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your startup doesn't need a rebrand. it needs customers.

spent 3 months on the product. 3 days talking to users. shipped v2 in a week. should have just started with the conversations.

the only metric that matters before $10k MRR: are people telling their friends?

PMF is not 'people said they'd buy it.' PMF is 'people are mad when it's down.'

fundraising is renting money. customers are earning it. both have their place.

most startups don't die from competition. they die from the founders stopping.

if you can explain your startup in one sentence without jargon, you understand it. if you can't, you don't.

0 to 1 is a mindset. 1 to 10 is a system. most founders only know how to do one of them.

nobody cares about your roadmap. they care about their problem.

shipped my first product in 2022. 3 users, $0 revenue. shipped my 7th in 2024. 847 users, $4k MRR. iteration is the strategy.

your competitor raising $5M is not a threat to you. it's proof the market exists.

the gap between 'I have users' and 'I have customers' is the gap between a startup and a business.

first 100 customers should come from you doing things that don't scale. if you're building a growth system before you have 100 customers, you're wrong.

revenue solves most problems. keep that in mind when you're trying to solve problems that aren't revenue.

the best product in the market is almost never the most successful. distribution eats product for breakfast.

hiring your first 5 people is a values exercise, not a skills exercise. skills can be learned. values are expensive to change.

the thing about building in public is that it forces you to have opinions. which forces you to make decisions. which forces you to ship.

don't raise money to scale something that doesn't work. raise money to scale something that does.

if your DAU/MAU ratio is under 0.2, you don't have a retention problem. you have a habit problem.

the best startup content on twitter comes from founders who are losing money and talking about it honestly.

GPT Realtime 2.0 is pretty incredible 17 startup ideas that ONLY work because of what this model makes possible

How to build a vertical AI agent cash-flowing startup: find painful workflow in a boring industry → talk to 10 people who do that workflow every day → map every step, every tool, every spreadsheet → do the workflow manually first → be the agent before you build the agent

The 36 BIGGEST startup opportunities right now 1. biggest b2c: solving loneliness. third spaces, community apps, IRL 2. biggest b2b: managed AI employees for businesses 3. biggest overlooked: elder tech. 70 million boomers who want products that make them happier & healthier

I think we're going to see more $1M consumer apps built by 1 person this year than in the entire history of the App Store.

There's probably $100+ billion up for grabs for people who build startup for AI agents Over the next 10 years you're going to have a market of billions of customers (agents) with millions of wallets that want to use your services.

I just got back from SF and I FEEL INSPIRED. I spent 5 days with frontier AI model teams, AI startup founders, and 3 billionaires.

Bad news: 99% of VCs don't like me after this tweet Good news: 99% of founders have a similar story to mine

I was once pitching in a board room at a top 3 VC firm for a $15M Series A. 12 people in the meeting. One of the GPs fully fell asleep. Out cold for 30+ minutes. Nobody acknowledged it.

I can't believe how fun building a company is right now. The weird part is it doesn't feel like work anymore.

When I first became a dad I was genuinely worried my career would suffer. The opposite happened. 3 things changed that I wasn't expecting.

Funny how the pendulum shifts 1. "GPT wrappers are worthless" → the value accrues to application layer 2. "AI will eliminate white collar jobs" → white collar workers will rise due to AI 3. "Open source will kill closed source" → both winning

Every CEO layoff letter in 2026 follows the same template. "Hardest decision I've ever made. AI changed everything. New roles designed for AI-native work." I feel like I'm reading the same letter with different logos.

My 30+ observations on the greatest opportunities in AI agents right now. 1. The new buyer on the internet is an AI agent. Imagine billions of new customers showing up with money to spend but they only shop via MCP.

Be like Lenny (@lennysan) 1. Find a niche you genuinely care about 2. Obsess over creating insanely useful content 3. Build products that solve their problems 4. Be really nice 5. Design a life you don't need a vacation from

The hot theme each year is basically a talent and capital vacuum cleaner. It sucks all the smartest people and money into one room. The most valuable companies get built in the empty rooms.

There are more startup ideas in a single 100,000+ person subreddit than in every Y Combinator batch combined. Every post that starts with "is there a better way to do this" is a product waiting to be built with AI.

cringe is just the entrance fee to doing anything interesting. cringe mountain looks different for everyone. for some it's posting. for some it's cold DMing. for some it's charging money for the first time. same mountain. climb it.

I actually think the whole "permanent underclass" narrative is wrong. I think we're about to see the largest EXPLOSION of entrepreneurship in human history.

I don't know why more people aren't buying dead SaaS companies and turning them into AI agent companies.

7 tiny AI agent startup ideas you can start building today 1. The domain flipper agent. Monitors expired domain drops, scores them on backlinks and keywords, sends you a ranked list every morning.