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Fundamentals of Product-Market Fit

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Re: Fundamentals of Product-Market Fit

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Excited to see this new form of content from Holloway!

If you haven't seen some of their past content you should check out their (free) guide to Equity Compensation: https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation

Disclaimer: I'm working with Holloway on a future guide (to Technical Hiring and Recruiting).

Re: Fundamentals of Product-Market Fit

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Excited to see this new form of content from Holloway! If you haven't seen some of their past content you should check out their (free) guide to Equity Compensation: https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation Disclaimer: I'm working with Holloway on a future guide (to Technical Hiring and Recruiting).

Just took a look at some of their other stuff. Looks like it's high quality and well researched.

Just curious...how did you start working with Holloway? Did you reach out to them or did they find you?

Re: Fundamentals of Product-Market Fit

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Wow, the two founders started awesome guides that I consulted in the past, from https://www.holloway.com/about?section=story:

- Josh Levy: The Open Guide to Amazon Web Services (AWS) (https://github.com/open-guides/og-aws/) and The Art of the Command Line (https://github.com/jlevy/the-art-of-command-line)

- Andy Sparks: Everything You Should Know About CRISPR—And Where to Learn More (https://medium.com/startup-grind/a-primer-on-crispr-and-how-...)

Re: Fundamentals of Product-Market Fit

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post #6

Wow, the two founders started awesome guides that I consulted in the past, from https://www.holloway.com/about?section=story : - Josh Levy: The Open Guide to Amazon Web Services (AWS) ( https://github.com/open-guides/og-aws/ ) and The Art of the Command Line ( https://github.com/jlevy/the-art-of-command-line ) - Andy Sparks: Everything You Should Know About CRISPR—And Where to Learn More ( https://medium.com/startup-…

Aw thank you! We're glad you found them helpful.

Re: Fundamentals of Product-Market Fit

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This is phenomenal.

Thanks! Everything we publish at Holloway is built to be improved over time, so let us know if there's anything we missed so we can make this as helpful of a resource as possible!

What's the revenue model? You guys deserve to be compensated (richly) for the content; it's awesome. I'm just wondering how you folks make money.

Re: Fundamentals of Product-Market Fit

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Everything we publish at Holloway is built to be improved over time, so let us know if there's anything we missed so we can make this as helpful of a resource as possible!

What's the revenue model? You guys deserve to be compensated (richly) for the content; it's awesome. I'm just wondering how you folks make money.

What a lovely question. Top of mind for us, too. Our first Guide, on Equity Compensation, is entirely free. Think of it like our public sandbox. For now, we're thinking all future Guides will be available for purchase (one-time payment and you get digital access + updates). The first Guide we'll launch for purchase is The Holloway Guide to Raising Venture Capital (https://www.holloway.com/g/venture-capital/about), which we're hoping to have out in June. This post is an excerpt from that.

We'll also be posting more on our blog, like this post, to build up awareness of what we're up to. Our policy internally is that if we're going to post content to promote one of our products, though, it needs to be helpful to readers on its own. It can't just be content marketing junk to get you to click.

So, fingers crossed. We're making a bet on people being willing to pay for what we're creating!

Re: Fundamentals of Product-Market Fit

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post #5

Excited to see this new form of content from Holloway! If you haven't seen some of their past content you should check out their (free) guide to Equity Compensation: https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation Disclaimer: I'm working with Holloway on a future guide (to Technical Hiring and Recruiting).

Just took a look at some of their other stuff. Looks like it's high quality and well researched. Just curious...how did you start working with Holloway? Did you reach out to them or did they find you?

I've known the Holloway team almost since inception, and knew Josh (one of the cofounders) from before that. I had originally cold reached out to him on LinkedIn after I read some stuff he had written on Quora (where I was working at the time), and we got coffee a few times and became friends.

I've been a huge fan of what they're trying to do. It's also a really strong team—they're polymaths in some sort. They had wanted to write about hiring and recruiting (and in fact had already started having conversations about it with some really credible folk), and at some point we just decided I'd help out (I had written some stuff on Quora and Medium but never worked on something of this magnitude).

Anyway that's probably more detail than you wanted :) I'd say reach out from their website (or by emailing contributing@h..y.com), they're pretty approachable (Andy is in these threads too).

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