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OpenAI is commoditizing successful AI startups unusually fast
Published: Sun, Sep 27 2026 @ 16:41:20

I shipped an app that got 47 downloads and zero dollars in 90 days
Published: Sat, Aug 29 2026 @ 23:08:58

AI made software dramatically cheaper to create
Published: Thu, Aug 13 2026 @ 3:14:57

Your business probably does not need an app
Published: Sun, Aug 9 2026 @ 23:31:04

I run paid ads across a portfolio of more than 40 apps
Published: Mon, Aug 3 2026 @ 16:03:19

The questions a CEO should ask in the approval meeting
Published: Fri, Jul 31 2026 @ 12:19:26

Universities are becoming very expensive places to buy time, friendships
Published: Wed, Jul 15 2026 @ 17:40:03

NVIDIA buying Hugging Face could make open AI depend on a single vendor
Published: Sun, Jul 12 2026 @ 13:56:10

AI demos work because the data is clean
Published: Tue, Jul 7 2026 @ 7:43:02

Four months after I shipped SnackCheckApp.com
Published: Tue, Jun 23 2026 @ 15:32:54

The price of content is about to separate from the price of access
Published: Thu, Jun 18 2026 @ 9:19:46

Owning your own e-commerce store has become cheaper than earning attention
Published: Tue, Jun 16 2026 @ 6:50:30

Entry-level jobs are becoming a less reliable way to predict future headcount
Published: Mon, Jun 15 2026 @ 5:35:53

Everyone talks about how AI makes startups easier to build
Published: Sat, Jun 13 2026 @ 3:06:38

Everyone seems to be reading this chart from Financial Times
Published: Tue, Jun 9 2026 @ 23:22:45

120 employees, 40 experimenting with AI, all trapped in private tabs
Published: Mon, Jun 1 2026 @ 13:25:44

Most firms are optimizing the wrong variable
Published: Sun, May 31 2026 @ 12:11:07

Coding and design keep getting cheaper
Published: Sun, May 17 2026 @ 13:31:12

The next platform shift will not be won where users click
Published: Tue, May 12 2026 @ 6:33:36

We spend endless hours agonizing over marketing, tweaking brand colors
Published: Tue, May 5 2026 @ 15:51:36

Moats are retention tools sold as growth strategy
Published: Wed, Apr 29 2026 @ 1:09:36

Anthropic has figured out that fear sells
Published: Sun, Apr 26 2026 @ 9:40:48

If your strategy requires you to fight for every deal
Published: Sun, Apr 19 2026 @ 18:58:48

Most “disruption” is just a better interface on top of the same system
Published: Sat, Apr 18 2026 @ 11:14:24

AI boosted coding and now is moving to GTM
Published: Fri, Apr 10 2026 @ 12:48:00

Apple’s “Apple Business” launch is not a productivity-suite story
Published: Sun, Apr 5 2026 @ 5:50:24

One of the stranger patterns in AI adoption is emotional, not technical
Published: Sun, Mar 29 2026 @ 15:08:24

Stripe is launching the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) open standard
Published: Thu, Mar 19 2026 @ 1:13:12

Customer Support: Growth Lever or Labor Sponge?
Published: Thu, Jan 15 2026 @ 14:16:24

Understanding VC Investment Stages: From Seed to Dominance
Published: Wed, Jan 14 2026 @ 10:16:27

How a 10% Credit Card APR Cap Could Raise Your Growth Costs
Published: Wed, Jan 14 2026 @ 10:16:26

Why Education No Longer Guarantees Employment
Published: Tue, Jan 13 2026 @ 10:16:24

Stop Wasting $100K on Dev Shops Without Strategy
Published: Sun, Jan 11 2026 @ 10:16:27

Why Forward-Deployed Engineers Are the New Operating System
Published: Fri, Jan 9 2026 @ 10:16:37

Why Remote Work Fails for Sense-Making
Published: Fri, Jan 9 2026 @ 10:16:35

Most people get competition wrong
Published: Wed, Dec 17 2025 @ 10:16:55

Growth and Pricing with AI
Published: Wed, Dec 17 2025 @ 10:16:51

AI, Growth, and Delivery
Published: Wed, Dec 17 2025 @ 10:16:48

AI, Engineering, and Startups
Published: Wed, Dec 17 2025 @ 10:16:45

The loud debates about AI safety tend to focus on sci-fi ris
Published: Wed, Dec 17 2025 @ 10:16:44

corporate transformations
Published: Wed, Dec 17 2025 @ 10:16:43

AI in Operations, Growth, and Engineering
Published: Wed, Dec 17 2025 @ 10:16:42

AI and Growth
Published: Wed, Dec 17 2025 @ 10:16:41

AI in Growth, Engineering, and Leadership
Published: Wed, Dec 17 2025 @ 10:16:38

The bar for “good enough” is
Published: Wed, Dec 17 2025 @ 10:16:36

AI in Automation, Product, and Growth
Published: Wed, Dec 17 2025 @ 10:16:31

Automation and Growth with AI
Published: Wed, Dec 17 2025 @ 10:16:30

Google just yeeted Antigravity into orbit
Published: Wed, Dec 17 2025 @ 10:16:24

There's a prevailing belief that AI, especially large language models
Published: Mon, Nov 17 2025 @ 10:16:35

When Charles Schwab launched discount brokerage in the 1970s
Published: Mon, Nov 17 2025 @ 10:16:29

ChatGPT remembers everything about
Published: Thu, Sep 18 2025 @ 11:16:29

Customer, Growth, and Strategy
Published: Tue, Aug 19 2025 @ 11:16:41

Growth, Strategy, and Product
Published: Tue, Aug 19 2025 @ 11:16:39

Most dev teams obsess over "doing it right
Published: Tue, Aug 19 2025 @ 11:16:35

It's not the code that kills your vision, it's the unclear decisions
Published: Tue, Aug 19 2025 @ 11:16:30

AI won't crush your industry
Published: Tue, Aug 19 2025 @ 11:16:27

The company known for baby photos (Meta) could end up more valuable than Apple
Published: Sun, Jul 20 2025 @ 11:16:28

Now is the time to (re)build
Published: Sun, Jul 20 2025 @ 11:16:26

Beauty is the outcome of coherence, proportion,
Published: Sun, Jul 20 2025 @ 11:16:25

Burger King spent like a League Two club and got a Champions League return
Published: Fri, Jun 20 2025 @ 11:16:29

Would you leave the lights off when customers walk in?
Published: Fri, Jun 20 2025 @ 11:16:26

The hashtag#EU just dropped a preview of its 2025–26 Startup & Scaleup Strategy
Published: Fri, Jun 20 2025 @ 11:16:24

Are you still caught up in the hype of AI replacing employees?
Published: Wed, May 21 2025 @ 11:16:25