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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 run it full-time Very low risk if you do it right
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. 🙏🏽
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…
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...
"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...
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...
Baffling pivot by Reform. They're morphing into that which they purport to be an alternative to.
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,...
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.
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...
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
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...
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 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 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.
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...
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
Watch @bentenwoodring. His work will change the world. You’re getting a chance to see him build from the ground up.
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 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...
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 —...
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
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."
"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
In 2018, Stripe offered $1.2B for Airwallex. They refused and built an $8B company instead. Here's how they did it👇
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...
"Source: Direct - Steve Jobs, the founder" TIL Steve Jobs funded Apple with a cold email
$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...
“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...
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.
"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...
Super first financial year and Looking forward to you @uptickr Vashistha as ED on the journey to 1 lakh investors (and more)!
Ridge Wallet hit $200M/year with zero VC funding. Their rule? Every ad must be profitable on the first purchase. No relying on repeat buyers. Meanwhile you're losing money on the front-end hoping 'LTV' will magically save you. That's the gap.
Almost every time a founder is pressured by a board member, investor or advisor to make a major hire quickly, typically with absurd demands, it’s resulted in a bad hire — with a giant severance package 🤔 Hire slowly Hire missionaries...
A lot of founder advice around growth already feels outdated. Not because it was always bad. Because the environment changed faster than the playbooks did. Ideas are cheaper. Code is getting cheaper. Attention is not. Distribution is not. That changes where leverage lives.
It’s officially Q2 ‼️ Tech Founders how did your Q1 go? Quick audit: • What did you ship in Q1? • What actually drove results? • What are you scaling in Q2? Busy ≠ progress. Let’s be honest.
I asked 1000+ Hampton founders (all doing at least 3M ARR): has hitting your career goals actually made you happier? Here's what they said: - Founder A (sold multiple companies): "Revenue milestones felt good briefly, then faded. But being able to buy...
I get asked often what matters most when building a company today. There are a lot of traits that have always mattered, but one has become disproportionately important in this environment: velocity of iteration. Today, products are built in months, markets...
Most founders send a login and wait for feedback. Hewitt Tomlin showed up in person, called coaches, built real relationships. His very first customer from 12 years ago is still someone he talks to today. https://t.co/PbIlyv1cUM
In 2013, Shark Tank rejected this “useless” doorbell. The company asked for $700K investment. The Sharks laughed. But 5 years later, Amazon bought the company for $1B... And Shaq invested $1M of his OWN money into the business. Here's the story...
Humbled to announce we have closed the world’s first ever quadruple layered SPV to participate in this round. We thank our LP’s for their quick turnaround on the 12-hour process, and we are excited to lend our expertise to the OpenAI...
@happygirlmarketingco came to me not seeing her numbers clearly. One year later: revenue up 101%. She hired 2 employees with confidence. Started paying herself consistently. Said budgeting finally gave her peace. That's not luck. That's what happens when strategy meets...
I've watched hundreds of founders quit their jobs too early and go broke. They all made the same mistake… no systems. AI makes that inexcusable. Now you can build in 4 weeks what used to take a team of 5 people and...
this is why i invested in as many gundo founders i could a few years back. and most are still just getting started
The best way to raise a round is to hire an advisor to cold email VCs
The most AI proof job in the world is entrepreneurship Use it to make products and services. Build more companies. On Shopify or otherwise.
I spent today researching which industries have the longest forms. Healthcare patient intake: 15-30+ fields Insurance applications: 20-40+ fields Mortgage apps: 30-50+ fields 27% of users abandon forms because they're too long. This is exactly what I'm building FormShift to fix.
The room you’re in is either accelerating your growth or capping it. In this episode, we cover: ✔️The two types of rooms every founder needs ✔️Why success starts to feel normal when you’re around people doing bigger things ✔️How to add value even...
I think Allbirds failed because they tried to do too much and grow too fast too soon and that left them scrambling to make up revenue as a publicly traded company. I think being public was a crash grab for...
Building a solo business is: • 10% tactics • 20% strategy •70% not quitting when it gets hard The tactics are easy The psychology is brutal
