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Where 120k founders read my weekly newsletter offering tactical insights to start, scale, and fund their startup. Real advice from 3x exited founder @jds_again
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Joined November 2022
If your a startup founder The best piece of advice I can give you if you're early stage is to take the default baseline of if you build it, no one gives a shit. Treating indifference as the baseline, no ones waiting, no ones watching. Not because you're not smart, not because
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As a StartUp Founder - Customer One is a really sacred and special moment no matter where you are in life. BRB. heading to the post office. #entrepreneur #booktok #startupfounder #startup #founder
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Starting a Startup | Build Something People Want - A Practical Guide for Founders to Win
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LAUNCH If you have to game your customers, you don’t have a business model you have a calendar trick. Trust compounds more than the extra 8% you’re hiding. And if you can’t make it work on 12 honest months, that’s not pricing power, that’s shitty unit economics.
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The Swift x Kelce news… Same impact as slack going down. See you all tomorrow.
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With the AI craze, the FOMO, the everyone else seems to be crushing it in AI except me - it’s all mostly true you should be AI first. BUT. The one thing that isn't changing is the foundation and the foundation is build a great product that solves a problem so painful people will
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You do not need to pay someone to raise money for your startup. If they ask for a retainer or a success fee or a due diligence fee upfront, they’re not helping — they’re feeding by on your FOMO. Real investors don’t need middlemen. Makes you look incompetent. They are predatory
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There’s only one golden rule to building a successful startup—it’s a universal truth: - Build a winning team. - Build something people want and will pay for. - Do it fast, keep it lean. That’s the whole playbook. Everything else? Just details. But here’s the thing: The
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There are two types of startup founders: those who make things happen, and those who wonder what happened. Which one are you going to be? via @StartUpScaleUp_
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Despite the predatory startup fundraising p*rn on your insta feed claiming you're funding ready & they can help. You likely aren't, can't & won't. So, let's pivot to what actually matters. What now? via @StartUpScaleUp_
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Despite the predatory fundraising p*rn on your insta feed claiming you're funding ready & they can help. You likely aren't, can't & won't.
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Startup founders. Be frugal. Not cheap. Every penny you don’t spend adds a moment more runway. Every penny should have a (potential) return associated to it - doesn’t mean don’t take big bold bets - just understand the consequences. your $$ earns 5% just sitting in the bank.
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StartUp Founders looking for PMF are never going to find it. At best, you'll catch a fleeting moment where everything aligns - right product, right problem, right time. Until it's not. via @StartUpScaleUp_
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Founders looking for PMF are never going to find it. At best, you'll catch a fleeting moment where everything aligns, until it doesn't.
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For #StartUpFounders - XXX-Led Growth. Product-Led, Sales-Led, Community-Led, or whatevs, can be deceptive. A growth motion without retention is like building sandcastles on the beach - epic, awesome, but gone by morning. via @StartUpScaleUp_
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StartUp Founders looking for PMF are never going to find it. At best, you'll catch a fleeting moment where everything aligns - right product, right problem, right time. Until it's not. Phantom Market Fit. via @StartUpScaleUp_
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Founders looking for PMF are never going to find it. At best, you'll catch a fleeting moment where everything aligns, until it doesn't.
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The magic #StartUp #Founder ingredient is ecosystem mapping. Accelerate customers, intelligence, features, roadmap, acquisition, retention & credibility... without a proportional increase in your sales & marketing dollars. via @StartUpScaleUp_
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Visionary founders die trying to educate the market. Intelligent founders understand its a choice whether to create or capture customers. This isn't about innovation; it's terrain management aka Blue Ocean vs Red Ocean. via @StartUpScaleUp_
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StartUp Founders? If your app crashes overnight, what’s YOUR move? Transparency with customers, or hope it slides under the radar? This isn't about your tech stack's resilience; it's a litmus test for your values via @startupscaleup_ newsletter https://t.co/wWAKmTlLOz
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The cornerstone of every great company lies in its leadership principles, etched in stone, defining its ethos, operations, and the very foundation of its culture and success. Growth demands an...
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StartUp Founders believe raising money is the next milestone - but it’s not. The next milestone is you, your ability to build, sell or do something with nothing. The investors are never coming. #susu0138 #startup #startups #founder #startupfounder #vctok #angelinvestor
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As a #StartUp #Founder, no matter the epicness of what you build, you're up against forces determined to see you fail. Every customer you win is someone else's loss. Fight like hell to cross someone else's moat. via @StartUpScaleUp_
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As a founder, never lose sight of what you're here to do. Strip everything back to the one critical feature your app must-execute flawlessly aka the job to be done. Then reverse-engineer the path to achieving it. via @StartUpScaleUp_
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