The Beginnings Newsletter

What it does

The Beginnings Newsletter is an weekly email newsletter where we take a Billion dollar company each week and look into their humble beginnings and how the world viewed them then.

Get inspired from the humble beginnings of famous companies. Click to read The Beginnings, a Substack publication. Launched 7 years ago.

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  The Beginnings2016 · ▲527

  Beginnings of billion dollar companies

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  First 10002021 · first1000.co · ▲652

  Case studies on how companies got their first 1000 customers

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  Startup Spark2023 · ▲121

  Weekly newsletter with startup ideas and an A-Z launch guide

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  StartupWatching2017 · ▲233

  Curated startup knowledge, inspiration & background stories

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  From Spark to Startup2024 · sparktostartup.substack.com · ▲200

  Startup ideas that you can launch over a weekend

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  Proud Mom of a CEO Newsletter2020 · proudmomofaceo.substack.com · ▲158

  Get encouraging notes about your journey every weekday

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  WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement▲287

  wallhop is a free paywall bypass. Paste any article link to read it without paywall popups, ads or clutter. No signup, no extension. A simple 12ft.io alternative.

  Growth · 11d ago · wallhop.io

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  Prefer▲201

  The execution layer for AEO

  Growth · 23d ago · tryprefer.com

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  MakerMap▲197

  A living map of makers and what they’re building

  Growth · 26d ago · makermap.lol

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  MicroAcquire▲1,552

  A free & anonymous startup acquisition marketplace

  Commerce · 2020 · microacquire.com

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  YourStack▲1,251

  A new community for sharing the products you use and ❤️

  Life & fun · 2020 · yourstack.com

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  Become an Indie Hacker▲826

  The ultimate resource for starting profitable side projects

  Growth · 2020 · indiehackers.com

• IW
  I wrote a book for engineers that want to become engineering managers▲695

  Hey folks. Last year I was fortunate enough to sign a deal to write a book with my favorite technical publisher, The Pragmatic Bookshelf. When I started out as an Engineering Manager many years ago, I found that there wasn't a huge amount of material that specifically and practically helped me understand how to do my job. When you learn to program there's all of these amazing tutorials, examples and guides, but what was there for new managers? In response to this, a couple of years ago I started a blog over at https://www.theengineeringmanager.com which got a decent amount of…

  Work · 2020

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  Bannerbear▲652

  Auto-generate IG Stories, Pinterest Pins and more

  Growth · 2020 · bannerbear.com

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  byte▲604

  A new looping video app from the founder of Vine

  Growth · 2020