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okay, founders/VCs can test the alpha version now... https://t.co/AQNDNk7N2l some notes: - will extract startup details/VC interest (after call) - i have access to transcription/notes - you will be able to see your own - a verification steps checks to see if you're a VC/founder first, but unfortunately that info does not pass to AI Yohei - it's far from perfect, but solid for a 2 night build built with @replit agent, and @runwayml characters
One course can't do three different jobs. Mike's was trying to funnel people into coaching, work as a standalone product, AND serve student athletes. How it started? Funneling people into coaching. How it went? Serving solopreneurs and a standalone and student athletes,...
We just changed Refindie’s pricing (affiliate management system) to support early stage businesses. I know how heavy monthly costs feel when you’re just starting. So we removed the barrier and introduced a one-time payment. Small businesses deserve to get affiliates too 🙏
#ThisDayInTechHistory. March 9, 2023. @ElonMusk founds xAI and officially announced the artificial intelligence company on July 12, 2023. (ABC 7 Chicago) #AI https://t.co/0JnnnqO4yT
Controversial opinion. Most coding bootcamps are preparing people for jobs that AI will automate in 3 years. The skill that matters now is not writing code. It's knowing what to build and for whom. Learn to talk to users. The rest is...
He maxed out $50K in credit cards to start a data company while in law school. He worked 7am to 3pm on the business, then sat in class until 10pm. For 3 years, he paid himself $24K and used each new customer...
Founder Friends is coming to San Francisco on March 23, 2026! This will be a great one. We'll hear from @alexmodon and @willsclips_ for a fireside chat. Learn more >> https://t.co/LIsjwWgOJW
The difference between successful business owners and shitty business owners: They know how to get rid of incompetent people. If you are too afraid to fire people, you will never be a good entrepreneur. 50% of humans are incompetent.
65% of founders report feeling overwhelmed regularly. You’re not bad at time management. You’re overcommitted. Here’s a 5-step fix: https://t.co/NSN09jpDaQ
One of the biggest things B2B startups miss is underselling the "personal ROI" to the buyer or user of your technology. I spent time with a leadership team of a B2B startup yesterday and the topic of demonstrating ROI came up. We...
Viktor is one of my favorite Replit entrepreneurs. They’re on track to build a multimillion dollar business — he shares his journey here:
One of the quickest things that becomes obvious when I start working with someone new is that they're almost always doing better than they thought. They come to me convinced they can't afford to pay themselves or that things just aren't...
🇯🇵📍🇺🇸 Update: PayPay’s US IPO • Priced at $16/share • Below the $17–$20 target range • Raised $880M • Valuation: $10.7B The softer pricing highlights continued caution in the IPO market. via Reuters https://t.co/N76UYrg8Dt
Day 1 of Made to Scale in Nashville 🤠 @louisecarmenparis journals on the table, wisdom from @roryvaden in the room, powerful conversations with female founders building businesses that matter… and some of the best Made to Scale babies in the room....
"We kept a single capital structure and I will encourage new startups to go in that direction. You can choose equity or token but you can't have both. You end up with conflicting priorities" @syrupsid https://t.co/Cc4ufu0Lcr
The most taxing life chapters yield the most long-term nostalgia. The harder something is, the more you'll appreciate it later. So reframe whatever you "hate" right now as something you will love & cherish later. For me: Building my $180K/month ghostwriting agency...
Dear Founders, As you build with AI, remember this: Analytics → drives insights Insights → drive growth strategy Growth strategy → drives startup growth. Features don’t grow startups. Growth strategy does. AI can help you build faster. But data is what tells you what to build,...
sara’s list is back the rules are simple, the company must.. - have product market fit - be funded, be growing (and probably has oat milk in the company fridge) - be able to 5x in 5 years, i.e $200k in stock can become...
If you don't have this problem, you're falling behind: OH: "I used to manage 10 IC engineers. Now I manage 10 engineers that each manage 10 agents. So now I'm a manager of managers... I've had to build an entire pipeline...
A startup founded by teenagers is already valued at over $1 billion. Aaru is betting that AI bots can predict human behavior more accurately than traditional analytics. Major brands like McDonald’s and EY are already paying attention. https://t.co/49wjGtcmnE @VranicaWSJ @wsj
You wrote an SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) for something you’ve never done. That’s not a system. That’s a guess. You haven’t onboarded a single client yet, but you have a 12-step onboarding document. You haven’t hired anyone, but you’ve got a...
One very interesting change in “the new guard” of innovative dev tools startups: Many of their founders + lots of their devs are on social media, responding to their customers (devs), sharing new features / bugfixes etc Stark contrast to past ones...
Someone asked this question in Hampton’s Slack: “what’s the most expensive lesson you’ve learned?” - My cofounder Joe lost a $100M deal when Facebook changed the algo mid-acquisition. - Another took a company from $9M EBITDA to -$5M in one year. - A third...
I've met several VC-funded one-person startups in the past few months - another sign of the AI coding age.
AI Podcast Start-Up Rebel Audio Launches App With Invite-Only Access, Taps Mark Burnett as Adviser (EXCLUSIVE) https://t.co/C0nR4IG3VQ
Founders: the real lesson from the SVB collapse three years ago wasn’t “diversify your bank.” It was this: find out now -- in good times -- whether your investor will wire money with no strings when everything breaks. Most won’t....
are you a founder building something for the data center economy? hosting a "pitch night" on sunday, march 15, in downtown SF before GTC with trillions deployed into compute infrastructure, generational companies will be built here details + apply here: https://t.co/HjvMRSg43a
Building a software company was a marathon and now it requires sprinting the entire marathon distance.
The “overnight success” you admire? It took: – 2 years of unpaid learning – 17 rejected applications – Countless unfinished projects We see the launch. We don’t see the loneliness. Stay long enough. Your time will come.
Bright green flags Century AI reached "Product Market Fit" 🙌 Yesterday someone left this comment; (btw @whoop you can still buy us for €1m)
Stories You Won't Find Anywhere Else 👇 Ex-Stanford Athletes’ Tampon Startup Takes on Growing Market https://t.co/6PmYKk2qgF via @sportico @LuisaRBeltran
A pattern I've noticed: A lot of founders say they want freedom. But what they protect most is control. Learning to let go is the real work.
Some think that bc there are problems it means you must be doing it wrong. Maybe. Check in:
She co-founded Tinder and got pushed out of her own company. So she built her own app and crushed them and became the youngest self-made woman billionaire in history. This is her story:
Spotify started with free music and ads. Ad revenue failed to cover high label fees, and free users saw no reason to upgrade. So Spotify put mobile, offline downloads, and no ads behind Premium. By the 2020s, about 85% of revenue came from...
For a long time great advice for founders was “don’t try to innovate on basic organizational practices.” The roles you need, executive jobs, ratios, spend in each area, and operational methods are kind of known in major classes of company....
Why I keep saying this is the most exciting time in business history. You can ship your product from idea to revenue before the big guys get back from their team ideation lunch.
Aswath Damodaran on the determinants of a company's lifecycle "What allows companies to grow quickly are: ease of scaling up, how quickly you can enter businesses, and how little capital you need to grow. But what causes companies to decline are...
🗞️@AnthropicAI is expanding to Australia 🇦🇺and New Zealand🇳🇿, opening a Sydney office in the coming weeks—its fourth APAC office alongside Tokyo🇯🇵, Bengaluru🇮🇳, and Seoul🇰🇷—to support growing demand and better serve the region’s AI ecosystem. https://t.co/DGe5jbueVm
If you're a founder, picking the nice investor won't get you far. You don't need someone to tell you you're smart. That's what your mom is for. You need someone who can dole out the hard truths about your business,...
Churn is the worst reason to have slow growth. Churn means you're not just unknown, or that there's a big threshold to sign up. It means people are actually trying the product and deciding they don't like it.
Most SaaS companies report about a 1% conversion rate - you need 100 visitors to make 1 sale. This means your maximum CPC should be 1% of your maximum CAC. Here’s how to calculate all these things: https://t.co/LXBj3k7vLd
Our team drives @google's global accelerators, and we've just kicked off the seventh @GoogleStartups Accelerator: Canada cohort. We chosen fourteen outstanding Canadian-founded startups for this class. Learn more about each one: https://t.co/K5sbIaA7Mw
A full time job feels like the safe option. It isn’t. @cindygallop breaks down why working for yourself can be the real security, and I couldn’t agree more. I took that leap as the main breadwinner for my family, moving from the...
Noetic (@getnoetic) uses AI agents to automate end-to-end compliance workflows, so hardware products can get to markets 10x faster. Congrats on the launch, @togao0, @henrypzheng & @J4ckJ1Y! https://t.co/yDKh3UF6ks https://t.co/bMZ4rFcPBK
Call for Experts: Small Business Funding Expert Panel – Harper College This panel will give aspiring entrepreneurs the opportunity to hear directly from experts about funding options, financial strategy, and real-world insights related to starting and growing a business. This is a volunteer engagement,...
How to see opportunities others miss: 1) Study a totally different field, then return to the original problem. Apply insights from other domains. 2) Invert the problem. Try to achieve the opposite. 3) Find ways to engage with hyper-creative people. Their thinking will...
AI writes your code. Users write your roadmap. The only thing you need to write yourself is the vision.
India has 12M+ Kirana stores, yet the average owner still spends 4-6 hours a week traveling to wholesale markets just to keep stock. We’re building [Brand Name] to kill that inefficiency. We’re hiring a Head of Supply Chain & FMCG Ops to...
Creativity, invention, ideation. • vs - Consistent execution, planning, good decisions. Are they two different modes, or do you have to learn to do both? Or is one actually not that useful?
