picking covers + meetup?

Good morning Predictable Revenue community,

Thank you to everyone that shared their feedback on the domains. While many people liked one or the other, a big group of you didn’t like it at all. It didn’t make sense to me at first because I was thinking of the book and the newsletter as the same thing. I started writing this newsletter in order to get feedback on the book so the two were naturally intertwined in my head. Your comments helped me realize they are two separate things and deserve to be treated as such.

Yesterday I grabbed the domain foundersedition.co and will begin transitioning things slowly over to that domain in a few weeks. This way, all the newsletter content stays here and I can post book content on the book’s site. It seems so simple now that more than a few of you explained it to me, thanks again.

I am very close to submitting my third and final substantive edit, it’s sitting around 49k words which feels weird. I’ve never thought of myself as a particularly strong writer but I guess it’s like any muscle, the more you use it the stronger it gets. A friend asked me if I thought of myself as an author now and he was surprised when I said no. I see myself as an entrepreneur that happened to write a book on my way to the next project.

I have some exciting news, we have our first cover mockups! Do you want to see them? Well, you probably already can because well, this is an email. But I’d love your feedback, which is your favourite? Any ones you dislike? Anything you’d change?

Once you’ve had a chance to vote I have a second question for you, I’m going to host a virtual meetup later this month. It will be for companies with some funding and some customers but are still under $500k in ARR. I’d like to keep it small and I’ll facilitate the conversation myself. My goal is to build a sense of community between founders going through similar challenges. One thing that really helped me when I was going through tough shit was a co-working space called Launch Academy, it was an incredible support network that helped me learn and keep pushing. Many of us are doing this remotely and I miss the community element of Launch so I figured I’d try to recreate that here. Let me know if you’re interested, where you’re at from a customer perspective, and if you have any questions or advice for getting this booted up.

Thanks all,

Collin

Cover A

Cover B

Cover C