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Josh Pigford
The Business Academy β€” Learn how to start, build and grow your own business
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Josh Pigford
I've been business-ing for the better part of a decade and if I've learned anything in that time it's that I know very little. There are so many facets of business that I just know very little about and I've benefited immensely from the content others have put out to help me learn how to not be terrible at building businesses (though I guess the jury is still out on that 😜). Over the past 3 years of building Baremetrics, we've had thousands of conversations with founders at just about every stage and one commonality among them all is their desire to learn. So, to help with that in a more tangible capacity, we've created the Business Academy. It's a place for businesses at all stages to learn how to, well...business. We've already got a bunch of content, but as you can see from the Upcoming Articles area, there's a lot more already in the works. If there's an area of business that we haven't covered, let us know and we'll work on getting it added right away! https://baremetrics.com/academy
Joe Fischer
@shpigford Been following your writings for a while now, love how you tackle the boring but important stuff. Keep it up!
Josh Pigford
@thejoefischer Thanks so much, Joe! πŸ™Œ
Jorge Selva
@shpigford You guys are awesome! I (and I assume many others) really appreciate the transparency and willingness to share your learnings along the way. Keep it up, you rock!
Josh Pigford
@jorge_selva Thanks so much Jorge!
Γ…ke Brattberg πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ͺπŸ””
Good stuff @shpigford and team Baremetrics! You guys rock.
Josh Pigford
@akebrattberg Thanks so much! πŸ‘
Marko
This is really valuable @shpigford! Thanks for doing this! Also the site looks amazing πŸ˜‰
Josh Pigford
@markoxvee Thanks Marko! πŸŽ“πŸ’₯
Phil Wolff
I love TBA's tone and intent. But it's a toe dipped in very deep and turbulent waters. Business education is a hypercompetitive market. Thousands of B-schools are at least partly online, YouTube is increasingly full of bite-sized knowledge nuggets, community and peer learning are standard in moocs, and the success of education is core to their missions and economic models. TBA could be a winner by niching, perhaps in Baremetrics' world of transactional analytics. Without focus, TBA will never reach what they need to compete: the content density and streams of quality new content that attract students, experts, and industry. What will it take to be the most authoritative brand in their domain? Can they form the content, research, and marketing partnerships that let them leapfrog rivals and become the channel of choice of business KSAs? This doesn't even get into the education platform tooling issues: that's an arms race of its own, independent of content. Not just classroom management, but tools for modeling, simulation, practice, collaboration, and everything else needed to actually build skills and competencies. The capital requirements are steep and neverending.
Ben Tossell
Would be pretty cool to have a 'submit lesson suggestion' somewhere here so people can ask there own questions - if you get a lot, write up a lesson :) Also, would be cool to have examples in the posts - e.g. what other companies do X well? Maybe include some external validations too where you can say - X others in the biz world also think Y
Sajeesh Philip
I appreciate the effort. But, really? Is this something we find on the 'homepage of Product Hunt' ? I don't usually write like this and I am a fan of the quality of PH. But this disappoints me. There are already tons of how-to articles on Internet like this (may be better than this ) and this make to the home page. They even host this 'Academy' as part of their main product's domain. An obvious gimmick. Sorry to be a little harsh here. But had to say it! @bentossell @rrhoover
Josh Pigford
@philipsajeesh @bentossell @rrhoover Totally agreed. This content is terrible. Can't imagine anyone getting use out of this. I mean...words? Seriously? Who even uses those anymore? Now, if this had been a bot?!?!?! WOOOOHOOOO BOY!!!! THAT would be something awesome that nobody has done before.
Ryan Hoover
@shpigford @philipsajeesh can't we all just get along! *HUGS!* 😊
Stephen Campbell
Love the CTA in the menu on mobile (haven't viewed desktop yet) - Also appreciate the stack-esque minimalist UI. Cheers!
Leandro
What a great idea, Josh! Subscribed, so can't wait to get stuck in.
Matt Pickle
@shpigford This. Is. Awesome.
Josh Pigford
@mattpickle_ Thanks so much, Matt!
James McCarthy
Nice work! Looks good. How often will you team be publishing content?
Josh Pigford
@jjjams We've got a huge backlog of stuff, so hopefully weekly.
Roman
Great start but .... there are tons of tons of articles about how to start and what to do. Do we need just another articles site ? May be this should be learn by doing ? instead of learn by reading ...
Samir Doshi
really awesome resource