Car buying, passive income and how to build your SaaS 🏗 (Startup Watching #229)

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I’ve become re-obsessed lately with the idea of passive income. One of my long-term goals is to have $100k a year in relatively passive income coming in from a diversified set of courses. So I revisited this post from April of last year. It’s one of the better guides I’ve found, and I particularly like Nat’s viewpoints on why passive income isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

As an early stage startup how much should your roadmap change? If you’ve ever worked with developers, you know scope creep can kill a small startup. But if you’re doing your job then you’re going to uncover new information while you build your Minimum Lovable Product.

The Growth.Design guys are at it again with a killer case study (how’s that for alliteration?). This time they’re tearing down Morning Brew - a newsletter! You know I had to click. Read this to get some great copywriting & usability tips.

This read is meant more for early stage entrepreneurs, but I think it’s a good refresher for larger companies as well, when the sunk costs are higher. I worry a lot about the relatively low margins of Krit. As an agency, 10-20% is considered really good. And both our time and our employees’ time is restricted.