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Our 7 Favorite Newsletters

Newsletters have been around for many many years. Probably even for hundreds of years. With the rise of email marketing in the early 2000’s, sending news updates and other information became more common. Yet, in the past 4 to 5 years new types of online publishing platforms have appeared which made it easier for publishers to monetize their content. For example, in 2017 launched Substack now claims to have more than 500.000 paid subscriptions, generating over $15 million of revenue per year. At the same time, the largest social media networks and search engines of the world dramatically changed the face of traditional print media. Following the above mentioned developments, we wanted to share our current most popular selection of newsletters with you. 

Recommendations 

  1. Check Your Pulse by Sari Azout 

    Sari Azout is a seed stage investor, design-thinker, product strategist, and storyteller. With her newsletter, she aims at bringing more humanity and creativity to technology and business. 

  2. Future by a16z 

    No need to introduce Andreessen Horowitz, one of the most famous venture capital companies in the world. With the Future newsletter, a16z explores how technology is transforming our world, from crypto and biology to gaming and social networks. 

  3. Not Boring by Packy McCormick 

    This newsletter includes two emails per week: Not Boring keeps you up to date about what’s going on in business and strategy behind the decisions global companies make. 

  4. Lenny’s Newsletter by Lenny Rachitsky 

    This weekly newsletter written by Lenny Rachitsky is an advice column about product, growth, working with humans, and anything else that might stress you out at the office. 

  5. Future Atelier by Pavel Romanenko 

    Pavel Romanenko, professional innovation analyst, curates this newsletter in a collection of use cases by the world’s 50 most innovative companies. 

  6. The Flywheel by Jake Singer 

    In this newsletter, Jake Singer, former Amazon Product Manager, uses Amazon’s famous Flywheel as a framework to understand and analyze companies. In each article he explains how and why a company has gotten to where it is today, and what the flywheel suggests about their future prospects. 

  7. Stratechery by Ben Thompsom 

    The Stratechery newsletter provides an analysis of the strategy and business side of technology and media, and the impact of technology on society. You can find the articles on his blog too. 


An additional newsletter recommendation from our side: If you want to learn more about the latest trends and events in the field of circular economy, feel free to subscribe to our CE newsletter - every month a curated and commented selection of news with a focus on business model innovation.

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