Accelerating Opportunities Demand Bigger, Faster Funding Rounds
Thanks, @tim for our great chat in @ft about @airstreet epoch 3! “One of the reasons to go bigger now is the opportunity set has accelerated dramatically” “Companies want to raise faster and raise larger rounds, so you need to adapt the model for the game that’s being played.”
GStack: Accelerate Software Projects and Build Faster
I released GStack 2 weeks ago and we're still growing I made it because I was realizing: every software engineering project is changing. How could I accelerate the way I saw @steipete accelerate? GStack is my gift to everyone who wants...
AI Agents Transform Insider Risk From Alerts to Guidance
Excited to share that Ballistic Ventures led the Series A investment in Above Security, as the company emerges from stealth today with $50M in funding. Insider risk is one of the most persistent - and misunderstood - problems in cybersecurity. It’s...
Master SaaS Unit Economics for Confident Growth
Mastering SaaS unit economics is the difference between hoping growth happens and knowing it will. In our latest mastermind, we explored why every SaaS founder needs to know: ▪️ CAC, LTV, ARPA, churn, and customer lifespan ▪️ How to calculate...
Charge More: Half the Customers, Double the Profit
A $20/mo product is just as much work to make and sell as a $10/mo product, but it requires 1/2 the customers before you can quit your day job or hire your next employee. And it’s far more profitable, because the...
Build the Future First, Enable Rapid User Value
Christian (Chris) Bach (CEO @ Netlify )'s framework for becoming the obvious choice in your category: Start with a strong worldview about where the market is going. Then reverse engineer what needs to exist for that future to happen. Then...
Skip Feature Race; Master Narrow, Deep Gaps
Building a new product? Don't compete on features. When I built Kit, competitors had already been building for over a decade. Rather than match their feature list, I found two gaps and went as deep as I could on both. Narrow the...
Clients Only Want Results, Not Your Social Proof
I built my entire ghostwriting agency, 300+ clients, millions of dollars in revenue, with ZERO testimonials. This is something beginners have a very hard time wrapping their heads around. • Clients do not care about social proof. • Clients do not care if...
Open‑source AWS Alternative Promises Massive Cloud Cost Savings
Ubicloud is building the open source alternative to AWS and it's unbelievable what that means for running compute in the cloud Imagine this savings for every bit of your cloud spend. It's going to be marvelous. @UbicloudHQ https://t.co/LUrNXgpnYW
Fastest Scaling Founders Focus on Simple, Measurable Business
A pattern I’ve noticed: the founders who scale fastest are those committed to boring business. They track a few basic measurables and keep things simple.
OQTEC Secures $29M to Expand Satellite IoT Fleet
Satellite IoT/D2D startup @OQTEC: 2 more sats launch this spring, 5 more by year's end. New @EIB funding of $29M permits construction of 20 more. Commercial service in Australia starts this yr. https://t.co/arOtFaMzlq https://t.co/Kyagh8JBOM
Ecom Founders Measure Price by ROI, Not Expense
Everyone sees a price: 'That's expensive.' Ecom founders see a price: 'What's the value and what's the ROI?' Different mindset. Different way of thinking.
Subscriptions Generate 700× More Revenue than Ads
Adsense is incredibly low amounts of money Photo AI would make $150/month with 156,000 visitors ($1 CPM) Now it makes $110,000/month with subscriptions instead so about 700x more
Embrace Uncertainty, Stay Humble, Keep Learning to Succeed
Before Smart Bear: I always had doubts, I never felt confident, I almost broke down several times and gave up, I had to be convinced just to do the second startup, I'm terrible at time-management, I didn't know anything about accounting...
Focus Bridges the Adoption Gap Between Visionaries and Pragmatists
Careers rarely unfold in a straight line. Mine certainly did not. I began as an English major, earned a doctorate in medieval and Renaissance literature, taught for four years, then left academia for high tech. That path eventually led me...
Founders Thrive With Simple Workspace, Not More Features
I ran a simple experiment with 6 solo founders: No new tools. No templates. Just: one shared workspace AI “teammates” that remembered every convo a sequenced checklist from “idea” → “customer interviews” Result after 2 weeks: Less context-switching. More actual founder work getting done. The lesson: Founders don’t need...
Founders Should Code Their MVP First, Even Roughly
Founder-Led Coding: Something that I think we’re about to see pretty often with the massive increase of entrepreneurial but non-technical founders who can use AI code gen to build their v1 products we’re about to see founder led coding. Founder led sales:...
Success Needs Both Luck and Hard Work
1/2 the startup world belie their narcissistic bloated egos saying “it’s 90% genius,” while 1/2 excuse their lack of success or progress as “it’s 90% luck”. In fact they’re both right. Without luck you’re born a serf in a remote region...
GStack Offers Just a Fraction of YC Batch Intensity
GStack is only 10% power of what it's like to actually come and go through a Y Combinator batch
Organic Traffic Demands Years of Daily Content Creation
Everyone wants to own a business built on organic traffic (rather than paid ads). The problem is, no one wants to write organic content every single day for 3 years.
Map Processes, Automate, Save Fivefold on Resources
101 of ai automations or agents for founders: Hire somebody to do it manually. Map out all the processes. Build automations around it. You can save 5x on resources.
Deliver Real Value First, Then Pitch—VC Gold
possibly the sharpest VC marketing move I've seen... @garrytan ships 15 claude code skills, the repo hits 37k stars and 4.6k forks, then -- only after delivering real value - drops the pitch, bravo 👏: https://t.co/5Vz4Or0r6T
All Paths Lead to Rethinking Success and Well‑Being
I read three books yesterday. One about founder mental health, one by hiking monks, one about quitting the default path. All three are about the same thing. https://t.co/WBnSqSVEnD
Meta Thrives Buying Demand, Flops Building Metaverse
Meta just pulled back on the Metaverse after spending ~$80B. Here's what actually went wrong 👇 In 2021, Zuckerberg renamed Facebook to Meta and positioned the Metaverse as the next chapter of the internet. Now Meta is killing VR access...
Market Cares About Solutions, Not Packaging.
I lost $11k on a beauty product with 'perfect' packaging. Market said meh. I tested a product with basic packaging but solved a real problem. Scaled to $60k/month. The market doesn't care about pretty. It cares about solutions. Test everything.
Organic Growth Beats Paid Ads for Sustainable Startup Success
There's a vast marketing industrial complex of agencies/consultants/advisors/whatever that promotes tech startups spending billions of dollars of unaccountable marketing budget. They're triggered by my anti-paid stance but here's the reality: - paid marketing is much, much worse than organic on every metric...
Great Ideas Fail without Post‑publish Amplification
I built https://t.co/M8688t4CuW because I kept watching brilliant marketers drown in execution.... Great ideas. Zero amplification. The creation was never the bottleneck. It was always what happened after publish.
Blueprint for Building a $15B J&J Acquisition Target
How do you build a company that $JNJ will buy for $15 billion? Listen here.
Build, Refactor, Stay Focused: True Startup Advantage
reflecting upon the founding teams I admire most (and always aspire to build): - they made something hot vs. joining something hot (and endured doubts / not being understood by the friends for a few years. - they tackled an industry or...
VC Interviews Now Demand Rapid, Unscripted Product Builds
I’ve spoken to 10 VC candidates in the last 3 months. Every single one had to build something from scratch in their interview. No spec. No tool recommendations. 2-5 days. Just: figure it out. The bar has shifted. I wrote about what’s...
Speed and Scrappiness Beat Big Companies' Bureaucracy
Most founders don’t fail from lack of ideas. They fail from copying systems built for giants. Complex org charts. Endless meetings. Approval chains. Speed is your only unfair advantage. Don’t trade it for “looking legit.” Prototype fast. Test cheap. Kill what doesn’t work. Cash buys time. Time buys learning. Learning buys survival. Stay...
Startup Founders Endure Daily Rollercoaster of Praise and Setbacks
What's being a startup founder really like? "You have to keep your head when somebody slaps in you the face in the morning," says Star Catcher CEO @theandrewrush. "And then somebody shakes your hand and tells you you're doing a great job...
Publish Now, Refine Later: Prioritize Progress Over Perfection
Progress is > than perfection. This is a clip from my coaching program Most people keep postponing because their project is not perfect I say publish it anyway You can always go back and update it later But you’ll get more clarity around what...
Product‑Market Fit: My 15‑Year, 1,000‑Company Reality
Product-market fit isn't what most people think it is. After studying PMF for 15 years and observing ~1000 companies, here's what I've learned about what it really takes 🧵
Lean Startups Win by Hiring Freelancers, Not Full‑time Staff
Startups fail when they copy Fortune 500 playbooks. Early on, full-time hires drain cash with salaries and benefits you do not need. Hire 3 freelancers for one task, pick the best work, and move fast at 30 to 50% lower cost. Build a...
Invest $250 in Self‑Care to Sustain Founder Energy
i tell founders the opposite Go get a massage bro Go have a nice dinner $250 can go a very long way to improve ones positional state Important to maintain long term founder energy or else you will never want to do another...
Startup Ecosystem Systematized, Scaling Far Beyond Population Growth
Lotta folks commenting that this chart is an indictment of the progress of "startup science." I think it's the opposite. Since 2010 you've had a 7-10xing of seed rounds and a 3.5-7xing of A rounds. The US population has only grown...
Write for Free, Charge for Implementation, Scale to Millions
How I generated my first $5,000,000 on the internet: Selling digital products. But it took me 4 long years. This 5-step roadmap would have got me there faster: 1. Write for free. You want to start by writing for free. • Write on social platforms for...
Build Community, Not Price Wars, to Double Revenue
Outdoor Voices doubled revenue from $40M to $90M by building a community around 'Doing Things'. They sold movement, not performance. Meanwhile you're competing on price in a saturated market with no identity. That's the gap.
Real Product Decisions Come From Listening, Not Roadmaps
The exciting part of building a product is launching something new. The part that actually matters is what you do the week after. This week I'll be reading every comment. Watching how people use the MCP server. Fixing whatever breaks. Talking to...
Match Advice to Traction, Not Investor Hype
Most startup advice will hurt you. Raising early without traction signals weakness and kills leverage. Investors push for growth and exits, but their goals serve their fund, not your company. Before you follow any advice, match it to your stage, runway, and user...
Upvest Secures $125M to Upgrade European Banking Infrastructure
Upvest Raises US$125 Million to Modernise European Banking Infrastructure - Fintech Schweiz Digital Finance News - FintechNewsCH https://t.co/OLsvn5pOuF https://t.co/WwYH1vY8PH
Build a Moat: Master Four Essentials for Survival
Most companies will die in the next 12 months Unless they have: 1 Distribution Ownership 2 Reputation Capital 3 Taste Curation 4 Network Orchestration I made a guide to master these + build a moat around your business. Comment MOAT + I'll share it. Follow me...
Built a Better Democracy Newsletter After Media Failure
When legacy media failed democracy coverage, I didn't complain — I built something better. Democracy Docket: 400,000 free subscribers. 60,000 paying members. Built for readers, not corporate owners. We're growing. Join us. https://bit.ly/4r9A45t
Give Founders Concrete Feedback, Not Vague “High Bar” Excuses
The worst feedback to give a founder is "our bar is high, and therefore we are going to pass." That doesn't define your bar and it doesn't give any substantive feedback to the founder. Founders are way more resilient...
Made GStack Office Hours Tougher After Feedback
Chinese Twitter said that /office-hours in gstack was not hard enough on founders, so I made them harder https://t.co/gBNbhtzPAw
Paid Ads Tax Defensibility; Build Cheaper Scalable Growth Channels
lots of AI cos starting to experiment with paid marketing so here’s my take: Paid acquisition is a tax on your product's defensibility. the moment you can't out-spend the incumbents and competitors, you die. build channels that get cheaper as you...
8 Proven Tips for Startup Fundraising Success
Asking for money is one of the hardest things about running a startup. Most people were never taught how to do it. Here are 8 tips the Hustle Fund team actually uses: 🧵
Combine Sales and Marketing to Scale GTM Profitably
I think something weird has happened in 2026 for Founder-led GTM. Founders forgot that Sales + Marketing builds a scalable Go-To-Market machine. Sales is 1on1. Outbound Cold Emails? 1on1 (yes, even if you're spraying and praying to 15,000 prospects that don't know you). Marketing...