Episodes

Newsletters are not dead Dylan from Growth in Reverse breaks down how indie founders and B2B operators are building 5-figure audiences and monetizing with just email. He shares the underrated metric every newsletter creator should track, how to launch a newsletter from scratch, and why owning your distribution is your biggest unfair advantage. We also go deep on: - Sponsorships - Paid ads - Personal vs Company branding - How to stay consistent even when life gets in the way Whether you're just starting or scaling, this episode is a must-listen. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 Connect with Dylan Newsletter: https://www.growthinreverse.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylanredekop/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ About the Host I'm Abhinav Sinha, host of Funds & Founders—a podcast for Austin entrepreneurs navigating early-stage startups. I explore the highs, lows, and breakthrough moments of local founders through candid conversations, and sit down with VCs to uncover how they…

Building a startup can feel lonely. You make decisions with incomplete information, learn things the hard way, and hope you're moving in the right direction. In this episode, I spoke with Chelsea Cooper, Founder & CEO of Approvely, about the lessons that only come from actually building—not from books or Twitter threads. We talked about: Learning the hard way why distribution matters Building in tough, regulated industries like payments and gaming Growing a company without VC money or a tech...