Social•Feb 14, 2026
AI Threatens White‑Collar Jobs—Upskill Now
Microsoft’s AI chief says AI will automate most white-collar work in 18 months. He claims AI will handle law, accounting, marketing, and coding at human level. Yet reports show only small productivity gains, and one study found developers took 20% longer with AI. Still, 55,000 jobs were cut in 2025 due to AI, and tech profits rose over 20% while other sectors stalled. If your job happens at a computer, what are you doing today to stay ahead?
By Ask Dr. Brown
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Key Signals Founders Need Before Raising Next Round
$40M raised. Series A ready. Episode 232 dives into the real signals founders should look for before raising more capital 👇 https://t.co/0CcjGEIVb9 #SaaS #AI https://t.co/S1vxKwuxiB
By Ben Murray
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Bootstrapping Beats VC Hype for Lasting Wealth
Worst ways to build wealth - thinking a $100M valuation means you have $100M - raising money. period - adding features for 5 years instead of admitting your product sucks - telling yourself "we just need more time" at year 7 - calling yourself a...
By Adam Robinson
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Solo Founder’s Transparent Journey to $1M by Year-End
I’m turning my monthly investor updates into a blog - full transparency of running a business as a solo founder trying to hit $1M by EOY. I’ll share every experiment, every win, loss, MRR, burn, etc. I don’t know everything...
By Nomiki Petrolla
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Earn Startup Attention, Don't Expect Platform Handouts
Nobody owes your startup attention. Not Twitter. Not Reddit. Not Product Hunt. Attention is earned, not launched. Where do you post your progress?
By Rado (This.is.rado)
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Pre‑PMF Funding Demands Clear Traction Over Resume
Big splashy pre-PMF rounds happen on big legible ideas and teams with social proof Don’t hate the player hate the game It doesn’t mean you can’t build a big co if you don’t have the right resume but it does mean you...
By Garry Tan
Social•Feb 14, 2026
SF's VC Boom Faces Tax Hike and Lab Bans
SF is the ONLY VC hub with positive company formation growth (+24%) while every other city declines—but an 800% gross receipts tax hike and lab bans threaten to destroy what makes the city special. https://t.co/gVxAtL7zDC
By Garry Tan
Social•Feb 13, 2026
8-Step Checklist to Nail Any VC Interview
I just put together an 8-step VC interview prep checklist to help you nail any interview... Knowing where to start can be HARD. There are many resources online that will tell you different things. My simple checklist will help you get prepared...
By Nicole DeTommaso
Social•Feb 13, 2026
AI-Powered Stack Redefines Rapid SaaS Development
The new way to build SaaS products with AI coding and tools like Claude, Curson, Lovable, Codex, Bolt, Vercel, Supabase, and Google AI Studio: https://youtu.be/baKNNPmjHRw?si=x6GPDfKmPB7sIx20
By Ryan Allis
Social•Feb 13, 2026
Not Now Masks Indecision: Useful Pause or Avoidance?
When you say “not now” instead of “no”… …you are avoiding making a decision. That’s good, if waiting means you can make a better decision (e.g. more data, more options to pick from). That’s bad, if you’re just non-committal. Cross things off the list.
By Jason Cohen
Social•Feb 13, 2026
Bootstrapped Growth Beats VC Hype for True Freedom
I want to be crystal clear: the advice I give on LinkedIn is NOT for founders who think they're creating unicorns, decacorns, or the next Anthropic. If you believe you're building a unicorn or decacorn and you're sitting here reading my...
By Adam Robinson
Social•Feb 13, 2026
Pivot: Replace Invalidated Strategy Parts, Keep Validated Ones
A “pivot,” as opposed to “throwing shit at the wall,” means that you identified what parts of the strategy have been reinforced with new evidence (the foot that remains planted) and which have been invalidated, and replaced by what precisely...
By Jason Cohen
Social•Feb 13, 2026
Segmented Marketing Unlocks Hidden Revenue Growth
Customer segmentation drives growth. Many businesses ignore it and waste budget on broad marketing. Group customers by behavior, survey feedback, and purchase history. When campaigns match each segment and product decisions follow real data, sales rise. If all customers are treated the same, how...
By Ask Dr. Brown
Social•Feb 13, 2026
Founders Should Solve Problems They’ve Lived Through
"Build something people want." Focus on solving real problems for your customers. It's best when founders have actually lived the problem.
By Gale Wilkinson
Social•Feb 13, 2026
Validate Early, Build Moat Before Hype-Driven Launch
From now on, hype-centric splashy launches will likely be strongly uncorrelated with success. If by the time you launch you don’t have escape velocity, you will likely get Sybil attacked¹. Agents will spin up 10 competing products with your same interface. Start...
By Guillermo Rauch
Social•Feb 13, 2026
Ecom Founders Stay Quiet, Letting Results Speak
Everyone at dinner: Let me tell you about my business idea. Ecom founders at dinner: Quiet because they're actually building and have nothing to prove. Different mindset. Different life.
By Kamil Sattar
Social•Feb 13, 2026
Listen to Customers: The only Guide for Next Steps
What is the most important thing to do next? The answers lie with the customers -- what they want, why they will buy, or stay. Not inside Visual Studio, not in ChatGPT, not on social media. The customer, and you facing the truth.
By Jason Cohen
Social•Feb 12, 2026
Pair Big Distribution with Startup Innovation for Win‑Win Deals
Large companies have distribution; startups have innovation, and maybe even a product people love. When each party's weakness maps onto the other's strength, that feels like the kernel of a deal. But typically it isn’t. Here’s how to make it work: https://t.co/tWykmze29I
By Jason Cohen
Social•Feb 12, 2026
Sourcing and Securing Cap Tables: Venture’s Toughest Challenges
Sourcing is the single hardest part about venture. Equally followed by actually getting on the cap table of the best companies.
By Nicole DeTommaso
Social•Feb 12, 2026
Student-Built Livestorm Scales to $20M ARR
Gilles Bertaux built Livestorm for a university final exam in 2016. Nearly $20M ARR. 3,500 customers. $35M raised. Last round was 2020. https://t.co/DXieBIwtcs
By Omer Khan
Social•Feb 11, 2026
Spot Tiny Trends Early for Explosive Startup Returns
I like to think of startup investing like surfing 🏄♀️ You don't want to paddle out too early (market doesn't exist yet). You don't want to be too late (already crowded with competitors). And sometimes the wave you're betting on just... fizzles out. At...
By Elizabeth Yin
Social•Feb 11, 2026
Valuation Blends SaaS Metrics with Deal Structuring
Valuation is understandably one of the most top-of-mind topics founders want to cover in our conversations. Something we often emphasize is that there are two sides of valuation: the objective side based on core SaaS metrics, and the subjective side influenced...
By Michael Lyon
Social•Feb 11, 2026
Monaco Launches AI-Powered Startup Sales Automation
We're launching Monaco today. Monaco automates customer acquisition and revenue growth for startups. The platform disrupting sales with AI has finally arrived. https://t.co/mH03HIOdx8
By Sam Blond
Social•Feb 11, 2026
UncorkCap Secures Investment Led by Inertia’s Jeffiel
We at @uncorkcap couldn't be more excited to share this news about a recent investment of ours: Inertia led by my old friend @jeffiel. https://t.co/DgUzgdgvhM
By Jeff Clavier
Social•Feb 11, 2026
Start with Familiar Use Case, Not Lofty Vision
Most founders position their products around their ultimate vision rather than what users can immediately understand. This is why so many brilliant products struggle to gain traction early on. Flo Crivello from Lindy shared a perfect case study with me: Notion....
By Omer Khan
Social•Feb 11, 2026
AI‑Native Mindset: Redefine Teams, Growth, and Assumptions
The Mental Shift Required In An AI-Native World In my second piece in Forbes, I explore how founders should rethink what it would mean to start their companies from scratch in an AI-native world. AI isn’t just a product or tooling shift,...
By Henri Pierre-Jacques
Social•Feb 11, 2026
Fix Activation, Not Features, to End Plateaus
A plateau is not a failure. It means people are paying. Every month. They find enough value to stay. The problem isn't your product. It's your funnel. We found that only 25% of signups ever made their first post. That was the whole leak. Not...
By Luca Restagno
Social•Feb 11, 2026
Amazon Launches AI Content Marketplace, Shifting Arms Race to Licensing
Amazon wants to build an AI content marketplace. Publishers would upload their articles. AI companies would pay to train on them. This means less copyright risk, more profit sharing, and fewer lawsuits. The AI arms race is turning into a licensing war.
By Ask Dr. Brown
Social•Feb 11, 2026
Prioritize Simplicity, Shipping, Consistency, and Feedback for Success
Simple > Complex Shipped > Perfect Consistent > Viral User feedback > Your assumptions These 4 principles built every successful product I've made.
By Luca Restagno
Social•Feb 11, 2026
More Projects, Same Few Great Products: Building Is Hard
It seems like the number of things people claim they are building is up but the number of great products is roughly the same. I find this particularly interesting about what it means is actually hard.
By Suhail Doshi
Social•Feb 11, 2026
Ship Only What Users Actually Need, Backed by Data
The best teams ship what they can prove users need. User research turns opinions into evidence and protects you from confident guesses. Get the receipts on your users with Seena Labs — seenalabs.io
By Dr. Axali (Seena Labs)
Social•Feb 10, 2026
Impact Beats Tools: Solve a Problem Today
The tools don't matter. The framework doesn't matter. The stack doesn't matter. What matters: Did you solve someone's problem today? That's the only metric that counts.
By Luca Restagno
Social•Feb 10, 2026
AI Dominates Startups, yet “Why Now?” Still Matters
Thanks for resurfacing this, Dimitry Gershenson 🙏 ❤️ So much has changed since we put this together in 2023 (i.e. AI dominating the startup ecosystem) but also, not much has changed (i.e. the importance of asking "why now?").
By Angela Tran Kingyens
Social•Feb 10, 2026
Startups Can Grow Tenfold, YC Fuels the Boom
What do I believe that few other people believe yet? Startups can and will be 10x bigger YC’s role to make that happen. We're the tree of prosperity: minting more great founders so that both the mega-platforms and the boutiques have...
By Garry Tan
Social•Feb 10, 2026
Future Teams: PMs Code, Architect Manages Infrastructure
anyone with theories on how software teams will evolve? today: 1 eng, 1 PM, 1 designer (EPD) tomorrow: 10 PMs who vibe code all day + 1 eng architect (the architect creates the scaffolding and writes adversarial agents to manage tech debt, security, scalability issues) Thoughts?
By Andrew Chen
Social•Feb 10, 2026
PE Overvalued Saa
Entrepreneurs: private equity firms OVERVALUED SaaS companies during 2020-21. NOW, those “overvalued” companies are getting marked down 30-60% 🤯 If you’re an investor = BUY distressed assets LOW If you’re a startup founder = CASHFLOW CASHFLOW
By Sherrard Harrington
Social•Feb 10, 2026
AI Personas Deliver Instant Strategic Product Feedback
Out of all the things we've shipped recently, this one has been my biggest wow moment. Instant feedback from any type of user... → Create a persona that matches your real users and buyers. → An AI agent takes on that persona. →...
By Brian Balfour
Social•Feb 10, 2026
CEOs May Flee Taxes, but California Retains Talent
This take might age like milk, but I'm calling it: the tech CEOs might move their domicile to other states for tax reasons, but they will keep their teams in California. The chicken-and-egg of talent density is so difficult to replicate...
By Eric Bahn
Social•Feb 10, 2026
Winning Products Focus on the Critical Last 20%
We’re about to be flooded with: – average MVPs – look-alike products – tools with no point of view – software that works but doesn’t matter What actually wins now isn’t speed to “something.” Today, anyone can prompt their way to an MVP. You can get 80%...
By Wes Bush
Social•Feb 10, 2026
Earn $1 Now, Not $1M Dreamed Inaction
Making $1 beats planning to make $1M and doing nothing. Seen this too many times with aspiring founders.
By ai_topia_
Social•Feb 10, 2026
Ship Imperfectly, Let Users See Your Vision
Flo Crivello , founder of Lindy told me he gave early users a product that was oily, half-broken, and rough around the edges. His no-code AI automation platform wasn't ready. Not by traditional standards. The first people through the door didn't judge...
By Omer Khan
Social•Feb 10, 2026
Build What People Want, Not Just a Good Product
Most solopreneurs don’t fail because their product is bad. They fail because they build things nobody wants. If you start with “what should I build?”, you’re already late. Comment “YES” if this hit home.
By Rado (This.is.rado)
Social•Feb 10, 2026
Share Your Side Project, Get Featured Monthly
If you have a side project, share below. I'll retweet some interesting ones to give you more attention 😄 I'll do this every month to encourage more people to build side projects and escape 9-5.
By Tony Dinh
Social•Feb 10, 2026
AI Tools Match the Skill of Their Operators
A corollary for AI tooling: its outputs will only ever be as good as the person wrangling them from it. That's really all it is. Yet another powerful tool (like a compiler, or k8s) that can only be run effectively by...
By Arvid Kahl
Social•Feb 10, 2026
Tech Founders Forced Into Management Find Solace in Warhammer
yeah I guess technical founders never had to deal with being (self-)promoted to management. Those who never wanted to work for a boss again now are becoming the ultimate pencil-pushers. I'm going through the same sobering realization. The antidote? Painting Warhammer.
By Arvid Kahl
Social•Feb 10, 2026
Opening VC Doors: Democratizing Wealth Through Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is one the greatest means to wealth creation and venture capital is one of the levers that fuels that, yet it’s gate kept by insiders… My goal has always been to change that.
By Nicole DeTommaso
Social•Feb 10, 2026
Join AI Startup Founders at Conviction's Mixture-of-Experts Event
hi! if you want to work at some of the most interesting startups in AI, come to our next mixture-of-experts event at @conviction and hear from the founders of Harmonic, Worktrace, Sunday, Treehouse and Trajectory https://t.co/ZL7mdnszUl
By Sarah Guo
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Avoid Copycats: Dare to Think Differently for Startup Survival
When the typical outcome for a post seed, post series A, and post series B startup is death. Perhaps the best strategy is to be careful how much you copy the startups around you. Are you brave enough...
By Michael Seibel
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Being a VC Is Mostly About Mastering Sales
Aspiring VCs - do you know VC is a ton of sales? Externally: - Pitching to LPs - Winning over founders & other VCs - Recruiting talent Internally: - Pitching new deals to your team - Proposing new firm initiatives - Suggesting new firm processes
By Nicole DeTommaso
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Pulse Slashes Research Time From Hours to Minutes
BIG NEWS: I just launched Pulse. The world's first news reader that cuts research from 2 hours to 5 mins👇
By Ryan Allis