Founding Editor’s Notice

Expensive Medium Buddies,

After I first began writing on Medium in 2014, I rapidly turned obsessed. I used to be a beginner author, however I turned keen about the Medium editor. It was minty contemporary, clear, and minimalist. Hat tip to the early design group, corresponding 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 thought is the primary crystalization of a startup. The method of lassoing a wild thought 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 at the moment 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 through the years, publishing distinctive tales from entrepreneurs.

Now, with a lean and mighty group of Amardeep Parmar and Stephen Moore, Entrepreneur’s Handbook has grown to be one among Medium’s largest, most lively publications with a whole lot of fantastic writers and over 225,000 followers.

Just a few highlights from the journey thus far:

• We launched the Entrepreneur’s Handbook Podcast hosted by Amar, interviewing friends 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 fascinating friends, 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 neighborhood occasions recognizing a few of our extraordinarily proficient writers, corresponding 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 high voices in cryptocurrencies and Web3 corresponding to Arthur Hayes.
• We’re collaborating in Medium Day this August. Come be part of us on Hopin as we share tales with the Medium neighborhood — it’s going to be enjoyable.

Right now, we’re saying the following chapter of Entrepreneur’s Handbook.

In the beginning, we’re not transferring off Medium.

Medium will stay our dwelling. We’re grateful for the continued partnership we’ve been in a position to have with Medium through the years and we’re pleased with Medium as our neighborhood hub and publishing platform.

Beehiiv might 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 larger electronic 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 have now 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 turn out to be recognized for. For those who’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 taking place within the startup information world. You’ll get extra private insights from the editors of EH and myself, and a curated overview of high tales and social posts from across the net.
• 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 raised characterize how individuals consult with Entrepreneur’s Handbook in pure language (i.e., “EH”).

Our daring sans serif “E” icon is receiving a companion letter “H” to indicate 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 know-how, enterprise capital, and startups.

New area

With that, I’m delighted to disclose our shiny new area ehandbook.com the place you may join our Beehiiv e-newsletter. Entrepreneur’s Handbook on Medium will nonetheless be accessed at entrepreneurshandbook.co

• The $250 billion creator economic system is predicted to double within the subsequent 5 years, largely fueled by the half 1,000,000 workers laid off within the know-how business prior to now two years. Many of those ex-employees are hanging out on their very own, turning into full-time creators.
• On the similar time, corporations are observing the advertising and marketing energy behind the creator economic system. Persona-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 developments is why Entrepreneur’s Handbook is extra related than ever: to assist creators turn out to be corporations and firms turn out to be 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