Choose Tech Wisely: Ask These Six Critical Questions
A lot of business owners don’t fail at Tech & AI they fail at choosing the right tech. Before you spend money, ask: – Does it solve a real problem? – Can I learn it fast? – Does it integrate with my tools? – Can it scale with me? – What’s the real cost (time too)? – Is there support when I’m stuck?
AI Agents Run Your Company While You Set Vision
I tried Paperclip - an open source project that lets you set up an "autonomous company" with multiple AI agents. The concept is wild: you act as a board member setting vision while agents coordinate to build and run the...
Solo AI Startups Poised for Massive Profits
First of many single person companies that will make a boatload of money due to AI.
Discovering Molly's Unique Method for Selecting Founders
Had a wonderful lunch today with @mollyfmielke where I learned about her unique approach to finding the right founders she wants to work with and fun. She has a very intriguing approach. https://t.co/inLJ3UvoRl
Guiding Friends to Leave Jobs and Launch Companies Rewards You
Helping friends quit their jobs and start companies (not even startups) is one of the most rewarding things in life
Must‑Read VC Guides Every New Investor Needs
10 venture capital guides I wish I had on day 1 of being in VC👇
Productivity Edge Is Short‑lived; Act Now
Rory is correct. For startups extreme productivity is already tablestakes amongst your peers. For larger orgs there's maybe a year of edge in it against your big competitors before it's just adapted or died. In no world do you have...
Align Your Marketing Systems, Turn $250k Yearly Into $250k Monthly
My client went from $250k a year to $250k in a single month. Same offer. Same audience. She didn’t add anything new. She aligned the marketing systems she already had. If you’re a female founder earning $150k–$500k, I want to teach you...
From Lehman Collapse to $25M Bootstrapped SaaS
In 2008, Lehman Brothers collapsed, and my job got regulated out of existence with it. In 2025, I hit $25M ARR with no VC funding and a team of under 35. I’m Adam, and this is my story of...
Know When to Exit: Cool Factor Vanishes Fast
Prominent media investor told me something a while back that stuck with me (paraphrasing): "two types of founders - ones who know when to sell and ones who hold on for too long. If your company trades on cool, better...
Lowering Barriers Unlocks Biotech’s Biggest Potential
What if the biggest unlock in biotech is simply access? Douglas Crawford built MBC BioLabs to lower barriers and enable 500+ startups. Excited to have him at SynBioBeta 2026. Visit the @SynBioBeta website to read the full article. https://t.co/HEfhvmwZ8i
Profit Over Revenue: Diversify for True Business Freedom
I know founders doing $10M/year who are one algorithm change away from bankruptcy. I know founders doing $300k/year with 5 different traffic sources who sleep like a baby. Revenue is vanity. Profit is sanity. Diversification is freedom.
One Viral Video Turned a $300 Prototype Into $2B Deal
Before he sold his VR headset to Meta for $2 BILLION... Palmer Luckey was just a teenager tinkering in his garage. Until one video of his goofy prototype caught the eye of a powerful person. Here's how a single post turned...
Black Women Entrepreneurs Surge, yet Remain Severely Underfunded
Black women are the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs, and also the least funded. A lot of us aren't just chasing a dream, we're escaping a workplace that didn't value us, didn't see us, didn't make room for us.
Real Series A Winners Thrive Amid Messy Challenges
Series A “winners” rarely become the real big winners. Everyone's chasing the obvious picks: -The one with the famous founder -The company with the flashiest pitch deck -The startup that's already getting press coverage The real winners are quietly building. At Series A: → Tesla was bleeding...
Big‑Stake Decisions Turn Money Into Deployable Ammo
The moment I started making $100M decisions, money stopped feeling like ‘real’ money to me. Sounds impossible to understand until you've been through the conditioning process that leads up to it. By the time the stakes are genuinely terrifying you've already...
Success Comes From Inner Work, Not Just Harder Grinding
The female founders hitting $500K to $1M aren’t grinding harder than you. They’ve just gone deeper. The inner work, the body work, the identity work. That’s where everything shifted for them. You’re one decision away from going all the way in on yourself.
Entrepreneurship Risks vs Guaranteed Stagnation in a Bad Job
Them: "The business you wanna start has a 50% chance of failing." Me: "The soul-sucking job you're clinging to has a 100% chance of keeping you stuck." It's just basic statistics...
Launch a Side Hustle, Transition Risk‑Free to Full‑Time
It really doesn't have to be some big "leap of faith" Start a business while at your job. Grow it for a few years until it makes enough money to support your lifestyle + allows you to reinvest. Then leave to...
Thriving After Leaving Corporate: Startup Life Wins
Me, Surviving 6 months without that Google FAT paycheck after leaving corporate—and still not dying 🤣😂 Just building my tech startup… and honestly, living my best life. 🙏🏽
Launch a $M Business in 90 Days with AI
If I had to start over tomorrow with nothing but a laptop and Claude, here’s how I’d build a multi-million dollar business in 90 days. I'd create a 5-person AI department that works 24/7. Let me introduce you to the team…
Scaling Fast Can Cost More Than Funding
New @ThePeelPod with @sophiaamoruso We talk bootstrapping her vintage Ebay store Nasty Gal to $28m revenue, raising $50m, turning down a $400m acquisition offer, and declaring bankruptcy a few years later. We talk about what it was like failing so publicly, what...
Give Employees a Real Strategy Before Demanding Innovation
"Be more strategic" -> before you give that advice, have you (or your org): Shared a clear 3 year plan for where the company is going? Shared the overall strategy to achieve that? Translated that strategy to the department of your employee? Elaborated beyond...
Teenage Founders Now Outpace Seasoned Entrepreneurs, Timeline Accelerates
I went to Austin Rief's house for dinner with eight founders recently. - One guy raised $140 million - The oldest guy in the room was 25 - A bunch of them were building 7-figure media companies - They told me they already feel...
Reform Turns Into the Very System It Opposes
Baffling pivot by Reform. They're morphing into that which they purport to be an alternative to.
You’re Not Alone: Community Beats Solo Weight‑Loss Journey
Founder Diaries Day 2 - About feeling less alone. Community. Something I feel very strongly about while building MYRESET — treatment alone is not enough. Especially for weight loss. It can be quite scary… injections, side effects, all the unknowns. Yes, doctor support matters. But honestly,...
Leaders Scale by Hiring Experts, Not Doing Everything
You are not supposed to be the best at everything in your business. You are supposed to have the vision, set direction, build the environment And hire people who can execute better than you. That’s how you scale.
Busy Professionals Need AI Screen Recorder—Seeking Testers
I could use some help. I'm not the kind of person to raise my hand and ask for help. I was taught that if you want something, you work hard for it. So that's how I live my life. I try to build things...
AI Powers $1.8B Automated
It's just an automated GLP-1 prescription mill -- nothing to lionize. How A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8 Billion Company https://t.co/t00YcMDgKw
From $250M Losses to $100B IPO: Chesky's Turnaround
Airbnb lost 80% of its business in 8 WEEKS during COVID. They were bleeding $250M/month and on the verge of collapse. One year later? They IPO'd at $100B. Brian's leadership turnaround is the greatest crisis management story in modern business. Here's how he pulled...
Focus on the Invisible Layer for Real Leverage
The more I looked at build in public, the more I felt like most people show the visible layer: updates, launches, wins, motion. But the real leverage lives in the invisible layer: systems, feedback loops, pattern recognition, distribution mechanics. That invisible layer is what I care about now.
Q1 Sports Tech Sprint: Partnerships, Funding, New Tools
Q1 sports tech and @sportstechatlanta recap Attended the superbowl, nba all star, Indian wells, and some NBA games in between. Crafted partnerships for a couple partners We are hoping to close funding rounds for two clients in early q2 Aiding in development on...
Claude Optimizes Lambda, Cuts AWS Bill by $1K Monthly
Claude helped me reduce my AWS bill by about $1000 / mo. Just by tightening up a lambda which kept timing out, adding in better exception handling etc. Very pleasant surprise when I went to pay the bill today.
Tiny Teams Disrupt Industries, AI Fuels Next Wave
reminder it only took 50 people at Craigslist to disrupt an entire industry’s economics But also it takes less than that to build platforms like uber, eBay, doordash, etc that can provide new income to millions More of both will come as...
Master the Game, Not the Grind: $200M Exit
my friend owned one radiology clinic then he acquired 23 more structured correctly zero personal capital exited the platform for $200M he didn't work harder he learned a different game
Witness Benten Woodring Build World‑Changing Innovations From Scratch
Watch @bentenwoodring. His work will change the world. You’re getting a chance to see him build from the ground up.
Say No: Keep Scope Tight When Deadline Stays
It is the final week of development. Leadership suddenly wants to turn your simple MVP into a full-featured product. The deadline remains exactly the same. HOW TO RECLAIM CONTROL:
Harvey CEO Regrets Secrecy, Wishes for Public Building
Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg's big regret: not building in public. "There was a lot of secrecy in the beginning. If I would do things over again, I would have figured out how to build in public faster." Being secretive wasn't deliberate or...
Real Startup Metrics Reveal Harsh SaaS Success Reality
Everyone shows their wins. Their MRR. Their "we hit $10K in a weekend" screenshots. I'm going to show everything. We started building Vora IQ before AI coding tools actually got good. The hard way. And now we're putting our real numbers —...
Diversify Like Amazon: From Books to Cloud Dominance
Best example that you should NOT focus on just one product but keep trying new ones might be Amazon If Jeff Bezos did he'd be still selling books Instead now Amazon with AWS is the backend of the entire internet https://t.co/YKn8XFwKGP
Dumb Ideas Win when They’re Smart Under Other Assumptions
There are many successful startups where the initial idea sounded dumb. And when the initial idea sounded smart. And many failures in both cases too. But if it sounds dumb, it had better be "smart under some assumption that we disagree on."
Focus on One Product, Avoid Spreading Too Thin
"NOOOO yoU SHOuLd FOcUs ON oNE proDuCT yOU CAN'T succEED If YoU SpReaD yoUrSeLf ToO tHiN" Ah yes like Apple, Google and Microsoft did? Right? Right?! https://t.co/0rhB0dwFen
Airwallex Turned Down $1.2B, Built $8B Empire
In 2018, Stripe offered $1.2B for Airwallex. They refused and built an $8B company instead. Here's how they did it👇
AI Hasn't Boosted April Fools, Proving SaaS's Inevitability
AI should have enabled infinitely more April Fools gags. But we saw basically the same amount we always saw. April Fools is a good abstraction for why conventional SaaS is not going anywhere and why companies aren’t going to build...
Steve Jobs Secured Apple Funding via Cold Email
"Source: Direct - Steve Jobs, the founder" TIL Steve Jobs funded Apple with a cold email
Media Scale Comes From Data, Not Headcount
$100M with 30 people MarketBeat does $50M/year with 19 employees... @MediaKing thinks he can get to $100M with 30... "To go from a million subscribers to two... you don't actually produce more content. You just don't need more people." Scalable media businesses aren't...
AI Hype Masks a Fleeting Lifestyle Venture
“That’s just a lifestyle business.” So an AI founder in a Stanford hoodie in a hotel lobby on Sand Hill swaggering about his 10 on 50 pre like the love child of Steve and Elon as he goes bankrupt in 19...
Avoid the Drama Triangle: Confront Directly or Company Rotates
Every founder and CEO should read all they can about the drama triangle. If you cannot face another person directly, you will drag a third person in and call it process. That is how companies rot from the inside.
Stop Planning, Ship Early—Learn More From Failure
"Still planning" is the most expensive hobby in tech. I know because I did it for 6 years. Read every blog post. Took every course. Built nothing. Then I shipped something ugly. It made $200. That $200 taught me more than 6...
Celebrating First Year, Targeting 100k Investors with New ED
Super first financial year and Looking forward to you @uptickr Vashistha as ED on the journey to 1 lakh investors (and more)!