i launched 3 businesses in the last 6 months https://t.co/lTcrAhRMgx https://t.co/wFmKcg5583 https://t.co/r9ybVChxYV i reached the point where i now know i need help running them seems obvious in hindsight on top of everything else i am running. but it takes a lot of trust.
Knowing what you don't want to do is just as valuable as knowing what you do. Pick a direction. Give it three months. If you like it, keep going. If you hate it, you've still eliminated something and that's progress....
Market-qualifying question: Will the customer buy 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 no matter what? If no, this is a difficult market; you have to create demand. If yes, the questions are: Will it be you? Why? For whom?
Amazon was founded in 1994, one year after the birth of worldwide web from @CERN. In 1995, Jeff Bezos spoke about customers mailing cash to @Amazon for book purchases. https://t.co/sk7gsFBNNr
The distribution mindset shift @MediaKing built a $50M media company from South Dakota with 19 employees. His biggest lesson from the early blogging days: "There were plenty of great blogs that didn't get read and plenty of average ones that did." Distribution wins...
https://t.co/6WvpufeY6S is building AI infrastructure that automates product compliance for global retailers. Managing compliance across markets means different regulations per country, fragmented documentation, and constant changes. Most teams still run it on spreadsheets. Every product launch becomes a fire drill. Complir maps...
One of my biggest pet peeves: investors who write off companies too soon. Building a unicorn takes YEARS, even when things go phenomenally well. While there are exceptions, most $100M+ rev/yr companies didn't get there fast. More >>
The single most important quality in a founder, a strong operator, and a hire: the ability to reprogram their mind and assumptions. https://t.co/q2Md2PWkj6
Jesus wow Ramp is SHIPPING Companies internal tools become things they turn into side-hustle businesses because AI lets them ship so fast. And Steer is interesting. It's a way to make your AI a super nerd about the thing you're super nerdy about
Founders: Create a 'Closing Week' checklist: - All stakeholders identified - Security reviews completed - Payment process confirmed - Implementation timeline agreed No surprises in the final yard.

I got my first paycheck from one of my SaaS companies 🎉 Might not seem like a big deal, but I've been trying to make this work since 2020. I've poured thousands of hours and tens of thousands of my own money...
How do I plan a product roadmap in 2026? I haven't done it in a year as we've been firefighting I want to combine customer requests, insights from support, customer adoption data, fun stuff, and bets What's the playbook in 2026? Connect everything to...
This week in our SaaS CEO masterminds, one stat blew my mind Multiple companies reported 50-100% of their production code is now AI-generated. One team rebuilt an entire platform in 2 months with 4 people...a project previously scoped at 1...

Owning and building your own business is extremely hard. The benefit, you get to pick: - your customers - your partners - your team members - the location You spend 2,000 (likely more) hours a year working, optimize for who you do it...
Databricks just opened a $1M startup challenge for B2B companies building on their platform. Prize money follows ecosystem bets. When a platform offers $1M in prizes, it's not charity. It's lock-in with upside. Know where the gravity is.

ICYMI: The HumanX & Crunchbase AI Funding Report is out. In 2025, AI companies raised $211B, nearly half of global VC. See where capital is flowing now, & which companies presenting at HumanX may be poised for funding, acquisitions, or...
Venture capital is rebounding, but not evenly. Most of the $47.8 billion raised in Q1 is flowing into large, established funds, as investors prioritize track record in a more uncertain environment. Regulation, geopolitics and overallocation are pushing capital toward perceived safety. The...
From one of my advisors who is a long-time angel: "I’ve been writing down my portfolio each month with 'spidey sense' assessments of founders whose updates have been getting fluffy. No numbers in the update = not a good sign."
Building in public has been fundamentally changed by the advent of AI. Pains me to say it, but the transparency playbook that built my career now hands competitors a blueprint. Here's what I still share (and what I never will. Anymore.) https://t.co/dejGIMcP7M
Are you thinking about starting a business? Some might think you should begin by incorporating a company, building a website, purchasing equipment, getting insurance, working on your pricing strategy, making some ads, and setting everything up. Wrong. Your first step is to go...
Some are saying this Medvi story is fraudulent. What others in the industry are saying is with zero headcount, all the $ can go into marketing (meta, affiliates, etc). All the infra is rented. Operating margins will be extremely low,...

a lot of people think @chomps grew because protein snacking became a mainstream trend. but @slimjim and @jacklinks had dominated the meat snack aisle for decades. category growth doesn't explain how a $6,500 side hustle became america's fastest-growing food brand. 🧵 https://t.co/WIHgut9dQq
If revenue still feels reactive instead of steady That is the stage where hustle stops helping and structure starts mattering most
Before you hit follow (which I hope you do), read this: I’m 46. Gen X. I’m not building an online business in perfect conditions. I’m building it while juggling real life - running a pub, with a one-year-old, limited time, and a lot going...
SIGNS YOU'RE ACTUALLY MAKING PROGRESS AS AN INDIE HACKER: (even when it doesn't feel like it)
1. Yes, current moats matter But also… 2. The team and evidence of how fast you are moving today may be even more important because defensibility could be short-lived so can your team move fast enough to continually stay ahead
The more you’re attached to your idea (the product, the UX, the feature, the target customer, the market, the competitor, the differentiation, the price, the tech stack, the name, the colors), the less you can notice when it’s wrong. Hold everything...
I don’t talk about this much but my annual newsletter tier includes the EXACT resume and why me pitch deck I used to break into VC. If you’re trying to get in, it’s the most useful thing I offer. 👉 https://t.co/IF78dodBhB
Massive market that very few people know how to apply AI. The guy basically built an affiliate network / distribution channel to sell weight loss drug and he was able to do it extremely quickly and efficiently with AI. I believe the...
Jack Dorsey just published something that should be required reading for every founder. The premise: the org chart needs to be replaced entirely. And the argument starts 2,000 years ago. For thousands of years, every organization on earth has run on the...
Pick the fastest-growing segment in crypto - and build the best product. That’s @Plasma I believe stablecoins are the killer application in crypto, and Plasma is building the rails for that future - supported by @tether and a growing set of...
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...
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...
First of many single person companies that will make a boatload of money due to AI.

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
Helping friends quit their jobs and start companies (not even startups) is one of the most rewarding things in life
10 venture capital guides I wish I had on day 1 of being in VC👇
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...

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...
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...
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...
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
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.

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 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.

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...
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...

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.
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...
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...