The Sales Playbook Every Startup Founder Needs Learn how a simple framework helped a non-sales founder skyrocket to $1M ARR in just 7 months, without a sales team. From a problem-centric approach to crafting value statements and handling objections, this founder-led playbook transforms sales into a repeatable, stress-free process. Perfect for technical founders or anyone without a sales background, this guide equips you to connect with customers, build trust, and close deals faster. So, SAVE this founder led sales playbook. TAG a founders who's working on their sales process. DROP ME A DM if you want my 'Complete Sales Script Template'. Digital Delane #juntaedelane #digitaldelane #highticketsales #leanstartup #salesplaybook #coldcall #productdiscovery
How AI Is Protecting Logistics Workers During The Holiday Rush via @forbes @Samsara https://t.co/XZ1A8TBTXx
AI2041 ebook promotion runs from Nov 3 to 9 for only $1.99 (make sure you choose the e-book format with preferred U.S. retailers from the publisher's site). I started writing the predictions in the book 5 years ago. The...
There's a very big difference between the amount of demand for a certain category and how much of it can be 'captured' by marketing efforts. Look at some of the big focus areas in B2B marketing today and you'll see major...
I wake up, have some coffee, answer a few emails And then ... fire up Replit and other AI Agents. And we just pick up right where we were yesterday. No complaints. No arguments. No forgetting. No sick days. No b.s. No drama. No pretending. No quitting. The reality is, this...
https://t.co/8kfP3o3TrD What happens when one of the most human-centric roles in business—Revenue Operations—meets the most transformative technology of our time? Join me, and Meredith Schmidt, longtime Salesforce executive and trailblazer in modern RevOps, for a provocative conversation on how Agentic AI is...
year end financial audits founders, what are you paying? is $78k too much?

This founder is basically giving it away to move onto a new startup. Live on @acquiredotcom: VC backed cold email SaaS with AI-powered outreach and smart inbox management. > $495K TTM revenue > $155K TTM profit > 100% YoY growth Full listing: https://t.co/iY13bIBtfn https://t.co/ID2m72SOGo
One of the best ROIs in AI is one most teams aren't using yet. I was at Madison Square Park teaching AI to strangers, and someone asked: "What's one thing I could automate today that would actually save time?" So I showed...
You likely have people on your team that have been consistently *right* most of the time. They tend to push for a particular decision/path and turn out to be right over the fullness of time. Let's call them "Ingrid The...
Very pleased to be working with Amazon to bring a lot more NVIDIA chips online for OpenAI to keep scaling!
Thought Leadership is a hot topic for B2B marketers right now and justifiably so. Research from IBM's Cindy Anderson and Anthony Marshall found the cumulative value of purchases influenced by executives consuming thought leadership content to be $265 billion globally...
You can always tell when it's marketing planning season. Not because of the leaves changing - but because the air smells faintly of pumpkin-spiced Excel spreadsheets. That potent blend of caffeine, desperation, and conditional formatted pivot tables can only mean...

Frameworks, metrics, strategy—yes, they matter. But the hardest parts of work are often the soft, messy, human parts we rarely discuss openly. The self-doubt, anxiety, the interpersonal dynamics that get in the way of actually getting things done. I'm excited to...
Law firms are running automated scans on Shopify stores right now, hunting for $10,000+ settlements. Over 10,000 small businesses get hit annually, and overlay widgets make you prime troll bait. Here's why: Overlays signal you're aware of accessibility (can't claim ignorance) They...

this weekend, i vibe coded a prototype email client that i want... - for each email, looks up contacts details + notes in attio, then org details, looks at lists to determine if portfolio, LP, etc. - summarizes this context and creates...

Is your rev rec messing up your retention? 📉 Learn how to clean your retention metrics with a pro forma MRR schedule — and why invoice data is your real source of truth. Watch here 🎥 https://t.co/bII7ixXC6d #SaaSMetrics https://t.co/5d7ZmKnORA
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Synthesia just raised $200M at a $4B valuation after rejecting Adobe’s $3B offer. Here’s how they're building for the long game👇
Synthesia just raised $200M at a $4B valuation after rejecting Adobe's $3B offer. Here's how they're building for the long game Some context: Back in 2017, Victor Riparbelli left Copenhagen for London. AI wasn't a hot topic. VR was. He didn't know what to...
Here I have a cute argument with Grok about whether it is a world model. As a kid a neighbor and I built our own sailboat. Then raced it on the San Francisco Bay. In three years @Tesla_Optimus will build a faster...
Today’s AI slop was yesterday’s food. Before algorithms ate our words, farmers fed leftovers to pigs. It was a closed loop. What people couldn’t use became nourishment for something else. Nothing was wasted because nothing could be. Then industry found shortcuts. Distillers...

[🚨 BREAKING] OpenAI bets big on AWS. A $38B partnership to make ChatGPT faster, smarter, and ready to scale. → EC2 UltraServers with NVIDIA GB200s for large-scale training capabilities → Tens of millions of CPUs for real-time speed → Built for the next generation...

How to Create a Presentation That Gets You Promoted - B2B Marketing Blog | Webbiquity - https://t.co/JkIJJVwXW6 https://t.co/KrA5aTEsP3
I really wish more people understood this about using public speaking to grow your business! (Oh, btw: webinars ARE public speaking, and we need to approach them accordingly to drive better results.) Can't wait to lead this session.
The startup world has been selling founders a lie. The lie: be grateful for any check, valuation is everything, giving up control is normal. This mindset benefits investors, not you. But some founders are waking up and choosing a different path. A smarter path. Like...
Every B2B founder I talk to wants to start posting on Linkedin. But 95% of them have no idea where to start. Here's a list of 9 content ideas that helped me go viral and generate 50M views on Linkedin...
ai can draft legal docs but you still want a lawyer to review it. i’m a fan (and investor) of services like @DocDraftai that combines the best of both into a single elegant service :)
Companies selling the dream of autonomous household humanoid robots today would be better off embracing reality and selling “remote operated household help”. Have teams of employees running them 24/7, with the option to reduce their workload as autonomous behaviors become...
Melanie Perkins (co-founder and CEO of Canva) on "Column B" thinking: "There are two ways of planning. Imagine you you're building a castle on the hill. One way is imagining what would be the most magical, wonderful, mythical, castle you...

AI coaching is going to revolutionize preventative health Whoop now tracks bloodwork and biomarkers, combining with sleep, strain, and recovery data for personalized AI plans It's just the start, but in 10 years everyone will probably have a personal AI coach/doctor that's...
Google is building a world model that knows everything too. This is a big win for Apple, even though it looks like a loss.
It won’t matter. Now that I see what Tesla and xAI is up to, building a world model, that knows EVERYTHING, I am 100% convinced that Tesla will be the world leader in humanoids. And will be all autonomous within three years. I...

11 Qualities to Look for When Partnering with a #CSR #TeamBuilding Company https://t.co/dWk5zRdUxI via @bestcorpevents Here's how to choose a provider that can produce a memorable experience for your employees and make a real impact. #meetingprofs #corporateevents https://t.co/hD5OKgKrdY
Imagine an event where your heroes of digital marketing are all presenting. That event is happening on Wednesday. My heroes will be there. It's a free webinar totally focused on lead gen and conversion. I'm doing a session on AI for lead generation....

A few months ago, @MrWillNelson had a simple idea: What if founders could grow their audience on social media just by talking? That idea became TalkStories, a tool that calls you daily, captures your insights, and turns them into posts. I’ve used the...
When should you buy AI vs build AI? Most teams start with the wrong assumption: that building means innovation. In reality, it usually means distraction. Buying wins when speed, scale, and integration matter. Building only pays off when your data itself is...
Founder of company doing billions in revenue only has 300 employees. Doesn’t allow for hiring any new head count until it feels like people will quit from excruciating pain. Waits to see if the responsibilities can be absorbed by the org. Personally interviews...
Most big companies get innovation all wrong. They think it's about chasing the next big idea. But IBM's top software leader, Rob Thomas, points out, what really drives innovation isn't ideation, it's iteration. Too many teams treat innovation like a one-and-done event. They...
Founders: Ask your VCs in a quiet moment how much carry they have in the fund Very roughly, multiple this by the funds' ownership stake in your startup … and then once again by 0.2 That's about how much they own of you
Trust is what happens between the meetings. Not in the agenda. Not in the slides. It's built in the tiny moments—the hallway chats, the "how's your dad doing?" check-ins, the post-call laughs. That's where culture quietly compounds. Remote teams don't get those moments...
Startups are 1 step back, 2 steps forward, 1 step back, 2 steps forward, etc. From the outside, HubSpot might seem like a smooth up-and-to-the-right story. It belies what actually goes on inside. The best way I’d describe HubSpot is two...

Will AI replace you, or empower you? 🤔 Artificial Intelligence: Change, Adapt and Evolve or Become Redundant https://t.co/MXS9sqG0f4 A thought-provoking article, by @grattonboy #AI #FutureOfWork @grattongirl https://t.co/vhroANardT
No excuse anymore not to train your own models! This 200+ pages with full transparency. Let's go open-source AI!
3 AI Prompts That Turn ChatGPT Into Your Friend and Therapist Exploring unconventional uses of AI—this article shares practical prompts to shift ChatGPT from a tool to a companion or support aid, with caution around boundaries and ethics. Read more https://lnkd.in/eJXKC4Rw #ChatGPT...

How a Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway https://t.co/lMiONmkR5m @GoogleDeepMind #ai #iot #5g #agenticai #ces2026 #Healthcare https://t.co/jGcrTLlnfO
Content isn't king (Not anymore) With AI, now anyone can create endless “good-enough” content. How do you break through? Original thinking.
In 2009 I became the first pool builder in the world to aggressively discuss pricing online. That one decision led to millions in sales. In 2019 I became the first fiberglass pool manufacturer in the world to have a pricing calculator...
Terence Kawaja and the team at LUMA Partners share the latest data on #martech and #adtech M&A activity from Q3. Overall, the market for martech acquisitions has remained healthy. Although, given how many pre-2020 martech companies are looking for an exit,...