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If you are a marketplace founder, this should be read whenever available. Also, Everything Marketplaces (EM) is the Harvard + Stanford + South Harmon Institute of Technology of education for marketplace players. Continuing education matters!

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The businesses we partner with have exceptional operators who consistently solve real problems. They have a great chance to win, every day. Being a founder of a tech start up is not the "pro-level". It's just a different game, in a pile of games, that has a lot more losers.

Threaddin’ the gnar.

I hope I build my family as well as I seek to build my business. My wife and I cherish moments like this. Her work in early child development has opened my heart to the unspoken challenges of parenting. Congrats to this family - thanks for sharing such encouragement and wisdom.

DadChef Smoked a couple of birds. One garlic-herb dry rub. Another with a BBQ rub. And, yeah, we had a baby 3 days ago.

Speed to estimate completed This is my solo mission right now I dream of a world Customer calls in the morning We walk the job that day We deliver a quote that day The complexity of the job is the variable But assuming that it is a straightforward job that we do all

I hate when pre-seed and seed-stage founders trick themselves into thinking that they’re doing real work. Lots of the “progress” I see in investor updates are what I’ll call “fake work.”

Great take. You are pre-product until you are post-revenue. If they won’t pay for it, you are still a 501c3.

I feel like he is on to something.

Your value proposition is the most important aspect of your early-stage SaaS GTM Machine. Do you have a good one? Here's how you stress test it: My company _____<name>_______ creates software for ______<ICP>__________ that helps them _______________________________. If you can

Some of those early sales calls... 🎪 (1) Brought my 8-week-old to a stranger's house (+4x). (2) Drove out to a warehouse in Mesquite for a client. He began the conversation by placing his firearm on the table and proceeded to eat tacos in front of me for 12 minutes without

You are pre-product until you are post-revenue. If you develop a product or service and you can't get a single stakeholder to pay $1 for that offering, you aren't a start-up. You are a hopeful 501c3 with a donations problem.

Looking for a great WebFlow developer with experience in site performance and conversion optimization. Designs are complete - just need to build! Who should I be chatting with?

Read this. It is a phenomenal case study in investment decisions for complex marketplaces. I could not have enjoyed this anymore if I tried.

Back on Twitter and it seems like that OpenAI thing was kind of a big deal.

Worth a shot. And just love the brand.

“The speed of innovation happening in AI is moving at a pace I've never witnessed in my entire career" - Kyle, 22, 8 months experience at Deloitte