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It is true of all successful startups, that “the founder never gave up.” So it becomes a “law of success.” Of course, sometimes people don't give up, but never find success. So, it's necessary, but not sufficient. https://t.co/A24ObNAAP4
Building projects isn’t just about learning. It’s about testing the waters. Before you commit — build. In product: MVPs. In growth: experiments. For your skills? Minimum viable projects.
In 1984, Dyson was rejected by every UK manufacturer. So he fled to Japan for 18 months, broke and desperate... Today, Dyson's $25B empire makes Apple, Samsung & LG scramble to copy his designs. Here are the 3 philosophies he found in Japan...
Everyone on a Monday morning: 'Ugh, another week.' Ecom founders on a Monday morning: 'New week, new ad budget, new tests to run.' Different mindset. Different life.
Poppi started in a home kitchen and sold to PepsiCo for $1.95B. Allison Ellsworth tested recipes on her husband, sold at a farmers market, landed on Shark Tank, and went viral on TikTok—driving $100K in Amazon sales overnight. They invested $90K and...
everyone claims they want "contrarian" founders but what they actually want - founders with a non-obvious insight that happens to align with an explosive market This is bc contrarian + right = visionary. contrarian + wrong = unemployed
You can build an agent but it is blind without data. The founders of @RunCaptainRAG applied their NLP research in their startup to create automated file search. Really accurate results within Garry's List. Here they are at the YC MV...
Entrepreneurs: NEVER beg a VC for a check. Focus on growing your REVENUE. Then, VCs will beg you to take their check…trust me 🙏🏾
Had a customer in my inbox today “Please send me the link to sign up, I’m sold already. and I hope if you’re offering any add ons, I will also be privy to those.” Literally what dreams are made of as...
just received my first vibe coded "investor update and ask portal" from an early stage startup. the long-tail of DIY highly-tailored software is upon us...
If a fast decision is wrong, that’s more OK, because you find out fast, and change it fast. Slow decisions, the opposite. If “slow” dramatically decreases risk of it being wrong, make it slow. Else, make it fast. More fast/slow tips: https://t.co/KbLhQOhKZH
99 rejections building @eightsleep IQ gets you in the room, but pain tolerance keeps you there
Your most important job as a founder: eliminate mediocrity. And here's my favorite quote on this from Frank Slootman: -- "Mediocrity is the silent killer. Organizations are not getting killed by their C players. Everybody knows who they are, and performance eventually is...
The story has to come from the founder. This frustrates people. Founders want to delegate storytelling the same way they delegate other functions. Hire a head of marketing and let them own it. Bring in a communications expert and hand...
New innovation: Just as at a well-run startup, there are CEO, engineering manager and design reviews, GStack now helps you keep track of what reviews are run, figures out what is appropriate (e.g. CEO doesn't have to look at infra...
There's a specific kind of exhaustion that comes from being busy on the wrong things. Being stuck in tasks that don't compound is one of the worst things that can happen to a founder/CEO. Before I stepped down as CEO, I tracked...
A VC’s job is to say yes. The ones who say yes are betting their reputation on you. Make it easy for them to believe.
There’s a guy in Hampton who bootstrapped a lifestyle apparel company to 9-figures with his twin brother. Alec Todd and his bro started with just $3k. Started Cove Apparel in Jan 2020. 2025: $38M in revenue, 22% EBITDA 2026: on track to...
Most founders would never admit this, but they've had panic attacks or anxiety episodes because they're stuck to the business. How much is the ops chaos costing you?
Before there was a "cleantech" industry, there was Tim Healy. Tim figured out that he could route electricity through digital switches and create an energy marketplace. Companies could trade and share their energy when they weren't using it, then back it...
Imagine losing $100,000/month… @mbrown_co lost a total of $1.5 million in just 18 months. But he said the worst part was losing his peace. Yet when he looks back on it now, he sees it as a gift. Search "Nathan Barry Show" to...
"It's really hard to enter a market if there's an existing incumbent." So Zhong Xu launched Deliverect in every country at the same time. 7 years later: #1 or #2 in all of them. https://t.co/fbRQrowVSQ
"it's because we are attracting founders that actually want to be employees. They don't think and say 'if I don't pull this off, I'm going to become bankrupt. My life is over.'" incredibly based take
Many founders wait until growth slows before thinking about selling or raising capital, but the irony is: buyers and investors are often most interested when a business is performing at its best. In this episode of Vista Point Advisors The...
Sometimes you meet a founder and instantly know they'll be successful. A pattern I look for: a hacker mindset + ability to run through walls. Thanks for including us (x3), @mohaknahta.
A few years ago... I made $270K in a year as a solo freelancer. No investors. No big city network. No team. Here’s the playbook I ran: 1) Own your name online. 2) Publish proof, not promises. 3) Deliver more than you’re paid for. 4)...
#ThisDayInTechHistory. March 17, 1971. Paul Allen was kicked out of the University of Washington's Computer Lab. About 4 years later he would co-found @Microsoft. Years later the University would name the lab after him. #Computer...
In the last 12 months, we invested in 8 companies, 5 were repeat founders. Before starting these new companies, those 5 had already: - Raised $200M+, IPO’d one startup, and sold another for 9 figures - Raised $100M+, scaled to $50M+ ARR, and...
Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival If you started a company more than two years ago, it’s likely that many of your assumptions are no longer true. You need to stop coding, building, recruiting, fund raising, etc., and take...
A founder fed customer interviews into ChatGPT to extract jobs-to-be-done. Output wasn't wrong. Just goofy. It missed hesitation, energy, contradictions. The tension: AI is useful and easy to misuse. AI-assisted ✅ speeds up your work AI-led ❌ replaces judgment
Excited to scale this to the moon this year and share our learnings along the way📈
We talk a lot about the future of work. Clara Lucio is living it. She just went out on her own — and wrote about it in a way that I think is going to resonate with a lot of...
R1 starts up with $78M, aiming for a better kidney drug https://t.co/PQQjX47ODM by @gwendolynawu #biotecjh #startups
If you want to help more people, charge enough to stay in the game long enough to matter.
A VC event where no one said “AI moat.” Instead, influencers heard pitches for diamond memorials, soda startups, and underground robots. The room cared less about spreadsheets and more about attention. Founders need reach. Creators want equity. Both trade on followers. Is audience the...
I was feeling nostalgic and asked ChatGPT to tell me about Zivity and I started crying. Even if we failed, we are in the corpus of humanity and our efforts helped shape much of what is considered "normal" today as...
Funded start-ups building the same product become competitors. Indie start-ups building the same product become friends. Indie start-ups only need $10k MRR to succeed. The market is so big that it is unrealistic and unnecessary for two independent developers to “compete” with...
Who are the best openclaw and agentic system builders out there? I’m building something, it’s super raw, and want to get feedback. Could be big.
This is why building in public, as fun and empowering as it is, has severe limits. Competitors have a significantly easier time now than before AI to build functionally critical-mass-escaping clones to swipe the bottom of the barrel. Lots of founders are...
Everyone's delaying TGEs and waiting for better conditions right now but Katana is pushing forward anyway and i respect that. Ive built through multiple bear markets myself, you learn pretty quickly that the teams who show up when conditions are ugly...
Pretty much all my monthly meetings with my founder peers is discussing: - how we're keeping up with ai - showing off stuff we've built - learning from one another
This interview with @travisk is business school speedrun https://t.co/wAN9fIwDTl For founders, it's worth watching in its entirety. And if you're fundraising, channel your inner TK.
SPVs are one of the most powerful tools in private markets. Most people have no idea how they actually work. Entity formation. Legal docs. Compliance filings. Capital calls. K-1s. + more. Verivend put together the clearest breakdown I've seen on how to actually...
A portfolio founder we initially supported through 5050 pre-company just shared revenue has grown to $400,000. A day. Nothing more satisfying than seeing a sparkle in a founder's eye grow into a real company creating impact at scale.
I lost $9k on a product that was trending on TikTok. The trend died in a week. I launched a product that solves a timeless boring problem. It's been selling for 2 years. The market doesn't care about trends. It...
The new AI-native companies are leaner, meaner, and move fast. The sabertooth tigers are coming for the giant sloths.
"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." – Bill Gates Negative feedback is invaluable. 💡 Use it to improve your products and services and turn dissatisfied customers into loyal advocates.
The gap between "I can build this" and "this is worth building" has never been wider. AI closed the first one completely. The second one is still yours. Speed has never been cheaper. Imagination has never mattered more.
IACrea just got a game-changer for internationalization: @subclip_app I record a tutorial a video in French, Pick a language in Sub, And got my video translated and dubbed automatically ! I used to record only in French my video (biggest iacrea audience), and...
Making a product is not that hard. Getting it into as many hands as you can? That's what kills most startups. Zhong Xu scaled Deliverect to 80,000 customers because he treated sales as an engineering problem. https://t.co/WlxbWnSSjZ
