Pricey Medium Pals,

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 recent, clear, and minimalist. Hat tip to the early design staff, corresponding to Marcin Wichary.

Like many writers, typing out my ideas on Medium made them really feel larger and extra actual than they really have 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 right this 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 over time, publishing distinctive tales from entrepreneurs.

Now, with a lean and mighty staff 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.

A couple of highlights from the journey to this point:

• 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 robust 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 Enhance.AI and Traction), Maria Colacurcio, CEO of Syndio, and extra.
• We’ve held group occasions recognizing a few of our extraordinarily gifted 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 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 saying the subsequent chapter of Entrepreneur’s Handbook.

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

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

Beehiiv shall be an off-platform extension of Entrepreneur’s Handbook, enabling us to develop our enterprise, function our writers in additional locations, and introduce new merchandise. Beehiiv provides us higher e mail capabilities for progress 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 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 grow to be identified for. Should you’d like to put in writing 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 brand throughout all of our platforms to higher signify how folks check 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 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 1,000,000 staff laid off within the know-how business previously two years. Many of those ex-employees are hanging out on their very own, changing into full-time creators.
• On the similar time, corporations are observing the advertising 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 developments is why Entrepreneur’s Handbook is extra related than ever: to assist creators grow to be corporations and firms grow to be creators.

Entrepreneur’s Handbook helps creators discover ways to flip their content material right into a enterprise. We additionally assist manufacturers and startups discover ways to modernize their progress methods and advertising techniques like creators.

We’ve been round for years, however it is 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 the very best,

Dave, Stephen, and Amar