The hardest part of all of this isn't shipping code Or winning the deal Or raising capital It's getting really, really good at recruiting

Today, we helped a sales team rescue a “bad lead.” A vet clinic got flagged as low priority. But Openmart showed they were hiring two ops roles and opening a new location. They closed that same week. Turns out hiring signals say more than gut calls. Here is how you can save

last summer, i got a mansion with stanford friends; one year later: Human Behavior (YC + Seed ) contextinc ($11M seed) Extrian Security ($600k pre-seed) boys now at OpenAI, Thrive, LangChain, etc. surround yourself with hustlers. it compounds fast.

What’s amazing for how popular cryptocurrency is, they’re still almost 0 actual use cases. Prove me wrong.

Top issues you face as a startup, in chronology: - No great cofounder - No real PMF yet - Running out of money - Too feature poor - Can't close strong 1.0 mgmt team - Competition bigger / faster / strong - Can't close strong 2.0 mgmt team - No strong second product / vertical

going to play basketball with folks from my yc batch this afternoon around 4:00. hmu if you want to join—everyone’s a beginner. We scored around 20 points after about an hour last time, lmao,

You don’t need a PhD to be a great AI researcher. Even OpenAI’s Chief Research Officer doesn’t have a PhD.

Saw this when I first started Openmart—didn’t fully get it back then.

I’ve been noticing this and it’s not OK When you see it shout it down and unfollow and mute. It’s dehumanizing Protect Asian women

We have officially sent over 1 billion emails with Loops.so

We’ve spent the past two weeks doing QA on our first product line—head down and focused. Now, it’s much easier for you to search newly opened businesses, existing ones, or high-growth local business in seconds—and enrich owner contacts in minutes. Huge thanks to Chris Frantz

new type of spam

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