https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7052097408586940417/
Thus far as of 5 June 2023, I have 359 subscribers with 5 issues.
Historically, I had created a conference that had over 1000 attendees, so it should be doable. However the conference took 3 years to build up to 1000 attendees.
Link to Newsletter tracker:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1necr6bX0p_HPhEnWSxOmoJgP3a_N2PsrFrWRLVpMKI4/edit?pli=1#gid=0
Turns out LinkedIn limits your growth to a function of your own network...they push huge amounts of subscribers in at the beginning, but growth is logarithmic, not exponential. E.g. you get an initial fast expansion, but after that point it flattens out. It's a complete vanity thing so I gave it up.
Based upon initial (fast) and current (slow) growth rates, here are some predictions using linear regression for where I may be at toward the end of the year. This is dependent upon https://manifold.markets/PatrickDelaney/will-i-successfully-write-and-publi