V1's Hottest Event Yet...The Podcast Playbook🔥

Check out our Maker Monday event, summer opportunities & Top Tweets!

Jun 28, 2021

If you have any suggestions on what we should cover or general feedback, let us know at team@v1michigan.com. But for now, let's go! 🚀

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Updates:

On Clubhouse: the most high-value event we've ever hosted

We're bringing together 3 high-powered podcast founders to figure out what it takes to start a successful podcast. We'll be going all the way from 0 to 1, covering how to get started, how to build your audience and how to do all of the small things right.

Sign up here to get the clubhouse link:

👉https://lu.ma/podcast-playbook👈

Get excited for NYC Intern Social hosted by V1 Member and Head of Community @ Ladder, Belicia Tan 🎊

The event is in NYC on Thursday, July 1st @5:30 PM! As a professional community meant to help you grow your career, connect with thousands of peers and get targeted resources and opportunities! If your interested in reaching out and meeting students, interns, or recent grads, make sure to check out this event! Come for free food, good vibes and new friends & make sure to RSVP!🔥

Top Tweets of The Week 🐥

Dickie Bush 🚢 @dickiebush

The world's most valuable skill: Writing effectively. But colleges charge you 120k and still do a terrible job teaching it. Instead, here are 9 writing frameworks that cost you nothing and will save you hundreds of hours:

Glances at the newsletter growth chart. I think we should all take notes.

Calum Johnson @calum_johnson9

How does a 21 year old 🇬🇧immigrant with no work experience or connections land a job over Ivy leaguers & Business school graduates. The answer is simple, I call it the 90/10 rule. Here's how you can come out on top when the odds are not in your favor🧵

Sometimes, it's worth taking the road less traveled by.

Ritesh Banglani @banglani

When I was 18, I lost my entire month's income in 10 minutes of gambling. It was totally worth it. <story>

A captivating story with a valuable lesson at the end of it.

Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan

When raising money, investors are increasingly looking for your unique distribution advantage—how you get to your target market more cheaply and quickly than your competition. Here are 7 types of distribution advantages 🧵

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Opportunities 🔍

Full-stack Engineer: are you interested in honing your app development skills? Want to get experience working with 2 others on a side project? Def make sure to reach out to Shahed Khan and Naveen on Twitter! Responsibilities and perks include:

30-40 hrs time commitment
Co-ownership of app
Mentorship and guidance on building and launching apps

Shahed Khan @_shahedk

I'm looking for a full-stack engineer to help build a little side project @naveen and I are working on. - 30-40 hrs of work - You'll be a co-owner of the app - We'll help mentor & show you how to build & launch apps! Please send links to your work RTs & referrals appreciated!

Are you interested in blockchain and cryptocurrencies? Then make sure to check out Blockchain at Michigan's upcoming summer cohort! If you’re interested in emerging tech and want to see how blockchain impacts the supply chain to voting to decentralized finance, then you should def consider joining them! Learn more on blockchain, building decentralized apps, and consulting for startups and F500 companies! If you’re interested, apply here by July 1! 🤩

Feel free to reach out to @Ishaan on Discord for more info!

What We're Reading 🧠

Catch the latest scoops from other V1 members

A16Z's New Technology Magazine

Google's New Machine Learning Group Aims to Take Lead in AI

AWS Acquires Encrypted Messaging Service Wickr

That’s all for today’s newsletter but if you have any specific requests of what you’d like to see in future editions, any ideas for the V1 Community, want to contribute to the newsletter, or any thoughts at all please reach out to us via email or DM us on Twitter!

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Saanika Kulkarni, Divya Reddy , Advait Iyer, Dheera Vuppala, Varun Jindal, Drew Levine, Samay Shamdasani

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