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In 2013, at 23, I felt on top of the world. I'd just sold my company for $5M. Well, kinda. I'll tell you the story of how I lost it all. The $5M was in stock in a VC-backed company. But not just any stock. This company wasn't just any company. The company was doing $35M in revenue, with 70% gross margins. It was backed by Silicon Valley's who's who. I was living the dream. Or so I thought. My thinking was simple: Worst case? We'd cut staff, print $20M/year. And that rate, I'd easy be able to get my $5M of stock out, maybe even more. How could it go wrong? Spoiler alert: It did. Lol. Slowly, then all at once, we became a zombie company. Revenue started declining. Growth stalled. VCs lost interest. Here's the thing about the VC model. They care about growth and the next big unicorn. We looked like a donkey with a party hat. Suddenly, no one wanted to fund us. We had to sell. Fast. We found a buyer. People congratulated us. But I knew the truth: This wasn't a success. The outcome? We got nothing. Zip. Nada. My $5M paper fortune? Gone with the wind. But here's the silver lining: I learned this lesson at 23, not 43. Fast forward to today: I run a different kind of company. We're profitable. We grow steadily. No VC money. No paper valuations. The best part of my job now is sending out profit shares. 2x a year. Our team's reaction is priceless: "Wow, thank you! This is real?" They're used to VC-backed startups: 1. Equity worth millions (on paper) 2. Promises of future riches 3. Reality - 90% of the time worth nothing I've been there, worn the t-shirt. VC equity is just gravy. Maybe it pays off, probably not. But profit shares? That's real money. In your bank account. Buy a car. Put a down payment on a house. Live your life now, not in some hypothetical future. This is why we're seeing the rise of the dividend startup. More and more people are choosing real money over paper unicorns. Here's my lesson learned: Build a business that prints cash, not promises. Focus on profitability, not vanity metrics. Grow steadily, not at all costs. Your team will thank you. Your stress levels will thank you. Your bank account will definitely thank you. Your family or future family will thank you. Am I grateful for my $5M lesson? Absolutely. It shaped who I am today. So here's to failing young, learning fast, and building businesses that matter. Real value. Real profits. Real impact. I'm not saying you can't build a VC-backed business and build wealth. You totally can. But the odds are stacked against you. And in 2024, easier than ever to build and find customers, building a "small business" like a micro-saas or niche marketplace could be quite the adventure and retirement plan in its own way. And most employees think when they join a VC-backed rocketship, that their stock is as good as gold. It usually isn't. Sharing this story in case it's useful to someone. The rise of the dividend startup isn't just coming. It's here.

Taking two weeks break at this beautiful part of Alps. Calm, relaxing, slow life. Perfect place for retirement but property prices are same as Amsterdam here 🤣

It was a really great experience to build a new SAAS by opening the MVP to beta testers first and building based on their advice. I got really great suggestions and found a lot of edge cases. Now it is time to launch @rankbase_io to more Shopify app devs. 🚀 I hope you will enjoy the tool. Thanks a lot for the help 🙏 @FORSBERGtwo @JonCrawford @iskurbanov @RahulBhisra @robertgatx @bonthoux @hustlin_heev @tiimgreen @AlfredWayne18 @denniscessan @gabemays @mtufekyapan

Hetzner gpu finally

I was using planetscale for shopify app I was building because it was simple service. But 39 prr month min price for a simple db doesn't make sense. I will move to @Cloudflare sqlite service this weekend 😂

Planet scale became as expensive as Amazon RDS with no free tier and one month notice. Why would any company use it?

Well, that's what happens when analytics is stored in same db. You don't need clickhouse of course but you can try out my saas Eventbunker.io which is exactly for the saas owners with dashboards for customers. You can send all kinds of meta data about each ss generation

Then using all info in that json, you can feed customer dashboard, another overall dashboard for you to monitor performance, and possibly other cases. Data is not aggregated so all fields in json data can be used in analytics queries anytime. 22 dollar per 1 million events.

A chat app, Slack competitor with no plan to add threads as feature and people are still blind buying from what they see in a video intro. Fame of dhh 😵

Nice seo guide!

I believe Octa is the one of rare companies who can put their name to every hosted login screen and you can not remove the advertisement from there regardless of your enterprise plans hugeee bill. Marketing as powered by Octa, every day, every tool 😁

Friendly reminder to #indiedeveloper s to renew these domains before they get ~2 $ more expensive :) And also use @Cloudflare domains to renew with good prices. That is more than 1 million requests cost in #aws #lambda or #cloudflare workers in serverless terms 🤑

Here are some reflections from 2023 on databases and developer tools – purposely not all about LLMs. These are half-baked observations from my year, so I’m curious what others think! 🧵

"boring" business selling conference badges. founded by developers. leverage on Eventbrite market. monetization via selling physical cards. generated $700,000 in 2023. ConferenceBadge.com