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lots of non-AI native startups funded in the 2020-2025 timeframe trying to figure out: - can you reinvent the product to be AI-native? - do you pivot towards AI? - or just use AI in the backoffice, and ride it out? opportunity cost is the hardest thing to calculate. The most dangerous startups aren't the ones with no revenue -- they're the ones with just enough revenue to keep going
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The day I became a millionaire was the emptiest day of my life. The alarm didn't go off that day because I didn't set one. For the first time in years, there was nowhere I had to be. No urgent...
When a founder is “difficult,” that means… they’re arguing every point. They have conviction. They have a deep vision for what they're building. For investors, those are all positive traits. Find out why the best founders are otherwise unemployable, why...
Keller Rinaudo Cliffton from Zipline thought making the drones would be the hardest part. It was only 15% of the problem. The company spent 9 months figuring out delivery for one hospital. Weeks of all-nighters. Building inventory software in a...
I turned The Minimalist Entrepreneur into 9 Claude Code skills. /find-community — find your people /validate-idea — test before you build /mvp — ship in a weekend /first-customers — sell to 100 people /pricing — charge something /marketing-plan — make fans, not headlines /grow-sustainably — spend less...
In this episode of Founder Firesides, YC's @harjtaggar talks to @wuweiweiwu and @itsjeffan, co-founders of @MomenticAI, who just raised a $15M Series A. Momentic is the verification layer for software. The AI-powered testing platform impersonates end users to catch bugs before...
Just found out Bernard Arnault is a lurker on here and he's rolling into DMs asking to invest millions in early stage startups 👀 https://t.co/t7PCwg5Mdj
Here are 8 high-revenue one-person companies: No co-founders. No employees. No VC. Just one founder and leverage that didn't exist 3 years ago. Bookmark this. You'll come back to it.
This founder lost a $500,000 deal with one sentence. Instead of asking about the problem first, he jumped into a generic AI pitch full of buzzwords. That is how deals quietly die. Do you start with the pitch or the problem? https://t.co/gNddet5n0N
Tomorrow needs to be tended to by planting new seeds. New companies. New growth. New capital. And that's just not going to happen if the Danish state declares itself at war with capital formation or accumulation. https://t.co/rMQy0eKrr3
Paid ads won’t save your startup. If you chase CTR and CAC before product fit, you ignore the real problem. You don’t need a budget to market, you need effort: DM users, show up at events, post in forums, fix your SEO,...
the best founders i know have one unfair advantage - they love learning. they treat every customer call, mistake, and weird edge case like free tuition.
If you want to stay stuck at $1M: - Launch a second brand before your first one is working - Chase revenue instead of building enterprise value - Hire a FB agency - Hire someone the moment you feel overwhelmed instead of building a...
If you can't walk away from your business and come back to it stronger than when you left You've just built yourself a high-paying job. Full conversation on the Open Residency podcast.
Hiring one of these type of people can change the course of your business.
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Thanks, @tim for our great chat in @ft about @airstreet epoch 3! “One of the reasons to go bigger now is the opportunity set has accelerated dramatically” “Companies want to raise faster and raise larger rounds, so you need to adapt the...
I released GStack 2 weeks ago and we're still growing I made it because I was realizing: every software engineering project is changing. How could I accelerate the way I saw @steipete accelerate? GStack is my gift to everyone who wants...
Excited to share that Ballistic Ventures led the Series A investment in Above Security, as the company emerges from stealth today with $50M in funding. Insider risk is one of the most persistent - and misunderstood - problems in cybersecurity. It’s...
Mastering SaaS unit economics is the difference between hoping growth happens and knowing it will. In our latest mastermind, we explored why every SaaS founder needs to know: ▪️ CAC, LTV, ARPA, churn, and customer lifespan ▪️ How to calculate...
A $20/mo product is just as much work to make and sell as a $10/mo product, but it requires 1/2 the customers before you can quit your day job or hire your next employee. And it’s far more profitable, because the...
Christian (Chris) Bach (CEO @ Netlify )'s framework for becoming the obvious choice in your category: Start with a strong worldview about where the market is going. Then reverse engineer what needs to exist for that future to happen. Then...
Building a new product? Don't compete on features. When I built Kit, competitors had already been building for over a decade. Rather than match their feature list, I found two gaps and went as deep as I could on both. Narrow the...
I built my entire ghostwriting agency, 300+ clients, millions of dollars in revenue, with ZERO testimonials. This is something beginners have a very hard time wrapping their heads around. • Clients do not care about social proof. • Clients do not care if...
Ubicloud is building the open source alternative to AWS and it's unbelievable what that means for running compute in the cloud Imagine this savings for every bit of your cloud spend. It's going to be marvelous. @UbicloudHQ https://t.co/LUrNXgpnYW
A pattern I’ve noticed: the founders who scale fastest are those committed to boring business. They track a few basic measurables and keep things simple.
Satellite IoT/D2D startup @OQTEC: 2 more sats launch this spring, 5 more by year's end. New @EIB funding of $29M permits construction of 20 more. Commercial service in Australia starts this yr. https://t.co/arOtFaMzlq https://t.co/Kyagh8JBOM
Everyone sees a price: 'That's expensive.' Ecom founders see a price: 'What's the value and what's the ROI?' Different mindset. Different way of thinking.
Adsense is incredibly low amounts of money Photo AI would make $150/month with 156,000 visitors ($1 CPM) Now it makes $110,000/month with subscriptions instead so about 700x more
Before Smart Bear: I always had doubts, I never felt confident, I almost broke down several times and gave up, I had to be convinced just to do the second startup, I'm terrible at time-management, I didn't know anything about accounting...
Careers rarely unfold in a straight line. Mine certainly did not. I began as an English major, earned a doctorate in medieval and Renaissance literature, taught for four years, then left academia for high tech. That path eventually led me...
I ran a simple experiment with 6 solo founders: No new tools. No templates. Just: one shared workspace AI “teammates” that remembered every convo a sequenced checklist from “idea” → “customer interviews” Result after 2 weeks: Less context-switching. More actual founder work getting done. The lesson: Founders don’t need...
Founder-Led Coding: Something that I think we’re about to see pretty often with the massive increase of entrepreneurial but non-technical founders who can use AI code gen to build their v1 products we’re about to see founder led coding. Founder led sales:...
1/2 the startup world belie their narcissistic bloated egos saying “it’s 90% genius,” while 1/2 excuse their lack of success or progress as “it’s 90% luck”. In fact they’re both right. Without luck you’re born a serf in a remote region...
GStack is only 10% power of what it's like to actually come and go through a Y Combinator batch
Everyone wants to own a business built on organic traffic (rather than paid ads). The problem is, no one wants to write organic content every single day for 3 years.
101 of ai automations or agents for founders: Hire somebody to do it manually. Map out all the processes. Build automations around it. You can save 5x on resources.
possibly the sharpest VC marketing move I've seen... @garrytan ships 15 claude code skills, the repo hits 37k stars and 4.6k forks, then -- only after delivering real value - drops the pitch, bravo 👏: https://t.co/5Vz4Or0r6T
I read three books yesterday. One about founder mental health, one by hiking monks, one about quitting the default path. All three are about the same thing. https://t.co/WBnSqSVEnD
Meta just pulled back on the Metaverse after spending ~$80B. Here's what actually went wrong 👇 In 2021, Zuckerberg renamed Facebook to Meta and positioned the Metaverse as the next chapter of the internet. Now Meta is killing VR access...
I lost $11k on a beauty product with 'perfect' packaging. Market said meh. I tested a product with basic packaging but solved a real problem. Scaled to $60k/month. The market doesn't care about pretty. It cares about solutions. Test everything.
There's a vast marketing industrial complex of agencies/consultants/advisors/whatever that promotes tech startups spending billions of dollars of unaccountable marketing budget. They're triggered by my anti-paid stance but here's the reality: - paid marketing is much, much worse than organic on every metric...
I built https://t.co/M8688t4CuW because I kept watching brilliant marketers drown in execution.... Great ideas. Zero amplification. The creation was never the bottleneck. It was always what happened after publish.
How do you build a company that $JNJ will buy for $15 billion? Listen here.
reflecting upon the founding teams I admire most (and always aspire to build): - they made something hot vs. joining something hot (and endured doubts / not being understood by the friends for a few years. - they tackled an industry or...
I’ve spoken to 10 VC candidates in the last 3 months. Every single one had to build something from scratch in their interview. No spec. No tool recommendations. 2-5 days. Just: figure it out. The bar has shifted. I wrote about what’s...
Most founders don’t fail from lack of ideas. They fail from copying systems built for giants. Complex org charts. Endless meetings. Approval chains. Speed is your only unfair advantage. Don’t trade it for “looking legit.” Prototype fast. Test cheap. Kill what doesn’t work. Cash buys time. Time buys learning. Learning buys survival. Stay...
What's being a startup founder really like? "You have to keep your head when somebody slaps in you the face in the morning," says Star Catcher CEO @theandrewrush. "And then somebody shakes your hand and tells you you're doing a great job...
Progress is > than perfection. This is a clip from my coaching program Most people keep postponing because their project is not perfect I say publish it anyway You can always go back and update it later But you’ll get more clarity around what...
