Over the years, I have tried to share learnings from my startups and seed investing. Decided to combine my startup tweets+tweetstorms into a tweethurricane. Here are my learnings + advice, from pitching investors to getting through the journey:.

5: The trap of weak product market fit

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4: Company Culture spreads from the founders' personality

3: Big ideas take longer

2: You can't copy and paste

Here are some clips from my recent First Round In Depth podcast. 1: Why you shouldn't focus on competition. 🧵

RT @tomerlondon: Back in 2016, @kevinbusque came into our small green conference room on 2nd Street and drew a vision on the whiteboard: fu….

"Get out of the building" isn't just startup advice. It's essential for defense tech founders. @iantien learned this building Mattermost into a platform that serves government and defense organizations worldwide. His advice for defense tech startups cuts through the Silicon

RT @aiyogamasters: Mercury Techno Song.@mercury

Congrats to Aalo. One step closer to bringing mass scale small nuclear reactors to life. (Disclaimer: proud+small seed investor).

RT @elamadej: i've been living in this split reality of knowing i should help increase the odds of a happy human/ai future but not knowing….

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AI native companies hire more people than companies who haven't adopted AI. AI (at least for now) not taking jobs. That and other learnings from our survey of startups in 🧵

"When there's so much demand in the market, you can sell the product and then forget about the customer and hope they implement it themselves.". Arvind Jain pointed out this trap that many hot AI companies fall into. In hot markets, it's tempting to focus purely on new sales

RT @firstround: Mercury co-founder and CEO @immad on the dangers of copy-and-pasting startup advice to your own company .

Topher Haddad sold out satellite capacity years before having a product to deliver. When Albedo was still developing their first satellite, they created artificial scarcity. With just one satellite planned, they had finite imaging capacity over specific regions. The value.

The best startup advice often goes against what founders expect to hear. As Hiten Shah perfectly articulates, the real work isn't finding the "right" market—it's understanding yourself as a founder. Hiten's framework is brilliant: "How do I discover a problem worth solving for

RT @pitdesi: My wife has spent >1 hr with Chase sending ME a wire. They keep saying it seems like fraud and have asked her (3x) how long sh….

"You can now deepfake anybody doing anything basically for free. That's the world we live in today.". Steve Huffman hit on something crucial during our conversation - the massive shift in how users think about privacy and verification. Just a year ago, people were concerned about

RT @rajatsuri: Reddit stock soared more than 15% this morning after the platform reported Q2 revenue that surpassed Wall Street's expectati….

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