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The traditional approach is to do some customer research, throw an MVP out there as fast as possible, and hope it hits. After being early at three startups that achieved over $1M in run-rate in their first six months of going live, Gagan Biyani has landed on an approach that’s quite different.
As an entrepreneur, I have never felt such pain as I do while typing this. We have faced numerous challenges before but non compares to the arbitrary closing of our Payment account by Stripe for literally no reason.
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<p><b>Update: I am no longer personally angel investing - I’m focussed on other things at the moment. Please don’t ask me to invest in your co...
A framework to make your pitch 10x more compelling in a few minutes
Making Software, the hardest way to make an easy living. TL:DR – check out Rithm: Habit tracking machine v2 in apple app store today Hey Kyle here, maker of Rithm. So early 2020, I launched Rithm, an app that helps...
While I was at a family wedding a few weeks ago, one of my aunts asked me, “So, what’s the hardest part about designing a game? It must be coming up with the ideas, right?” I laug…
I first wrote this essay a few years ago. A founder mentioned it to me over the weekend, and so I decided to re-publish it here. One thing that's bothered me in the time since I wrote it is the way...
Many moons ago, when I was very young and you were even younger... London was in full bloom of tech-startups. I was running my own consultancy. Dashing from business to business, trying to pick up work as an expert in this new-fangled "Mobile Internet" thing. Some of the companies I worked with were great. Some of…
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As a Founder, you are the Chief Storyteller. Here are the storytelling methods we have observed in pitches that motivate VCs to invest.
In the past five years, over 20,000 businesses have started with Stripe Atlas and have generated over $3 billion in revenue. We surveyed 1,000 founders—here’s what we found.
The story of its last-minute pivot and epic comeback.
How I “failed” at a YC startup, worked at early Stripe, and then raised $20M
How do I increase TinyPilot’s profit margins?
I laugh at this tweet every time I remember it:
In January 2020 I closed a $5.1M seed round, my first financing for my first company. I’ve closed another ~$6M since then. This is how I raised that first round.
Conventional wisdom is: Don’t raise money from a ton of angel investors because it’ll clutter the cap table and be a pain in the butt. I strongly disagree.
We created a free Slack message scheduler called Message Them Later and didn't market it. Yet, somehow, we have 200k users and counting. What does that tell us?
Data modeling is hard. Here are some missteps to avoid when you're developing your models.
In my experience, most professional software engineers in industry have little to no experience doing competitive analysis. That’s a shame, because competitive analysis is one of the most useful skills that an engineer can have.
An archive of the best articles from Marc Andreessen’s now defunct blog
Tell your company's story more effectively, including specific details that matter to investors.
Every company has a focus, and for most it's either sales or product. Here's why both are the wrong focal points
