Now's the Perfect Time to Launch a Contrarian Fund
Perfect. Never been a better time for me to start a fund. Contrarian, just how I like it! 🤣
DIY AI Assistant: Challenging Yet Surprisingly Fun
Building my own AI personal assistant is hard but more fun than I could have imagined :)
AI Security Breakthrough Slashes $15B SaaS Valuations
A security feature launch tweet by Claude wiped out $15B in cybersecurity stocks. AI is eating SaaS. Here’s what this means for the future of SaaS:
Free Live Workshops Teach Future‑Proof AI‑Native PM Skills
I've teamed up with the team at @MavenHQ to put together a series of LIVE workshops centered around the theme of "The AI-Native PM," featuring a stacked lineup of product leaders: @cohentomer @wes_kao @HamelHusain @petergyang @marilynika @talraviv @amankhan @HilaQu @ViableBen...
AI Integration Threatens SaaS Moats, Wipes Out Security Stocks
A security feature launch tweet by Claude wiped out $15B in cybersecurity stocks. AI is eating SaaS. Here’s what this means for the future of SaaS: Cybersecurity names like CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, and Zscaler fell after Anthropic showed Claude...
When Success Sparks Burnout, Questioning Purpose Emerges
Intense work push. Kids stressed about a competition project. House looked like a tornado hit it. Family obligations stacked on top. Everything actually went… pretty well. Once it was over I crashed - and weirdly, instead of feeling relieved, I caught myself wondering: What’s the point...
Delegation Mastery May Blind Us to Core Fundamentals
There will be a weird generation of people who are really, really good at delegating, but at some point won't know what they should actually be delegating to all these systems. And then 10 years later, we'll magically rediscover the concept...
It Takes About Two Years to Raise Capital
The average GP spends 2 years raising capital. Rough time to be an emerging fund manager.
AI Demands Systems Before You Quit Your Job
I've watched hundreds of founders quit their jobs too early and go broke. They all made the same mistake: No systems. AI now makes that inexcusable. Most founders think the hard part is quitting their job. The hard part is building...
Klaviyo Founders Pledge $6M to Keep Boston Entrepreneurs Local
Klaviyo cofounders Ed Hallen and Andrew Bialecki are donating $6 mil to MIT aimed at keeping more entrepreneurs in the Boston area instead of decamping to California. This is one of several great initiatives designed to make Boston a fertile...
Act Now: Ship, Adapt, Succeed vs Waiting
Entrepreneurs take risks, build products, and commit full-time to a plan. Wantapreneurs talk, wait for perfect timing, and avoid risk. One ships before feeling ready and adapts after failure. The other stays in the idea phase with no product and no market proof. Which...
VC Carry Is a Lottery; Startup Equity Beats It
I’ve never seen more Junior VC talent leave VC for tech startups than right now. And it makes sense. 65% of VC investments never return 1x capital. The carry math is tough: GPs don’t see a dollar of carry until LPs get their...
AI Fails without Real‑time Data Architecture
"AI makes real-time data table stakes. When an AI system is automating work flows, interacting directly with customers, and making decisions without a human in the loop, it just doesn't work if its running on stale data. It will give you...
AI Cuts Development Costs, Distribution Remains Challenging
AI is makes software cheaper to build, but not easier to distribute This is the core conflict for years to come
Live Shopping Boom Awaits India: Seize Early Opportunities
On a previous #TeawithGaryVee I was asked how someone could take advantage of the opportunity presented by live shopping on platforms like WhatNot, since India is "not in yet" If you have a question for me, drop it here https://t.co/QjOodl7fTy so...
Cheap AI Cognition Fuels a Vibrant, Efficient Market
AI will unleash the most vibrant new market there could be. Cognition becoming cheap means we will do more with less, emphasis on doing more. https://t.co/jGKgs06jTi
Pylon Secures $51M Series B for AI‑Native B2B Support
In this episode of Founder Firesides, @harjtaggar talks to the founders of @usepylon - @marty_kausas, @advith_c, and @rengrenghello - who recently raised a $51M Series B. Pylon is an AI-native customer support platform built for B2B companies. It helps support, success,...
AI Startups Accelerate Growth, Redefine VC Strategies
I just published How AI-Enabled Startups Are Moving Faster — and Rewriting the VC Playbook https://t.co/q79JMDzaab
Master Trend‑Tracking to Build What Customers Want
To all developers, Solopreneurs and indie hackers: How do you follow trends in your particular niche? How do you know what is demanding and what to build next?
Small Businesses Need Corporate‑style Risk Safeguards
Corporate Risk Practices Are Not Applied to Small Business. Large institutions protect cash flow with layered security—collateral, personal guarantees, and cash flow analysis. Most entrepreneurs don’t think this way. The Business Fortress: https://t.co/cgIOurdGHq https://t.co/t6gGZlE72H
Entry-Level Jobs Vanish, Sparking New Entrepreneurial Paths
How Disruption, Displacement, and Disappearing Entry-Level Roles Are Reshaping #Entrepreneurship in the US https://t.co/aTfYS7kzEg @TalInCollective #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #CPO #Hiring #Recruitment #PeopleManagement #Culture #Change #FutureofHR #HRCurator
Slate Secures $130M, Launches Chinese Headache Drug
Slate starts up with $130M and a headache drug from China https://t.co/6DEltQAI8s by @gwendolynawu #biotech #startups $HLUBF
Never Give Equity without 4‑year Vesting and 1‑year Cliff
Entrepreneurs: NEVER give “equity” to an employee without a 4-year vesting schedule and 1-year cliff. IDGAF who it is!
Stop Overplanning, Ship a Broken Product This Weekend
How to stay at $0 MRR: - Wake up with an idea - Spend 3 hours on the logo - Research competitors all day - Plan the perfect tech stack - Watch startup YouTube - Redesign the landing page - Tell yourself "next week" - Repeat. Instead: Ship something broken...
New Subclip Feature Generates Teaser Posts From Transcripts
The objective for @subclip_app is to become the reference for video creators. So we just added a dedicated feature to create teasing posts, based on your video transcript Wdyt?
Market Wins Over Gut: Test Every Product
I lost $7k testing a jewellery product everyone said was a guaranteed winner. It flopped. I spent $500 on a 'boring' kitchen gadget. It's now doing $30k/month. The market doesn't care about your gut feeling. Test everything.
Winning Founders Treat Failure as Research, Solve Problems
Most startups fail within five years. The founders who win fail more than once. They stop asking “What can I sell?” and start asking “What problem do I solve?” They treat failure as research, fix systems, test demand, and try again. Separate who you...
Businesses Prefer SaaS Over Costly In‑House Tool Development
I keep seeing this take and I just don’t think any serious business will waste time and resources on vibe coding internal tools to replace SaaS subscriptions. Some might give it a go and it makes a good headline for...
AI Prediction Markets Rapidly Closing the Human Advantage
I talked with one entrepreneur today that is building a prediction market. Crowds of humans are still better but AI is improving at a fast rate. Here is a prediction market for your Claws. Worth checking out. Not compensated by them.
Openclaw's Clever Design Masks Potential Negligence and Hidden ToS Breaches
Yikes. If this is true, then it’s both pretty ingenious and supremely negligent. I wonder what percentage of users have done a code audit of Openclaw. And what other fun ToS-voiding surprises lurk in there.
Build Systems Now to Scale Your Brand Later
If you want to sell or license, or scale your brand someday, you can’t be the one holding it together today. 🫢 You need to build a business that delivers consistent quality, with or without you in the room. That requires repeatable...
AI Will Flood Markets With 100x More Clone Competitors
“You’re about to have 100x more competitors because of AI” People cloned my app even when there was no AI. Half-assed attempts by non-serious people trying to make a quick buck, that then faded into obscurity. I imagine vibe-coded competitors to...
Built an AI MVP in Just 30 Minutes
Facilitated an AI MVP workshop and here is what we built in 30 mins 👌🏾
Founder-Product Fit: Solve Your Own Problem
I was building products nobody wanted, burning money on APIs, and watching SaaS after SaaS stall out. So yeah, not my finest chapter. And when you're stuck in that loop, you start asking different questions. The one that changed everything: "Am I solving MY...
Mega‑fund Focus Forces Niche Managers to Specialize
LPs wrote $50 billion in checks to 6 firms. Andreessen Horowitz → $15B Thrive Capital → $10B Lightspeed → $9B General Catalyst → $8B Founders Fund → $4.6B Dragoneer Investment Group → $4.3B Meanwhile, new fund closings dropped nearly 50% in one year from 2,100 to 1,117. LPs...
Old AI Giant Falls as Young Startup Takes Over
IBM, a 115-year-old company, pioneered AI with Watson a decade ago. Today, a 3-year-old startup (Anthropic) just wiped $28 billion off IBM’s market cap. Mercy is for the weak.
Launching SaaS Mastermind for $40K+ MRR Founders
I’m thinking of starting a SaaS mastermind ✨ Other SaaS founders ✨ Over $40,000 MRR ✨ Bootstrapped or seed only ✨ High intent / dialed in Any #buildinpublic people interested?
Top 10 Early‑Stage VC Funds for $250K+
If you're EARLY, 10 pre-seed VC funds to target for $250K+ for your company: - Precursor Ventures - Hustle Fund - Outlander - Y Combinator - Initialized Capital - Pear VC - Zeal Partners - Notation Capital - Liquid 2 Ventures - First Round Capital Connect with the partners of the...
Strategic Choices, Not Platitudes, Uniquely Align Your Company
ICYMI: Fresh new article dropped: Strategy is an integrated set of choices that uniquely positions your company. But what kinds of choices? Not the crappy platitudes like “We put customers first.” The kind that actually aligns everyone in the company to win,...
Seena Labs Defends Against LLM Prompt Injection Attack
Very proud moment of our architecture so far at Seena Labs. We got someone asking the Seena interviewer agent to reveal some code and attack us and this was Seena's response. If anyone has good advice/ resources on how to...
Virality Doesn't Equal Follower Growth on X
If you're chasing virality on X, it does nothing for your followers. Here are analytics from two days, side by side. One with 30k views, and one with over a million. The 30k day saw a lot more followers. The viral post?...
No-Code AI MVPs Are Easy; Reliability Is Hard
Building an AI MVP with no-code is the easy part. The hard part? 👉 Understanding the full architecture 👉 Knowing what to check before and after deployment 👉 Catching risks before users do That’s where real technical knowledge shows up. Anyone can ship a demo. Very few...
Quality Code Costs More than Cheap Code
Agentic coding highlights the age-old truth that "writing code is cheap," while writing good code is extremely expensive. You could always pay someone inexperienced very little to kinda get it done. But real quality had its price. Zero difference when AI is...
Own Your Email, Don't Rely on Google Accounts
It’s wild that in a time where Google account are one of the most popular choice for logging into any 3rd-party service, they can be arbitrarily banned like this. Own your email. Own your domain. Don’t delegate. Sucks that this is...
AI Forces Preseed Focus on Demos, Not Ideas
AI moves the goalposts for raising preseed capital: less “tell me your product idea” more “show me what you built and how customers react” In the 1990s people raised $5m+ just to build the v1 of their website. In 2000s that...
Product Improves, CAC Rises: AI Amplifies Growth Dilemma
your product gets better every week, but your CAC gets worse every month Can your product get good enough to generate organic growth before your marketing channels saturate with scale? AI is going to supercharge this conflict. We’ll write even more and...
Solve Real Problems, Don’t Just Chase Ideas
He turned a mall booth with taped signs into a $3B fintech. Matt Oppenheimer built Remitly by falling in love with the problem, not the product. He stood outside a remittance store, asked customers why they said no, and pivoted fast. He raised...
Invest in People: Showcase Your Team’s Proven Expertise
Showcase your team’s expertise and ability to execute. People invest in people. ✨ Highlight the strengths and achievements of your core team, demonstrating that you have the right people to bring your vision to life.
Hacker News' “Impossible” Products Prove Surprisingly Viable
This is great. A list of all the products Hacker News thought would never work. Sure, the default to response to ANY project on HN is that it could be copied on a weekend. But this list is _strong_ 🤣 https://t.co/4AiXf2WiXw
7 Proven Tactics to Launch SaaS From Scratch
For the 2,300+ of you who bookmarked the full playbook. We both know you’re not reading all that. So I turned it into a list of the 7 things I see actually working right now for launching a SaaS from...