Redefine Success: Prioritize Impact, Fulfillment, and Happiness
Success metrics often ignore important aspects like impact, fulfillment, and happiness. Redefine what success means to you and ensure it aligns with your personal values and goals, not just conventional standards. 💡
SpotPay Launches Universal Account Across 40+ Countries
SpotPay is building the Global Bank Account. One account that lets anyone send, receive, and spend money locally and across the globe. They’re already live in 40+ countries. https://t.co/RSc6UwlrDZ https://t.co/lV8KO2qvrJ
Most Launches Fail; Focus on Daily Customer Acquisition
Launches sometimes work. It’s often news when they do, so you think they’re a good idea. It's just: (a) usually they don't work and (b) you need customers every day after and (c) it's a lot of time and energy. Which makes...
Founders Brag Revenue, Ignore Churn; I Expose the Full Picture
AI company founders: Love sharing monthly revenue Love multiplying it by 12 for an annual run rate Hate talking about churn I contribute to this culture by building Senja in public But I’ve tried to paint a more complete picture by talking about the challenges...
Chase’s In‑person LLC Account Setup Fails, Email Works Elsewhere
@Chase tried to open a bank account for an LLC in person and it didn’t work. We couldn’t get through the NAIC chooser after almost an hour with your employee. Went to a different bank where we set...
Texting Over Apps: A Brilliant Design Choice
This is one of the smartest design choices I’ve seen in a long time. Most people are just building another app. But Hey Noah asked, “What if we just used texting?” I just joined the waitlist: https://t.co/is6PZuYF0b
Product‑Market Fit Is a Spectrum, Not a Binary
Most founders think of product-market fit as binary. You have it or you don't. That framing causes a lot of unnecessary anxiety. PMF is a spectrum. You move through stages, and each stage has different work. The question isn't "do I have PMF?" It's...
AI Project Management Lets Contractors Focus on Building
Scout Out (@scoutoutai) is building AI-powered project management for residential contractors — handling estimates, docs, and job admin so they can keep their hands on the hammer, not the keyboard. Congrats on the launch @NolanRossi100! https://t.co/hyA8c1GPeI https://t.co/hU6KeYIKDc
Listen to Complaints, Keep 95% of Customers
Most businesses lose customers after one complaint. Not because of the problem, but because no one listened. Use this rule: listen, validate, ask “What can I do to make this right?”, then fix it and document it. Research shows 95% of unhappy customers...
Build Fast, Promote Faster: Get Featured on Our Platform
You build it. I promote it. Building has never been easier. Getting customers has never been harder. So I’m picking 2 products to promote to our 1,000,000+ entrepreneurs for our 16-year anniversary next Tuesday. Drop your product below. Don’t have one? Build it...
Never Let Claude Manage Production Infra without Humans
Unless you're Pieter Levels, do NOT RUN CLAUDE on your production system or infrastructure. It's a very charismatic toddler when it comes to understanding business consequences. It WILL do something completely disastrous eventually. Human in the loop for all infra work. ALWAYS.
CEOs Must Delegate to Avoid Micromanaging Trivial Decisions
As the CEO, if you’re constantly answering trivial questions, making little decisions, you have a problem of your own making. Is it because you're not allowing others to decide? They think they're not empowered? It's a bad sign and you have to...
Young Entrepreneur Risks $1.5M Loan, Builds 51k‑sq‑ft Storage
In 2016 we broke ground on our first self storage development. I had just turned 27 and had personally guaranteed a $1.5 million loan to make this happen. We put in about $500k of our own cash (from a small business we...
Skip VP Hires Until $10M ARR, Stay Hands‑on
If you're under $10M ARR and you have a VP of anything, that’s a mistake. > You hire a VP of Sales > Now you need a VP of Marketing > Now you need a VP of Product Suddenly, you're managing executives instead of...
Stack Collapse Will Transform Low‑Margin Service Industries
agree with this thesis - collapsing stack (of talent, process, and economics) in almost absurd ways in a specific vertical will birth the next generation leaders in services. these traditionally people-intensive, slow, low margin businesses will look entirely different
Cut Toxic Envious Friends; Small Circles Fuel Success
The saddest thing about success is realizing how few people actually wanted to see you succeed. They smiled to your face but secretly hoped you’d fail. Learn to recognize quiet envy. Cut those people from your life. Small circles create...
Ask Three Questions Before Building or Using APIs
A client messaged me frustrated last month. They'd spent 3 months building something from scratch... that an API could have handled in a week. I've seen the opposite too. Teams so dependent on third-party APIs that one pricing change broke their entire business model. Both...
Therapy Heals Trauma, Fuels Neurodivergent Entrepreneurship
Yes but don’t forget therapy Trauma and neurodivergence are the foundation of bootstrapped entrepreneurship Therapy can help you heal and master it
Authentic Low‑budget Video Beats Pricey Corporate Ads
Dollar Shave Club spent $4,500 on one launch video. The founder starred in it himself. It went viral and got 12,000 customers in 48 hours. Meanwhile you're spending $10k on polished corporate ads nobody watches. That's the gap.
Sell Outcomes, Not Features: Know Customers to Close
Most founders pitch features. Customers buy outcomes. Peter Drucker said the goal of marketing is to know your customer so well your product sells itself. Ford sells status with an F-150, not metal, which drives over $10K in profit per truck. If you study...
Icon AI's Downfall: Bad Execution, Ignored Feedback
What caused this? To early? Poor execution? Bad leadership? A bit of everything IMO. We tried it and used it - it was a mediocre product at times and was okay other times. But their support and unwillingness to implement feedback is what killed them. I...
Don’t Build in a Vacuum: Engage Customers Early
Beware of the Claude code trap Building your masterpiece into an abyss and not talking or selling to customers
Pentagon Accessed OpenAI via Microsoft, Bypassing AI Ban
Everyone is selling their software through third-party carveouts. Sometimes those third parties are the fifth-most valuable companies on Earth
Target Underserved Customers and Tailwinds for True Success
You can have a great product, team, plan, and pricing. But if you’re pursuing the wrong opportunity, none of it matters. Two questions define a great opportunity: Are there valuable underserved customers? Is there a tailwind? Strategy starts there. #BusinessStrategy #Entrepreneurship #StartupStrategy #Innovation #LeadershipDevelopment
AI Agents Can Now Launch Flawless $50k MRR Startups
You can quite literally ask your agent to "build me a 50k MRR startup, make no mistakes" now
Early Marketing Hires: Prioritize Strategy, Execution, or Creativity?
For other founders: When hiring early marketing talent, what do you prioritize most — strategy, execution, or creativity?
GPT‑5.4 Launches with 1M‑token Context, Native Computer Use
GPT-5.4 is launching, available now in the API and Codex and rolling out over the course of the day in ChatGPT. It's much better at knowledge work and web search, and it has native computer use capabilities. You can steer it mid-response,...
Set Success Metrics Across Three Timelines: 30‑90‑180 Days
Founders: Your success metrics need 3 timelines: Quick Wins (30 days): - Implementation complete - Team trained - First workflow live Mid-term (90 days): - 50% adoption - 25% efficiency gain Long-term (180 days): - Full ROI achieved
Craig Newmark Resisted $11B Temptation, Chose Principle over Profit
@craignewmark walked away from an est. $11B by not fully monetizing Craigslist. His Sunday School teachers taught him to "know when enough is enough." The pressure Craig fought is “financial gravity,” the invisible force that pulls companies to extract every possible dollar.
Built Voice AI Years Ahead, Now Powering Millions
In 2017, Dylan Fox started @AssemblyAI— years before the AI boom. It took 5 years for the market to catch up. Now, AssemblyAI powers voice features for thousands of companies and processes hundreds of millions of hours of audio every year. Dylan...
New Contact Module Centralizes Team Replies and Client Context
Contact forms can be tricky if you want to share the received emails with your team: Who replied, what's the history, who is this client? That's why we've added the "Contact" module in @feedbask_com Now, it’s easy to know if a team...
Coaching Strategies to Jump From $1M to $5M ARR
Stuck at $1M ARR. But the goal is to reach $5M. In this episode, I coach @MSliwinski on how to get his software company unstuck. Search "Nathan Barry Show" to watch. https://t.co/NAMZTWA7Ww
AI Founders Are a Tiny Minority—Run Past the Rest
I'm really excited for young founders right now. If you're building with AI today, you're the yellow and red on this chart. Tiny sliver of the population. The green and the gray are the 84% of people who have never touched...
Incumbents Must Pursue Big AI Acquisitions to Stay Competitive
New @ThePeelPod with @chetanp We talk Manus, the history + future of software, why incumbents should make big AI acquisitions, why investors are begging for AI companies to go public, and inside @Benchmark’s latest investing strategy. Thanks @Numeral and @FlexSuperApp for sponsoring...
Bootstrapped SaaS: Profit First Month via Community Outreach
First customer: $200/month plan. Infrastructure bill: $50. Profitable in month one. Found by answering questions on Stack Overflow, GitHub, and Reddit. Joel Griffith bootstrapped Browserless to nearly $4M ARR. https://t.co/hPZB3qTqRL
From $1 Shoe Salesman to Nation's 2nd Largest Apartment Owner
The story of Morgan Properties is one of those "only in America" stories -- started by a shoe salesman in 1985 putting down $1 to buy 3 suburban Philly apartment properties, and growing it into the nation's 2nd largest apartment...
From Zero to $1B in 3.5 Years: Lux‑Backed Success
From ZERO to $1B in 3.5 years. We wrote their first check at Lux… Here’s how they did it.
Hire as Fast as You Train, or Fail
Most startups fail at hiring, not product. They scale headcount faster than they scale training. Lean teams stay small, ship MVPs, track metrics, and fix root issues with Five Whys before adding people. Amazon runs teams small enough to feed with two pizzas...
Customers Can't Define Your Next Big Feature
Hot take that's actually not that hot: Your customers can’t tell you what to build. I know. You've been collecting feature requests. You've got a Notion doc or a Monday board full of them. You send surveys. You read every...
AI Builds Entire Startup Solo in One Night
Holy shit... I built an entire startup last night in one session. No team. No developers. No investors. Just me, a dinner idea, and Spine AI. Here's the full breakdown: 👇 The idea hit at dinner: What if you typed "show me all customers who...
Iterate Goals and Systems: Adapt While Executing
Vacillate between goals and systems. Start with a directional goal. What systems could do that? But you learn while you execute, so the goal might change, as might the system. Etc..
Today's Purchases Teach Float and Discipline
Why today is always the day for my biggest business purchases. Float and Discipline lesson inside. https://t.co/r6DUEVnTtI #SmallBusiness & Deal Making #SMB https://t.co/s6Y0EC0IKN
Half of Teens Earn Online; Schools Should Teach Solo Business
teens should all be building a solo business with an assembly of new tools and agents as part of the core high school curriculum these days - can’t think of a more important and practical building block for new world...
Personal Relationships Beat Giants: Customers Stay with You
3 years of nights and weekends. $500K in ARR. Finally quits his job. Then Google launched the exact same product. That was Joel Griffith's reality at browserless. He'd built a product while working a full-time job and raising a newborn. Finally...
Stop Waiting, Start Inventing Solutions to Your Problems
Entrepreneurs don’t predict the future. They invent it. MrBeast turned videos into burgers and games, Sara Blakely turned $5,000 into Spanx, and Hamdi Ulukaya turned a closed factory into Chobani. An Amazon employee built 1‑Click, a Frito‑Lay worker created Flamin’ Hot Cheetos,...
Don’t Forget: Regularly Verify Your Domain Expiration Dates
PSA check your domain expirations. Had a non-critical but one I want to keep, almost expire. Easy to miss since I only check email very infrequently, and I'm probably not the only one.
Turn a $500K Ask Into Realistic Growth Strategies
If an investor wrote you a $500K check right now and needed a 3X return in 1 year, what would you do?
Future Moats: From Code to Data, Brand, Community
Five years out, when billions of coding agents exist, software development will be largely solved. The traditional moat of “we have better engineers” disappears. Products will be copied, improved, and open-sourced almost instantly. Defensibility will shift away from code itself,...
Top AI Founders Pitching Opportunities at Conviction NYC
3.11 in NYC: @Conviction’s “Mixture of Experts” ✨a curated set of the founders you need to know in AI, pitching you (engineer, researcher, product person) their company to join 💫 https://t.co/hXUsZctqfH
Podcast Interviews Shaping Startups and Careers
lol heard a 2nd startup today that has made sales and evals based on this podcast its fun to be "just an interviewer", but i'm always mindful/humbled by the fact that we are playing with live ammo here. LS has directly...