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Los Angeles founders how much investment do you need to get your startup off the ground?
JUST IN: Shopify Student Discount: 4 Free Months for Eligible Schools - The discount lowers the barrier to entry for budding e‑commerce entrepreneurs, expanding Shopify’s future customer base and fostering early brand loyalty. https://www.pulse.bot/ecommerce/blogs/shopify-student-discount-4-free-months-for-eligible-schools-b9240613-bb58-43eb-9b3d-cf0b7d7cfbd7/ SaaS
Banks, not approved. Investors, hmmm, still thinking. Many SME business owner face that. Are you doing it wrong? Or did you missed some steps? I’m starting a 10-lesson micro-lessons to make SMEs be capital ready. (Save this bit for later.) Lesson 1: Kill the...
We're bringing Founder Friends back to Seoul on April 9, 2026! Join Seongjun Kim for a fireside chat where he'll share his journey and lessons learned. More >> https://t.co/mj1zvs6L8D
I got to reflect on @reflection_ai 😉 Reflection AI aims to counter Chinese AI systems by promoting freely available, high-performance U.S. AI models. As of March 25, 2026, Reflection AI is in talks to raise $2.5 billion at a $25 billion...
Welcome @stevewoz, @JoeMontana, and @thefriley to the Investor Council of @America250 ! I am so excited for them to join @RosieRios @andytangvc and me to review submissions from the next generation of American entrepreneurs. apply here. ...
The prominence of the recent Anthropic story prompts us to think hard about our own clear red lines. Principled companies walk away from money that conflict with their values. That's happening all the time, just not in the headlines. https://t.co/5qPIx5XxA2
JUST IN: Democratizing access to professional coaching could alter the talent development paradigm, shifting the focus from occasional, high‑cost interventions to continuous, data‑driven support. https://www.pulse.bot/human-potential/news/huckleberry-rolls-out-20permonth-ai-coach-to-democratize-employee-development-bea5b053-5434-4aeb-a827-679e88ecd41c/ SaaS
if you’re a startup in 2026 and you don’t have a “labs” group, you might as well be enterprise SaaS
This is what most people don't realize - you can actually build big businesses without VC dollars. Moreover, a lot of the big raises happen BECAUSE the company didn't need money:
My fiction paid newsletter on Substack, Commercial Fiction Club, is up to $13k ARR. Goal is to hit $100k ARR by end of the year. Subscribe here: https://nicolascolefiction.substack.com
On a previous #TeawithGaryVee I was asked "I just wanted some advice on scaling the unscalable" If you have a question for me, drop it here https://t.co/Z96WkBZkB1 so my team can add it to the next Rapid Fire Q&A and follow...
Most cancer drugs go after the same targets: EGFR. PD-L1. HER2. Not because they’re the best targets. Because they’re the only ones we’ve been able to see. RyboDyn Inc. is going after what’s been invisible. The San Diego team, led by Imad Ajjawi, PhD,...
Your $200K/year survival kit. Don't have time to read them all? Here's the 80/20 concepts (a thread🧵):
Budderfly raises $550 million to scale its Energy-as-a-Service platform #energysky -- via pv magazine usa: https://t.co/mVu3KQ8ZPN
On April 16, I'm sitting down with Eric Simons, co-founder & CEO of @boltdotnet, for an in-depth chat on how @boltdotnew went from near-shutdown to $40M in 5 months. We're gonna go deep on the pivot, the decisions, and how...
The advice I give is NOT for founders who think they're creating unicorns, decacorns, or the next Anthropic. What I care about is showing that beautiful tech lifestyle businesses can be built outside the VC ecosystem. I'd rather...
It doesn’t matter if you’ve scaled past $5M, $10M, or $20M. You’ll fail if you think the same strategies will get you to your next milestone. • The offer • Creative approach • Targeting • Product lineup • The team All can change at each...
A candidate used AI to ace the coding test. The team couldn't tell the difference. This is the new hiring reality for SaaS founders 👇 On this week's SaasRise Mastermind, we broke down the biggest challenges SaaS CEOs are facing...
Agentic commerce could lower the cost of building companies. What does that mean for VCs? https://t.co/meE1SvxnF0
Origin Secures $30 Million Series A+ to Scale AI‑Powered Global Benefits Platform Origin’s financing highlights a growing consensus that AI can unlock efficiency in traditionally manual HR functions. By centralising disparate benefits data, the platform not only cuts costs but also...
I got to know Jim Guzy on the football field. My school, Hillview Elementary, was playing against Fremont Elementary in flag football. They had this kid who was crazy fast on the field. That was Jim Guzy. Later, he became an electrical engineer...
I have been really busy building SAAS and finally seeing some traction. I was not posting much but here I am 39.99 MRR not bad so far. I will update as we go, I have 3000 leads and trying to...
"The customer is not always right when it comes to guiding your product development." $10M ARR bootstrapped. Never built what customers asked for verbatim. Built for the outcomes they actually needed. https://t.co/ubYZfSUe3L
This ex-colleague of Stan Druckenmiller once ran a $3.5B hedge fund. Then he pivoted to running a consumer wellness company.
Legal AI startup Harvey just reached an $11B valuation. On The Upstarts Podcast, CEO Winston Weinberg shares how a cold email to Sam Altman helped launch its journey, and why he believes lawyers are a surprise power user of AI tools. Plus,...
Ray Kroc didn’t just build restaurants. He built a system. * Persistence beats talent * Systems scale businesses * Execution wins long term Lessons from McDonald’s growth: https://michaelwmchugh.com/ray-krocs-mcdonalds-success/
at a ceo offsite with one of our crossover investors and im pretty objectively the most junior/early stage founder here and its so genuinely inspiring + intimidating in best way
I spoke to a startup building software to help clinical trials recruit more of the right kinds of people more quickly - a serious challenge at present.
Alix Earle spent years posting about her acne, from Accutane rounds to bare-face breakouts. Now she turned that story into Reale Actives, a 4-step skincare line built with her dermatologist. For a year, she seeded unlabeled products, teased a mystery account, and...
Got a squat rack finally so why not vibe design and code my own fitness app while I'm at it. https://t.co/0utcVSDSsw
Founder Mode is an arrival. It means you’ve overcome the fear of failure, and you simply execute to overcome any obstacle in your way.
Some nice new ideas upvoted by everyone today With the new AI models + human upvoting and downvoting there might actually be good ideas here for people to build startups from Possibly... https://t.co/PcyxSjjTQs
Founders are running their decks, docs, and narratives through AI to drive investor cycles. But investors are doing the same: they’re making (more) comments on investor agreements, advisor docs, warrants, etc. Founders: expect to work harder to close.
Nvidia-Backed Startup Seeking to Counter Chinese AI Eyes $25 Billion Valuation Yes, it's all about "countering Chinese AI"... https://t.co/7VwOnVxaeb
I talked to one of female founder clients today & she said something that stuck - “Fundraising [as a female] is so hard - so much harder than even they say.”
OpenAI Backs New AI Startup Seeking Bot Army Breakthroughs The San Francisco company, called Isara, was founded last June by two 23-year-old AI researchers, Eddie Zhang and Henry Gasztowtt. They have hired researchers from Google, Meta , and OpenAI. https://t.co/TmyAydRBDk
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you don’t need Mark Cuban on your cap table in order to succeed.
Half the battle in a startup is figuring out who not to spend time with.
The Lean Startup proposes a unique way of looking at growth metrics The book suggests that the typical metrics, user registration growth and gross revenue, don’t paint an accurate picture of true sustainable growth Rather, each founder needs to find their...
Create one Claude skill a day - that’s all you need to build million dollar business.
When it comes to investing in the age AI, “nothing has changed, but everything has changed.” As Hustle VC co-founder Elizabeth Yin explains to me, understanding a founder’s potential and a company’s basic health and outlook is the same as...
The biggest mistake I made early in my career was waiting for permission... Waiting for someone to tell me I was ready or good enough. That my ideas were valid. That I could make it work from Nova Scotia... Stop...
Craig Walker has done something very few founders manage to pull off once, let alone repeatedly. He launched GrandCentral, which became Google Voice. He launched DialPad which became Yahoo Voice. And now, with his latest Dialpad, found 15 years ago,...
Sit deeply in uncertainty to figure out what you really want to build. Slop is great at feigning confidence. You aren't more insightful just because you plugged in more context. Discernment takes discomfort.
The SaaS era was defined by unbundling : find a workflow, optimize it, own it. Salesforce chose sales automation. Slack chose chat. Dropbox chose file sharing. Point solutions won by perfecting single workflows. The playbook : own one pain point,...
It's always great to chat with Kyle Poyar for his new series all about launching and growing as an AI startup, check it out below
William on how an early stage employee takes way more risk than a founder: "If I'm making $400-500K at Google or Meta and go to an early stage company to get 1% of this company and make $90,000. I've now changed...
If you need all the answers before you start, it's never going to work. Action comes first. Answers come after. You can have absolutely no idea how… And still have complete confidence you'll figure it out.
