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Good is the minimum. The rules for being a comedian and a startup founder are exactly the same. The work never ends. It just gets harder. #startupfounder #founder #startup #entrepreneurship
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I agree. If you are a startup founder buy my book and checkout his lightening bolt. Clearly needs to be the face of the brand.
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19 Nov 2025
Love how @robwalling frames this. Founders forget that without traction skills, product doesn’t matter. I go deeper on this in Starting A Startup.
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18 Nov 2025
The Core Four SaaS skills revealed! In this week’s episode of @startupspod 👇
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15 Oct 2025
If your a startup founder The best piece of advice I can give you if you're early stage is to take the default baseline of if you build it, no one gives a shit. Treating indifference as the baseline, no ones waiting, no ones watching. Not because you're not smart, not because
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5 Oct 2025
As a StartUp Founder - Customer One is a really sacred and special moment no matter where you are in life. BRB. heading to the post office. #entrepreneur #booktok #startupfounder #startup #founder
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Starting a Startup | Build Something People Want - A Practical Guide for Founders to Win
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1 Sep 2025
LAUNCH If you have to game your customers, you don’t have a business model you have a calendar trick. Trust compounds more than the extra 8% you’re hiding. And if you can’t make it work on 12 honest months, that’s not pricing power, that’s shitty unit economics.
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27 Aug 2025
The Swift x Kelce news… Same impact as slack going down. See you all tomorrow.
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20 Jul 2025
With the AI craze, the FOMO, the everyone else seems to be crushing it in AI except me - it’s all mostly true you should be AI first. BUT. The one thing that isn't changing is the foundation and the foundation is build a great product that solves a problem so painful people will
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13 Jul 2025
You do not need to pay someone to raise money for your startup. If they ask for a retainer or a success fee or a due diligence fee upfront, they’re not helping — they’re feeding by on your FOMO. Real investors don’t need middlemen. Makes you look incompetent. They are predatory
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18 Nov 2024
There’s only one golden rule to building a successful startup—it’s a universal truth: - Build a winning team. - Build something people want and will pay for. - Do it fast, keep it lean. That’s the whole playbook. Everything else? Just details. But here’s the thing: The
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There are two types of startup founders: those who make things happen, and those who wonder what happened. Which one are you going to be?
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Despite the predatory startup fundraising p*rn on your insta feed claiming you're funding ready & they can help. You likely aren't, can't & won't. So, let's pivot to what actually matters. What now?
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21 Aug 2024
Startup founders. Be frugal. Not cheap. Every penny you don’t spend adds a moment more runway. Every penny should have a (potential) return associated to it - doesn’t mean don’t take big bold bets - just understand the consequences. your $$ earns 5% just sitting in the bank.
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StartUp Founders looking for PMF are never going to find it. At best, you'll catch a fleeting moment where everything aligns - right product, right problem, right time. Until it's not.
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11 Aug 2024
For #StartUpFounders - XXX-Led Growth. Product-Led, Sales-Led, Community-Led, or whatevs, can be deceptive. A growth motion without retention is like building sandcastles on the beach - epic, awesome, but gone by morning.
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StartUp Founders looking for PMF are never going to find it. At best, you'll catch a fleeting moment where everything aligns - right product, right problem, right time. Until it's not. Phantom Market Fit.
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30 Apr 2024
The magic #StartUp #Founder ingredient is ecosystem mapping.
Accelerate customers, intelligence, features, roadmap, acquisition, retention & credibility... without a proportional increase in your sales & marketing dollars.
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Visionary founders die trying to educate the market. Intelligent founders understand its a choice whether to create or capture customers. This isn't about innovation; it's terrain management aka Blue Ocean vs Red Ocean.
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StartUp Founders? If your app crashes overnight, what’s YOUR move? Transparency with customers, or hope it slides under the radar?
This isn't about your tech stack's resilience; it's a litmus test for your values
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