Founding Journey
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13 Years Bootstrapped, Then $22M
Hey y’all — imagine bootstrapping for 13 years… but then raising $22M.
That’s the story of AppSignal, the well-known application performance monitoring startup that grew to over 2,000 customers processing over 100 billion requests per mont...
4 Roles of a Founder
Hey y’all — here’s today at a glance:
Opportunity → AI-Blocked Backup Storage
Framework → AI Company Design Loop
Tool → Angels Partners
Trend → Stripe Atlas Startup Incorporations Are Up
Quote → 4 Roles Of A Founder ...
How To Be Contrarian And Right
Hey y’all — founders can’t afford to trust conventional wisdom too much.
We have to look for opportunities to be contrarian… and right.
LLMs have created many new markets and also re-opened some that VCs previously thought were capped.
D...
AI-First Teams
Hey y’all — here’s today at a glance:
Opportunity → Trade School 2.0
Framework → The Proactive AI-First Team Member
Tool → Pophatch
Trend → Average Per-Unicorn Market Cap
Quote → It’s Hard When No One Listens
PS — Be...
7 Attributes of AI-Native Startups
Hey y’all — if you were starting a new company today, what would it look like?
Not in terms of what problem you’d pick to solve, or who you’d hire, but how would it actually operate?
I saw this video from YC the other day that makes the c...
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