Finish-of-Yr letter and why Entrepreneur’s Handbook is particularly related now greater than ever
Expensive Entrepreneur’s Handbook Group,
Like lots of you, I set objectives yearly, together with for Entrepreneur’s Handbook.
For this previous 12 months, the objectives the group and I set for the publication had been the next:
Attain 275k followersAchieve 5 million views throughout all propertiesLaunch the Entrepreneur’s Handbook Podcast and Group occasions programsPublish a characteristic with Medium founder, Ev WilliamsCreate a Knowable courseStrengthen our partnership with Medium
I’m thrilled to report that we hit all of those, minus the follower depend objective (Medium did a purge of nonactive accounts mid-year that adjusted our numbers), along with a shock initiative: launching Crypto Handbook.
None of this may have been doable with no robust group surrounding Entrepreneur’s Handbook, to whom I’m deeply grateful and want to thank:
Editor Stephen Moore and podcast host and producer Amardeep Parmar, you’re two absolute powerhouses of fantastic pondering and clear communication who’ve helped form EH into what it’s at the moment. Thanks each for the superb work.Tony Stubblebine, Scott Lamb, and Medium for being nice companions and creating and defending a incredible platform on which to publish our content material.Our readers. Thanks for persevering with to learn and hearken to Entrepreneur’s Handbook. Your suggestions and assist have been tremendous invaluable and encourage us to take care of the editorial high quality we’ve saved since we began eight years in the past.Our writers. Thanks for partnering with Entrepreneur’s Handbook to publish your tales. It’s an honor to work with every of you and I like studying your work. I stay up for studying extra from you in 2023.
Particular shoutout to a few of our common contributors and writers of our largest tales of the 12 months: Arthur Hayes, Rachel Greenberg, Aaron Dinin, PhD, Pete Sena, Joseph Mavericks, Al Anany, DC Palter, Michael Lim, Jon Brosio, Tim Denning.
Looking forward to 2023, I’m enthusiastic about our progress, our area of interest, and our group. Entrepreneur’s Handbook will proceed to be the primary publication on Medium to search out inspirational tales with sensible takeaways for entrepreneurs.
We’ll proceed to broaden our model surfaces and group engagement off of Medium however fortunately retain Medium as the house of our content material.
The startup house has taken an attention-grabbing flip lately. The enterprise capital bubble has popped. Valuations are down. Funding is very scrutinized. Excessive rates of interest are shifting buyers’ consideration away from dangerous startups and in direction of extra conventional investments. The recession is clamping down on budgets, inflicting everybody to tighten their grip on their wallets.
These are the precise situations for which Entrepreneur’s Handbook was created. It’s how we began. The Handbook publishes classes on find out how to begin a small enterprise, find out how to bootstrap, find out how to flip concepts into earnings, find out how to create MVPs and take them from zero to 1.
If ever there was a time to learn and research Entrepreneur’s Handbook, it’s this upcoming 12 months. It’s going to be a tricky 12 months, however I stay up for doubling down on our mission of being devoted to serving to entrepreneurs succeed it doesn’t matter what.
Let’s make it an ideal 12 months.
Thanks for studying.
-Dave, Stephen, and Amar