YC Startup School is back! Two days, packed with world-class speakers, hands-on demos, small group sessions with YC partners, and a room full of the most ambitious technical builders from around the world. July 25–26 in San Francisco. ycombinator.com/startupschoo…

What a treat to hear from @ambikasi at @seattlefloworg.

Second-time founders are more likely to succeed because they no longer confuse building with winning. Most of them already learned the hard way that: great tech alone doesn’t matter. Distribution, timing, customer pain, and speed matter more than people think.

We're delighted to be at @seattlefloworg Startup Day! Founders, please stop by to tell us what you are building.

We surveyed 100 early-stage founders. Here's the clearest signal from the data: Founders know what matters, but the infrastructure to support it isn't always in place. 97% say cash flow management is essential. 91% want better digital banking. 73% worry about compliance penalties. 92% would rather be building and fundraising, but back-office operations keep pulling them back. The gap isn't awareness. It's execution. We built Every to close that gap on day one. The full Founder Trend Survey is now live, check out the insights here → ordnl.link/n91bEPS #Startups #Founders #FounderData

Speed of setup is a signal. If your back office takes weeks to get running, that's time you're not selling, hiring, or shipping. "We were literally set up within an hour for contractors and within a day for W2 payroll." — Every customer That's what it should feel like.

Excited to see everyone tomorrow!

a founder has three jobs. everything else is serious amounts of noise. 1. you have to tell the story. roughly in three registers. first investors need inevitability. customers need to *feel* what you do/stand for. & your team needs a mission worth their best years. 2. you must secure the capital before you need it. running out of money is running out of options. you have to be relentless about it. 3. you must obsess over the product. product is the story made accessible for everyone. every shipped detail is a sentence back into the narrative in point number one. this is the entire job. everything else you either delegate or kill. early on with a really small team, delegation is a huge tax so you have to learn to kill more than you delegate.

Our rev ops manager named an AI agent “Sparky” today. I immediately said “oh could be Johnny Five’s son” in a meeting of six people. No one laughed. No one nodded. No one blinked. I made it weird. I made it so weird.

That's a wrap on #MicroConf US 2026 in Portland! Couldn't make it? Here's everything you missed:

Thank you @MicroConf for the wonderful start to the week. Time to head back on the train to Seattle!

Places to launch your startup: 1. ProductHunt 2. Betalist 3. Uneed 4. TrustMRR 5. Fazier 6. OpenAlternative 7. Microlaunch 8. Peerlist 9. TinyLaunch 10. SaaSHub 11. Indie Hackers 12. Hacker News 13. Toolfolio 14. Tiny Startup 15. SideProjectors 16. Alternativeto 17. LaunchIgniter 18. PeerPush 19. SaaS Genius 20. There's an AI for that 21. DevHunt

Interesting topic at @MicroConf Consent could become become a competitive moat in AI. The startups asking ‘what’s our opt-out path?’ right now are going to be in a very different position than the ones who get asked first by a customer.

A very MicroConf moment: Attendee: What does this number mean? Four people: $83k monthly recurring revenue is a million a year.

How you can implement #AI in your product Conversation interface (chat) Generation Categorization Ingestion Analysis Agentic interfaces (MCP/CLI) @robwalling @MicroConf #microconf #saas #ai

We’re having the best time learning from @robwalling, talking to founders, and seeing impressive examples of @tinyseedfund companies. #startup

Day 2 of #MicroConf is underway and @robwalling is on stage asking the question every founder is wrestling with right now: How to use AI in your SaaS?

So great to meet you, @oakuzmenkov at @MicroConf! Looking forward to having @EveryBanking can help you and your customers’ businesses.

Thank you, Conversion Factory for the fun morning ice breaker at @MicroConf

Seattle has a quietly powerful startup community and @seattlefloworg on May 15th is proof. Engaged speakers, real advisors, investors who show up. @everybanking will be there. This one is worth your time. #startup