Former Stanford Athletes Launch Tampon Startup for Booming Market
Stories You Won't Find Anywhere Else 👇 Ex-Stanford Athletes’ Tampon Startup Takes on Growing Market https://t.co/6PmYKk2qgF via @sportico @LuisaRBeltran
Founders Crave Freedom, Cling to Control—Letting Go Matters
A pattern I've noticed: A lot of founders say they want freedom. But what they protect most is control. Learning to let go is the real work.
Problems Don't Always Mean You're Doing It Wrong
Some think that bc there are problems it means you must be doing it wrong. Maybe. Check in:
Ousted From Tinder, She Built App, Became Billionaire
She co-founded Tinder and got pushed out of her own company. So she built her own app and crushed them and became the youngest self-made woman billionaire in history. This is her story:
Spotify’s Freemium Fuels Growth; Subscriptions Sustain Profits
Spotify started with free music and ads. Ad revenue failed to cover high label fees, and free users saw no reason to upgrade. So Spotify put mobile, offline downloads, and no ads behind Premium. By the 2020s, about 85% of revenue came from...
AI Forces Founders to Rethink Org Structures From First Principles
For a long time great advice for founders was “don’t try to innovate on basic organizational practices.” The roles you need, executive jobs, ratios, spend in each area, and operational methods are kind of known in major classes of company....
Launch From Idea to Revenue Faster Than Giants
Why I keep saying this is the most exciting time in business history. You can ship your product from idea to revenue before the big guys get back from their team ideation lunch.
Same Levers Fuel Growth and Trigger Decline
Aswath Damodaran on the determinants of a company's lifecycle "What allows companies to grow quickly are: ease of scaling up, how quickly you can enter businesses, and how little capital you need to grow. But what causes companies to decline are...
Anthropic AI Opens Sydney Office, Expands APAC Presence
🗞️@AnthropicAI is expanding to Australia 🇦🇺and New Zealand🇳🇿, opening a Sydney office in the coming weeks—its fourth APAC office alongside Tokyo🇯🇵, Bengaluru🇮🇳, and Seoul🇰🇷—to support growing demand and better serve the region’s AI ecosystem. https://t.co/DGe5jbueVm
Founders Need Brutal Truths, Not Just Nice Investors
If you're a founder, picking the nice investor won't get you far. You don't need someone to tell you you're smart. That's what your mom is for. You need someone who can dole out the hard truths about your business,...
Churn Reveals Product Disapproval, Stalling Growth
Churn is the worst reason to have slow growth. Churn means you're not just unknown, or that there's a big threshold to sign up. It means people are actually trying the product and deciding they don't like it.
SaaS 1% Conversion Means CPC ≤ 1% of CAC
Most SaaS companies report about a 1% conversion rate - you need 100 visitors to make 1 sale. This means your maximum CPC should be 1% of your maximum CAC. Here’s how to calculate all these things: https://t.co/LXBj3k7vLd
GoogleStartups Canada Accelerator Launches with 14 Startups
Our team drives @google's global accelerators, and we've just kicked off the seventh @GoogleStartups Accelerator: Canada cohort. We chosen fourteen outstanding Canadian-founded startups for this class. Learn more about each one: https://t.co/K5sbIaA7Mw
Self‑employment: The True Security Beyond a Safe Job
A full time job feels like the safe option. It isn’t. @cindygallop breaks down why working for yourself can be the real security, and I couldn’t agree more. I took that leap as the main breadwinner for my family, moving from the...
AI Agents Accelerate Hardware Compliance, Cutting Time Tenfold
Noetic (@getnoetic) uses AI agents to automate end-to-end compliance workflows, so hardware products can get to markets 10x faster. Congrats on the launch, @togao0, @henrypzheng & @J4ckJ1Y! https://t.co/yDKh3UF6ks https://t.co/bMZ4rFcPBK
Join Expert Panel to Guide Emerging Entrepreneurs' Funding
Call for Experts: Small Business Funding Expert Panel – Harper College This panel will give aspiring entrepreneurs the opportunity to hear directly from experts about funding options, financial strategy, and real-world insights related to starting and growing a business. This is a volunteer engagement,...
Cross‑disciplinary, Inverted, and Creative Thinking Unlock Hidden Opportunities
How to see opportunities others miss: 1) Study a totally different field, then return to the original problem. Apply insights from other domains. 2) Invert the problem. Try to achieve the opposite. 3) Find ways to engage with hyper-creative people. Their thinking will...
Your Vision Drives Product; AI and Users Handle Execution
AI writes your code. Users write your roadmap. The only thing you need to write yourself is the vision.
Kirana Owners Lose Hours to Wholesale Trips; We Automate
India has 12M+ Kirana stores, yet the average owner still spends 4-6 hours a week traveling to wholesale markets just to keep stock. We’re building [Brand Name] to kill that inefficiency. We’re hiring a Head of Supply Chain & FMCG Ops to...
Creativity and Execution: Both Needed for Success
Creativity, invention, ideation. • vs - Consistent execution, planning, good decisions. Are they two different modes, or do you have to learn to do both? Or is one actually not that useful?
AI Empowers Solo Entrepreneurs to Build Million-Dollar Companies
Why One-Person Companies Are the Future of Work https://t.co/vAoKcBzMeZ Discover why one-person companies are becoming the dominant business model of the AI era. In this comprehensive 16-minute deep dive, we explore how artificial intelligence tools are enabling individual entrepreneurs to...
Validate, Research, Then Scale: Brooklinen's Kickstarter Triumph
Brooklinen set a $50k Kickstarter goal and raised $250k. The founders spent a full year researching factories and fabrics first. They validated before they scaled. Meanwhile you're launching untested products and hoping for the best. That's the gap.
Reading Won’t Replace Real, Uncomfortable Entrepreneurial Work
Too many people get the entrepreneurship stimulation they need just by reading books and hanging out on social media. Doing the work is uncomfortable and if you've never depended on yourself to earn enough money to pay all of your bills...
Bankers Claim $100M ARR Now Enough for IPO
"I'm hearing bankers say things like, '$100 million ARR, we could probably take that public.' I haven’t heard that in a while."
BioNTech Founders Leave to Launch New mRNA Venture
BioNTech founders to step down and helm new mRNA startup https://t.co/yjvsVRQH2D by @Lilah_Alvarado $BNTX - 20%
Free AI Startup Pack Delivers $500K Value From 54 Companies
🚨Attention startups🚨 We're re-launching our AI Startup pack today with 54 great companies offering you $500K in value This is every product a startup needs, free. Examples: @meetgranola, @Cloudflare, @MiroHQ, @Replit, @Superhuman, @posthog, @Snowflake, @linear +many more
Scale Revenue Right: Data‑Driven Timing in AI Era
The Science of Scaling started as a series of talks - just like the one I'm giving at SXSW in two weeks. Those talks became frameworks that underpin how we work with portfolio companies at Stage 2 Capital , and...
Nvidia Gains When Neolab Spinouts Thrive
Would very much be in Nvidia's best interest for as many of the Neolab spinouts to succeed as possible
Know When to Build Vs. Buy Solutions
What should you build ? What should you buy? A few weeks ago I shared some thoughts on what things are worth vibe coding and what things you should just buy off the shelf. I break it all down here:...
15 Years of Growth Yields $100M Portfolio
I've been serious about personal development and getting better at business for 15+ years. But not just reading and thinking about business... I've put the concepts to work. I sold my first business for 7 figures and built...
Prove Measurable Impact to Turn Pilots Into Essential Infrastructure
Established businesses optimize forecasts and margins. Early ventures face a more fundamental question: are customers achieving meaningful value? What matters is measurable impact that customers are willing to speak about publicly. When target accounts achieve real outcomes, referenceability follows. That...
A Milkshake Order Sparked Ray Kroc’s Mc
A strange milkshake machine order changed Ray Kroc’s life—and helped build McDonald’s. The story reveals timeless Ray Kroc lessons about risk, persistence, and opportunity. Read the story 👇 🔗 michaelwmchugh.com/ray-kroc-lessons
Mixed Customer Feedback: Opportunity or Unclear Idea?
You’re talking with customers. Of course they tell you different things. Is that a sign of over-abundance of opportunity? Or a sign that the idea is unclear, unfocused, unvalidated? Here’s how I evaluate it: https://t.co/0urIu6dbG4
Solo Builders Today, Future Masters of Their Own Revenue
The people building alone right now look crazy to everyone around them. But they're learning how to do everything themselves, and that compounds. In a few years, they'll build whatever they want, whenever they want, and keep nearly 100% of...
Women Founders Secure $1M Boost, Defying Odds
Theanna founder just posted her investor went from $100k to $1M investment and I am actually crying I’m so happy for her. WOMEN BUILDING TECH AND FUCKING DEFYING THE ODDS
Obsession with Context Beats Product Fixation for PLG Success
Christian (Chris) Bach (co-founder of Netlify , $2B+ valuation) joined me on the podcast and broke down something I wish more founders did early: To become the obvious choice in your space, stop obsessing over your solution. Instead, start obsessing...
BioNTech Founders Launch New Biotech, Eye FDA Acceptance
Sticking with the science. I find that really impressive. BioNTech founders Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci are leaving the biotech they founded to start a new one. Maybe by the time they have something for the clinic, the FDA will...
Scale by Orchestrating, Not by Doing Everything Yourself
One of my students made $74K last year and burned out. This year, he’ll clear that by the end of Q1. How? He‘s not working harder. He’s directing three projects right now where he’s not doing the work. He came to me a...
From Corporate Ceiling to Freedom: Crafting Clarity
I didn’t set out to build a business management agency. I set out to build freedom. By 29 I’d hit the glass ceiling in corporate. On paper, I was flying. Youngest operational manager across the UK, Europe and Australasia, big budgets,...
Success Comes From Embracing Rejection, Not Avoiding Hardship
Most founders fail because they avoid hard things. Sara Blakely faced rejection for Spanx and kept pitching until one yes changed her life. Melanie Perkins heard no from 100+ investors before Canva took off. Each no built skill, grit, and belief. What hard thing...
AI Pitch Bot Offers Cheap, Consistent Feedback, But Limits Hurt
haha the @runwayml real-time characters is great. i just spent 2 minutes pitching a ghibli version of myself a bladeless blender startup it's only a 2 min demo, but the questions and tone are pretty solid. one question even threw me...
Spot Founder Passion in 20 Seconds, Predict Success
It takes about 20 seconds of convo to gauge if the passion is there in a founder who has an early stage product. The passion / curiosity about the problem space is what you need to grind through the early...
SEO's Future: AI Summaries Threaten Clicks, Video Gains
As a B2B SaaS this terrifies me: I have basically stopped clicking on google results. The AI summary is good enough, and for other things I just ask ChatGPT. My business relies on SEO, so my own actions are filling me...
50 Buyers Snap Up New eCom Retention Vault
It's been a long time since @yojimmykim and I have launched anything new. 50 people grabbed the eCom Retention Vault in the first few hours. Didn't expect that. https://t.co/Nvu2sCggkD Thank you 🙏
Avoid Naming Competitors in Your Pitch Deck
Founders: assume that your deck is getting passed around, and that it will make its way to your direct competitors. Don't say things about your competitors that might you regret later (in your competitive advantage slide). In fact, I wouldn't...
Hire for Purpose, Not Just Hype, to Retain Talent
Empty calories. All Cluely stood for was being hyped and hot. When things got tough, the team jumped ship because they recruited people only interested in being part of a hyped and hot startup. When it was no longer was, they...
Boomer Retirement Unlocks $10T for Young AI‑Driven SMB Owners
$10 trillion in small business value is set to change hands as Boomers retire soon. And with AI disrupting traditional pathways, this may be a golden age for young talent to become SMB owners. Check out what Will is building for the next generation...
Open‑source AI Projects Can Fetch $10‑100M per Engineer
btw if you can build a category leader open source project in ai engineering right now the market acquihire rate is ~$10-$100m per ai engineer. you do not need to figure out a business model, you do not need GTM, you...
AI Boosts Solo Founders, Corporations Remain Bureaucratic
AI Superpowers the Solo Founder—But Corporations Stay Stuck AI is massively empowering individuals who know how to use it—especially builders, perfectionists, and technical solopreneurs who can now ship products faster than ever. But inside large corporations, the bottleneck isn’t productivity—it’s bureaucracy,...
Understanding Startup Failure: A Risk‑Focused Path to Success
Most startups still fail, despite all the advice, insightful ideas, and crazy hard work. Here is a risk-oriented theory of “why,” and how to improve your chances of success: https://t.co/xKPhWzGrMK