Tag: startups
All the articles with the tag "startups".
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(DAY 1210) Fighting Solo and Finding Escape Velocity
Building a business in isolation is a lonely battle, but escape velocity comes from staying dangerously close to your users and letting their needs pull you forward.
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(DAY 1202) Summaries Help Preserve Context
Startups speak with hundreds of candidates and people in the ecosystem, and short summaries become essential if you want to retain useful context months later.
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(DAY 1154) The Age of Personal Software: When Code Becomes Abundant and Slop Follows
Everyone can code now. Software is approaching zero marginal cost and will become as abundant as content. That abundance will bring a wave of software slop—but it will also unlock an era of deeply personal, precisely built software.
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(DAY 1153) The Deal Breakers No One Reads: Why Candidates Spray and Pray
Last-minute hiring gaps reveal something unsettling: candidates are applying to roles they are not qualified for, ignoring the essential details that would have disqualified them immediately.
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(DAY 1148) 230 Apps on My Phone: A Cleanup and What It Revealed
I had 230 apps on my iPhone. I am removing 97 of them. Another 25 are international apps I keep for product exploration. The exercise also surfaced ghosts like Blu Smart and Otipy—reminders of how many consumers get fleeced when startups abruptly shut down.
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(DAY 1146) Everyone's Just Waiting for Rate Limits to Refresh
AI coding agents have changed the rhythm of engineering teams. Developers now pace their day around rate limits. It is a strange new behavior, and it is almost certainly coming to every other function inside a startup.
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(DAY 1140) Building a Business Is a Loop of Optimism and Anxiety
Building a business often means living inside a loop of anxiety and optimism, where founders wake up worried about what is not working and still keep believing in what the company could become.
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(DAY 1083) Venture Capital Interest in AI Tutors — Building at Scale
Multiple VC firms reaching out about AI tutors. The value of venture capital in product, GTM, and scale — and India's growing VC ecosystem.