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So far I’m 3/3 on founder led sales series A startups with the ole’ “We’ll do annual but I’ll bill you monthly and just email me if you need to cancel bro but I can’t put it in the contract cause you know my investors…” Also 1/1 on founders keeping their word so far on the

met a series A founder, tier 1 lead — fast follower — talked to 50 “happy” users of a competitor — then built quietly for ~14 months — first users/revenue at 1.5yrs now 2.5 yrs in closing in on competitor’s revenue despite a ~$2M ARR head start — Lesson: Use your

what is the moat for meeting summarizer startups? cause I rebuilt one in 6 hrs that is probably at least 75% as good as what I need it to be out of the box haven’t even tweaked the prompts yet

Back in 2013, when I was just learning how to code, I had an idea: A tool that could scan your email inbox, find all your paid subscriptions, and show them in a single dashboard with links to unsubscribe. I threw up a quick landing page, added a PayPal button and posted it on

imagine your customers are your team and you’re just building them internal tools 🤔

the fastest way to lose a sale is to ask a startup their EIN during checkout

Me: you did good today Claude. rest well, tomorrow again we ride. Claude: Thanks, Glenn—I appreciate that. Get a good rest yourself, and I’ll be ready to dive back in whenever you are tomorrow. Me: got damnit Claude what did I say about em dashes

YC led to a lot including our first: - customer - employee - investor - believer worth the 7% and more

your mental cache when it comes to coding is inadequate when using AI coding tools so, unless you accept the loss of control/context and the compounding defamiliarization with your codebase, you're going to have a bad time vibe coders/juniors have an easy time with this

dropping an f bomb mid demo increases close rate by 25% minimum I have data on this

Imagine YC Demo Day as NFL Draft Day • Founder combine interviews • 5-min clock per pick • Order: lowest IRR funds first • Fixed market cap space per fund. ~100m to allocate • Trades: swap later picks + cap to move up • All in on hot startups or value spread bets •

Idk guys what do you think?

convinced soma/south beach is a bad place to have an office there is no food nearby