Entrepreneur’s Handbook pronounces new publication, new podcast season, and up to date branding and mission.
Expensive Medium Mates,
After I first began writing on Medium in 2014, I shortly grew to become obsessed. I used to be a beginner author, however I grew to become enthusiastic about the Medium editor. It was minty contemporary, clear, and minimalist. Hat tip to the early design crew, comparable to Marcin Wichary.
Like many writers, typing out my ideas on Medium made them really feel greater and extra actual than they really had been. It was invigorating.
That is precisely how entrepreneurship got here alive in my life.
As many entrepreneurs know, a written concept is the primary crystalization of a startup. The method of lassoing a wild concept in your head and harnessing it on the web page will both kill it or fortify it additional. Writing begets ventures.
When Medium launched “Collections” — the primary iteration of what we all know right now as Publications — I created Entrepreneur’s Handbook, merely because the digital warehouse for what I used to be studying about in beginning companies. Being one of many first in our class and ruthlessly defending our editorial high quality allow us to scale over time, publishing distinctive tales from entrepreneurs.
Now, with a lean and mighty crew of Amardeep Parmar and Stephen Moore, Entrepreneur’s Handbook has grown to be considered one of Medium’s largest, most energetic publications with tons of of fantastic writers and over 225,000 followers.
A number of highlights from the journey thus far:
We launched the Entrepreneur’s Handbook Podcast hosted by Amar, interviewing company just like the cofounders of Netflix, ConvertKit, and even the founding father of Medium, Ev Williams. We simply introduced Season Two, with a powerful lineup of attention-grabbing company, together with Tyler Denk, founding father of Beehiiv, Lars Albright + Sandhya Hegde + Wei Lien Dang from Uncommon VC, Lloyed Lobo, founding father of Increase.AI and Traction), Maria Colacurcio, CEO of Syndio, and extra.We’ve held group occasions recognizing a few of our extraordinarily proficient writers, comparable to Aaron Dinin, PhD, AL Anany, Rachel Greenberg, Joseph Mavericks, Michael Lim, DC Palter, and Tim Denning.We’ve launched Crypto Handbook, that includes the work of prime voices in cryptocurrencies and Web3 comparable to Arthur Hayes.We’re taking part in Medium Day this August. Come be part of us on Hopin as we share tales with the Medium group — it’s going to be enjoyable.
Right this moment, we’re asserting the following chapter of Entrepreneur’s Handbook.
Firstly, we’re not shifting off Medium.
Medium will stay our residence. We’re grateful for the continued partnership we’ve been in a position to have with Medium over time and we’re proud of Medium as our group hub and publishing platform.
Beehiiv can be an off-platform extension of Entrepreneur’s Handbook, enabling us to develop our enterprise, characteristic our writers in additional locations, and introduce new merchandise. Beehiiv provides us higher e mail capabilities for development and one other channel to scale our media enterprise.
What’s going to be completely different between the content material we publish on Medium versus Beehiiv?
On Medium, we’ll proceed publishing inspirational tales with sensible takeaways for entrepreneurs, simply as we’ve got been doing for years. You’ll proceed to see the identical nice writers, new ones we uncover, and non-fluffy startup tales that we’ve develop into recognized for. In the event you’d like to jot down for Entrepreneur’s Handbook, apply right here or ship us a DM on Twitter.On Beehiiv, we’ll be writing about extra time-relevant classes and takeaways from what’s occurring within the startup information world. You’ll get extra private insights from the editors of EH and myself, and a curated overview of prime tales and social posts from across the internet.Collectively, you’ll get evergreen classes on Medium and well timed classes on Beehiiv.
“EH”
Moreover, we’re updating the Entrepreneur’s Handbook emblem throughout all of our platforms to higher signify how individuals check with Entrepreneur’s Handbook in pure language (i.e., “EH”).
Our daring sans serif “E” icon is receiving a companion letter “H” to point out that we’re not just for Entrepreneurs however are a Handbook — a premier useful resource for schooling and skill-building within the quickly evolving fields of expertise, enterprise capital, and startups.
New area
With that, I’m delighted to disclose our shiny new area ehandbook.com the place you possibly can join our Beehiiv publication. Entrepreneur’s Handbook on Medium will nonetheless be accessed at entrepreneurshandbook.co
The $250 billion creator economic system is anticipated to double within the subsequent 5 years, largely fueled by the half one million staff laid off within the expertise business previously two years. Many of those ex-employees are placing out on their very own, changing into full-time creators.On the identical time, corporations are observing the advertising and marketing energy behind the creator economic system. Character-based, genuine content material wins over skilled, faceless model updates on social channels and occasions.
However content material creators aren’t essentially entrepreneurs. Creating content material isn’t the identical ability as creating an organization.
Likewise, corporations battle to be like creators. They wish to humanize their manufacturers, resonate with audiences, and construct loyal communities round their merchandise.
The convergence of those two macro traits is why Entrepreneur’s Handbook is extra related than ever: to assist creators develop into corporations and firms develop into creators.
Entrepreneur’s Handbook helps creators learn to flip their content material right into a enterprise. We additionally assist manufacturers and startups learn to modernize their development methods and advertising and marketing ways like creators.
We’ve been round for years, however this can be a new starting for our publication. I’m enthusiastic about our continued partnership with Medium, the expansion forward, and most significantly the tales and insights we get to publish.
All one of the best,
Dave, Stephen, and Amar
