Startup Watching

By Andrew Askins

Curated knowledge, inspiration and background stories from the startup world. Delivered to your inbox every Thursday or Friday 📬 | Find me @andrewaskins.

Previous issues

Your brain & app design + this startup is buying up carbon 🌳🧠 (Startup Watching #209)

#209 Aug 16, 2019

Hitting the mental gym 🧠💪 (Startup Watching #208)

#208 Aug 9, 2019

The background noise of the internet 👻 (Startup Watching #207)

#207 Aug 2, 2019

#206

Jul 26, 2019

How to write gooder 📝 (Startup Watching #206) – Happy Friday Watchers!My friend Julian Shapiro published his Guide to Writing Well while I was in Col
#205

Jul 19, 2019

Sex, drugs, and branding (Startup Watching #205) – Happy Friday Watchers!I'm writing this at 11:11 pm Thursday night. I have to be at the Columbia airpo
#204

Jul 5, 2019

The truth about no-code, first drafts and babies in space 👩‍🚀 (Startup Watching #204) – Happy Friday Watchers!I hope everyone here in the states had an awesome 4th. I had the perfect mix of
#203

Jun 28, 2019

The best case study I've EVER seen 👀 (Startup Watching #203) – Happy Friday Watchers!I had my first Startup Watching Chat with one of the beta members of the commun
#202

Jun 22, 2019

This is a masterclass in sales copy 💸 (Startup Watching #202) – Happy Saturday Watchers!Wait... what? Saturday? Yep 🤦‍♂️ I'm in the middle of moving and totally goof
#201

Jun 14, 2019

Almost ready to launch it 😯 (StartupWatching #201) – Happy Friday Watchers!You may have noticed I didn't launch the chat on Monday. There were 2 reasons:I
#200

Jun 7, 2019

Announcing something BIG for Issue #200 🔥🎉🙀 – Happy Friday Watchers!I mentioned last week that I'm working on a private community for Startup Watch
#199

May 31, 2019

She built a no-code prototype and went on a surprising journey 🤩 (StartupWatching #199) – Happy Friday Watchers!I'm working on my first paid product for you all! 🙀It's going to be a cool twis
#198

May 24, 2019

The 55 best places to automate your sheets 🛏 (StartupWatching #198) – Happy Friday Watchers!It's memorial day weekend in the states. I'll be drinking tequila on the beach
#197

May 17, 2019

How I run a company with ADHD 🧠 (StartupWatching #197) – Happy Friday Watchers!On Sunday I published a post about how I run Krit with ADHD. I've been working
#196

May 10, 2019

9 guidelines for being happy with $725k MRR (StartupWatching #196) – Happy Friday Watchers!Tonight I got dinner and drinks with my good friend Simon Fraser. Simon runs a
#195

May 2, 2019

What good is one person?☝️(StartupWatching #195) – Happy Friday Watchers!I'll keep the intro short this week, but I've got two exciting personal notes t
#194

Apr 26, 2019

Hiten Shah's billion dollar mistake 🤭 (StartupWatching #194) – Happy Friday Watchers!Last night was one of my favorite nights of the year... the NFL draft. Being th
#193

Apr 19, 2019

Writing a job post that doesn't blow 📝 (StartupWatching #193) – Happy Friday Watchers!Do you remember the job opening I shared 2 weeks ago? The results blew me away.
#192

Apr 12, 2019

Quit everything ✌️(StartupWatching #192) – Happy Friday Watchers!Krit turned 5 yesterday. 🎉 🎂 🙃Our little company has officially survived for ha
#191

Apr 5, 2019

If you had to live your life over (StartupWatching #191) – Happy Friday Watchers!I have some quick news. We're hiring again at Krit!Krit is the agency I run dur
#190

Mar 29, 2019

How to make $121k per year 💰(StartupWatching #190) – Note: this is a long intro, feel free to skip ahead to the links.The backpacking trip I wrote about a

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