Launch Everywhere at Once, Beat Incumbents Globally
"It's really hard to enter a market if there's an existing incumbent." So Zhong Xu launched Deliverect in every country at the same time. 7 years later: #1 or #2 in all of them. https://t.co/fbRQrowVSQ
Founders Prefer Employee Roles Over Bankruptcy Risks
"it's because we are attracting founders that actually want to be employees. They don't think and say 'if I don't pull this off, I'm going to become bankrupt. My life is over.'" incredibly based take
Sell When You're Thriving, Not When Growth Slows
Many founders wait until growth slows before thinking about selling or raising capital, but the irony is: buyers and investors are often most interested when a business is performing at its best. In this episode of Vista Point Advisors The...
Spotting Winners: Hacker Mindset Meets Wall‑Running
Sometimes you meet a founder and instantly know they'll be successful. A pattern I look for: a hacker mindset + ability to run through walls. Thanks for including us (x3), @mohaknahta.
Earn Six Figures Solo: Brand, Proof, Overdeliver, Content
A few years ago... I made $270K in a year as a solo freelancer. No investors. No big city network. No team. Here’s the playbook I ran: 1) Own your name online. 2) Publish proof, not promises. 3) Deliver more than you’re paid for. 4)...
From Lab Expulsion to Microsoft Co‑founder, Allen’s Redemption
#ThisDayInTechHistory. March 17, 1971. Paul Allen was kicked out of the University of Washington's Computer Lab. About 4 years later he would co-found @Microsoft. Years later the University would name the lab after him. #Computer...
Backing Proven Repeat Founders and Unicorn Operators
In the last 12 months, we invested in 8 companies, 5 were repeat founders. Before starting these new companies, those 5 had already: - Raised $200M+, IPO’d one startup, and sold another for 9 figures - Raised $100M+, scaled to $50M+ ARR, and...
AI Speeds Insight, but Can't Replace Human Judgment
A founder fed customer interviews into ChatGPT to extract jobs-to-be-done. Output wasn't wrong. Just goofy. It missed hesitation, energy, contradictions. The tension: AI is useful and easy to misuse. AI-assisted ✅ speeds up your work AI-led ❌ replaces judgment
Scaling to the Moon This Year, Sharing Insights
Excited to scale this to the moon this year and share our learnings along the way📈
From Corporate Translator to Independent Strategist: The Claraty Method
We talk a lot about the future of work. Clara Lucio is living it. She just went out on her own — and wrote about it in a way that I think is going to resonate with a lot of...
R1 Secures $78M to Advance Kidney Drug Development
R1 starts up with $78M, aiming for a better kidney drug https://t.co/PQQjX47ODM by @gwendolynawu #biotecjh #startups
Charge Enough to Sustain Impact and Help More
If you want to help more people, charge enough to stay in the game long enough to matter.
Audience, Not Spreadsheets, Becomes the New VC
A VC event where no one said “AI moat.” Instead, influencers heard pitches for diamond memorials, soda startups, and underground robots. The room cared less about spreadsheets and more about attention. Founders need reach. Creators want equity. Both trade on followers. Is audience the...
Our Legacy Shapes Today’s Creator Economy
I was feeling nostalgic and asked ChatGPT to tell me about Zivity and I started crying. Even if we failed, we are in the corpus of humanity and our efforts helped shape much of what is considered "normal" today as...
Indie Startups Should Collaborate, Not Compete, for Success
Funded start-ups building the same product become competitors. Indie start-ups building the same product become friends. Indie start-ups only need $10k MRR to succeed. The market is so big that it is unrealistic and unnecessary for two independent developers to “compete” with...
Seeking Top OpenCLaw & Agentic System Builders for Feedback
Who are the best openclaw and agentic system builders out there? I’m building something, it’s super raw, and want to get feedback. Could be big.
AI Makes Public Building Risky; Founders Turn Silent
This is why building in public, as fun and empowering as it is, has severe limits. Competitors have a significantly easier time now than before AI to build functionally critical-mass-escaping clones to swipe the bottom of the barrel. Lots of founders are...
Build in Bear Markets, Earn When Others Wait
Everyone's delaying TGEs and waiting for better conditions right now but Katana is pushing forward anyway and i respect that. Ive built through multiple bear markets myself, you learn pretty quickly that the teams who show up when conditions are ugly...
Founders Meet Monthly to Share AI Wins and Learn
Pretty much all my monthly meetings with my founder peers is discussing: - how we're keeping up with ai - showing off stuff we've built - learning from one another
Founders: Watch This Business School Speedrun for Fundraising Tips
This interview with @travisk is business school speedrun https://t.co/wAN9fIwDTl For founders, it's worth watching in its entirety. And if you're fundraising, channel your inner TK.
Clear Guide to Running SPVs with Verivend
SPVs are one of the most powerful tools in private markets. Most people have no idea how they actually work. Entity formation. Legal docs. Compliance filings. Capital calls. K-1s. + more. Verivend put together the clearest breakdown I've seen on how to actually...
From 5050 Support to $400K Daily Revenue
A portfolio founder we initially supported through 5050 pre-company just shared revenue has grown to $400,000. A day. Nothing more satisfying than seeing a sparkle in a founder's eye grow into a real company creating impact at scale.
Timeless Solutions Outlast Fleeting TikTok Trends
I lost $9k on a product that was trending on TikTok. The trend died in a week. I launched a product that solves a timeless boring problem. It's been selling for 2 years. The market doesn't care about trends. It...
AI-Native Startups Outpace Sluggish Incumbents
The new AI-native companies are leaner, meaner, and move fast. The sabertooth tigers are coming for the giant sloths.
Turn Unhappy Customers Into Your Greatest Learning Tool
"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." – Bill Gates Negative feedback is invaluable. 💡 Use it to improve your products and services and turn dissatisfied customers into loyal advocates.
AI Solves Feasibility; You Decide What's Worth Building
The gap between "I can build this" and "this is worth building" has never been wider. AI closed the first one completely. The second one is still yours. Speed has never been cheaper. Imagination has never mattered more.
Automatic Dubbing Lets French Tutorials Reach Global Audience
IACrea just got a game-changer for internationalization: @subclip_app I record a tutorial a video in French, Pick a language in Sub, And got my video translated and dubbed automatically ! I used to record only in French my video (biggest iacrea audience), and...
Treat Sales Like Engineering to Scale Rapidly
Making a product is not that hard. Getting it into as many hands as you can? That's what kills most startups. Zhong Xu scaled Deliverect to 80,000 customers because he treated sales as an engineering problem. https://t.co/WlxbWnSSjZ
Anticipate, Rehearse, and Follow up on Pitch Questions
Prepare for the inevitable questions that will follow your pitch. Anticipate potential queries and objections, and rehearse your responses to demonstrate your expertise and preparedness. But if you don't know an answer, it's okay - say that and then follow up via...
One Month Break Reveals My Top Business Lessons
whew... a full month off my business. + the 10 biggest lessons I learned + the questions you asked + and what my business looks like moving forward
Marketers, Not Engineers, Drive Today’s Billion‑Dollar Brands
The (lazy) narrative: "agencies are dead" The reality: good marketers will get VERY rich — Building a product used to require a ton of capital, years of engineering or R&D, and a team you probably couldn't afford. (Trust me. I built a VC-backed tech...
AI Platform Empowers Non‑Tech Users to Build Production Apps
In this episode of the @LightconePod, we sat down with @mukundjha and @madhavjha, the founders of @emergentlabs - an AI platform that lets anyone build and ship production-ready software. In just eight months, users have created more than 7 million apps...
From AlexNet to ROSS: My 2014 Journey
me since 2014 after learning about alexnet and founding ROSS at the university of toronto:
First Customers Signed in a Week: Essential Web Thrives
Nothing beats putting a new offer into the world and signing your first customers within a week. essential web is growing 🤯
Entrepreneurs Turn Problems Into Profit Opportunities
Everyone sees a problem: 'Someone should fix that.' Ecom founders see a problem: 'I can build a business that fixes that.' Different mindset. Different bank account.
Spot Anomalies, Uncover Untapped Business Opportunities
Most markets look crowded. Zoom into the data and you spot gaps. Unusual purchases, demand spikes, sensor errors, fraud patterns. Each anomaly marks a problem no one solved. Track what breaks, and you find your next business.
Monday Kickoff: Hackathon Teams Showcase Weekend Creations
No better way to start a Monday. 🫡 Watching teams present what they built over the weekend during our hackathon. https://t.co/4ydg2dSlmG
Watch Objective Signals to Spot Strategy Mistakes Early
OK, you’re confident in strategy S and tactic T and feature F and target market M. Good; don’t constantly second-guess yourself. But… if you 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 wrong, what objective signal would tell you that? You’d better know, and be watching.
Mistakes Are Essential; Keep Going Until Breakthrough
I see a lot of you out there being way too hard on yourselves for making mistakes in your journeys. But when you’re starting out, mistakes are required. Every single person who's built something meaningful has made them. If each failure feels...
Seeking Feedback on Open‑Source Podcast Player with For‑Profit Companion
I want to start an open-source podcast player project with a companion for-profit — anyone have thoughts?
Nominal Cofounders Secure $80M at $1B Valuation
A big week for @CameronLMcCord + @brycestrauss cofounders of @Nominal_io with $80M raise at $1B led by our super smart partners at @foundersfund
2026’s Proven Blueprint for Fashion Dropshipping Success
How To Start Fashion Dropshipping in 2026 (The NEW Way That Works) WATCH HERE 👉 https://t.co/qGrXncGUxm Stop following outdated 2025 advice. In this 49-minute guide, I’m showing you how to ACTUALLY start a fashion dropshipping store on Shopify in 2026. Forget the...
Choose Investors Wisely: Bad Checks Cost Control
Taking the wrong check is worse than taking no check. A bad investor will cost you board seats, control, and sleep. The cap table you build on the way up follows you the whole way.
Design for 2030 Abundance, Not 2024 Scarcity
If You're an Entrepreneur: Stop designing businesses for 2024 scarcity. Design for 2030 abundance. Assume intelligence is free, energy is unlimited, and robotic labor costs pennies per hour. What becomes possible that's impossible today?
Startups Thrive in Niche Pockets of Large Markets
Small markets are good if you can be #1. Large markets contain niches that are too small for incumbents to target but perfect for startups; there's budget and people are searching for it. So, that's often better. https://t.co/8TZHTobLGs
Document Your Frustrations Now, Profit Later
That thing making you want to scream right now? • Screenshot it • Journal it • Voice memo it • Document it In 6 months, someone will pay you for the solution you're currently Googling at 2 AM.
Being a Generalist Fueled My Startup Success
I'm 40. I've been told my whole career that you need to specialize. Pick one thing. Go deep. Become the expert. I did the opposite. And it's the reason BlackTwist exists.
Bootstrapping Beats Funding for Most Entrepreneurs
This is great advice if you’re funded but an absolutely a terrible take for bootstrappers. It’s also exactly why bootstrapping is the better option for the vast majority of entrepreneurs.
Open Your Journey, Unlock Free Development and GTM
Be open with your journey folks - it’s free product development, free market development, free GTM
Talk More, Code Less: Users Shape Your Roadmap
Unpopular opinion. Most indie hackers spend too much time building and not enough time talking. I spent 3 hours last week on calls with 4 users. Zero lines of code written. It was the most productive week I've had in months. The...