because it’s awkward to try and be profound within 250 characters.
Yet that is their biggest appeal. A 10 tweet thread is less than 2500 characters and can be used to do a decent dive in a topic of interest.
Here is a small sample for posterity. I will add and update the list every few months.
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The meta thread – thread of threads. This was a thread of thread that I put together for my own personal use and reference. It will kill most thread unrollers since it’s a nested thread.
Design thinking questions, anyone?
1/ Last night I went looking for all the threads I had done on #founders #startups #productdev #uniteconomics and the mindset of a founder.
I thought it would be an easy filtered search.
It wasn’t.
Apparently there is no simple way of doing this other than a manual search.
— Jawwad Farid (@rebootdude) June 15, 2020
On the road to a million dollars. What does a road to a million dollars looks like for startups and founders
1/ The path to a million dollars in revenues for #desi #founders and #startups – a promised over due thread @jehan_ara @kayzafar @MaroofAliSyed @alinawab @TalhaIzhar @TheNestiO @faizansiddiqi
— Jawwad Farid (@rebootdude) June 28, 2020
On Ten things they didn’t teach me at Columbia Business School
0/ Ten things they didn’t teach me at Columbia Business School. A thread on stuff that I learned all by myself.
Source: class notes from the school of hard knocks@Huk06 @babushka99 @MaroofAliSyed @Ash_Kalim @jehan_ara #startups #founders #collectioncalls #overdueinvoices
— Jawwad Farid (@rebootdude) January 8, 2020
On Optionality – The most valuable lesson Finance has taught me
1/ Uncommon #finance for #founders & #startups – a #thread on #optionality
Given an uncertain future or outlook, #optionality gives you a choice to defer decisions to a point where more data or information is available.
You keep an option open or take an option to do x later
— Jawwad Farid (@rebootdude) November 22, 2019
On estimating market sizes.
0/ Estimating market sizes.
A thread for #desi #founders and #startups
How do you estimate #marketsize for your products and services? A list of things to do and …
— Jawwad Farid (@rebootdude) June 13, 2020
Estimating Markets Size Part II
0/ On creating monsters.
A thread on market sizing – part II.
Sometimes words have unintended consequences. On a thread on estimating #marketsize for #startups I picked up sizing fresh produce in Karachi.
Here are some more thoughts and qualifiers.
— Jawwad Farid (@rebootdude) June 14, 2020
On financial modeling at the Nest – pointers only
1/ Highlights from three days of Financial Modeling #bootcamp at the Nest for #founders and #startups – a #thread@TheNestiO @jehan_ara @akashshaikh @faizansiddiqi @TalhaIzhar
— Jawwad Farid (@rebootdude) June 25, 2020
On rebooting and starting up again
0/ On #rebooting or starting again
Why is it so difficult to start again. A thread on #running, #startups and #founders.
Understanding founder mindset through road running.
— Jawwad Farid (@rebootdude) June 22, 2020
On validating assumptions
0/ A thread on validating assumptions for #startups and #founders
Summarized notes my lecture yesterday at @HabibUniversity @jehan_ara @TheNestiO @akashshaikh @faizansiddiqi @alinawab @kayzafar @babushka99 @peshawar2o
— Jawwad Farid (@rebootdude) June 20, 2020
On running, founders and starting up
1/ A thread on running and startups for founders.
The difference between starting up, making it work and making it worthwhile. #startups #founders #exits #runners #founderfables
— Jawwad Farid (@rebootdude) November 30, 2019
On Brands a a Thirdspace – a summary of class notes from the guest lecture by Habib Ullah Khan at Habib University.
0/ Brand as a #ThirdSpace by Habib Ullah Khan
While my poor friend was teaching the class, I was taking notes.
Notes from the Brand as a Third Space lecture with @Huk06 today at @HabibUniversity #startups #founders #branding #marketing #thirdspace
— Jawwad Farid (@rebootdude) June 19, 2020
On estimating market size
0/ Estimating market sizes.
A thread for #desi #founders and #startups
How do you estimate #marketsize for your products and services? A list of things to do and …
— Jawwad Farid (@rebootdude) June 13, 2020
On optimizing your MS DOS Moment
1/ Optimizing your MS DOS moments?
When a large client calls with a promise of a few years of work. Enough to put your eldest through college and more.
Don’t try to close the deal there and then. Don’t quote a price. Don’t agree on terms. Set up time for the next call
— Jawwad Farid (@rebootdude) June 16, 2020
On Teaching online effectively
0/ I had been really struggling with #teaching online.
— Jawwad Farid (@rebootdude) June 17, 2020
The feeling is a mix of guilt and helplessness and not doing enough with or for my #students.
Since we starting teaching #online in March, I have tried to evolve my approach every week.
How to sell a million copies of your book
1/ Quick notes from
“How to sell million copies of your book” lecture at @HabibUniversity
No shortcuts.
Its a long lonely path and you won’t end up with a million. You would be lucky to crack 5,000. Most books can’t even reach 1,000. #Authors #Writers #Founders #startups
— Jawwad Farid (@rebootdude) June 6, 2020