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Elon Musk is in the news again for his $55bn pay package request and subsequent rejection from a Delaware court decision. Musk’s request is juxtaposed with union strikes for minimum wage in auto manufacturing. This article explores how AI might serve as a tool to reduce the gap between worker and executive pay.
Now is an excellent time to be an entrepreneur. This post outlines some of the best opportunities right now.
Few virtues are more celebrated in startups than perseverance and grit. However, what’s the opportunity cost of perseverance? The key is knowing when to walk away, chalk it up as a learning, and move on to the next opportunity. This article really runs that point home.
These marketing quick wins are practical, low-effort tactics that deliver tangible results in a surprisingly short time frame. Whether you’re a large company with a functioning marketing team or a small startup without one, all of these are useful.
If you work in enterprise, you’ll likely be very familiar with ServiceNow. It's growing at 25% YoY despite being at $10m ARR. That’s impressive – here’s how they’re doing it.
If your startup is selling into multiple markets, you have to offer a local experience to your website visitors. Simple things like showing regional logos, regional case studies, and automatic language matching help to create the feeling that the site experience was truly designed for them, which in turn helps with engagement and conversion. This teardown of what Stripe does well and what needs improving is an excellent window into this thinking.
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This article, written from the point of view of an investor, helps to bring a little context to the layers of value within AI right now. It breaks them down into the infrastructure layer, like cloud providers and chip makers; modeling and core, like OpenAI and Anthropic; and AI-enhanced products.
AI will fundamentally change how we produce and consume art and ultimately the type of art we create. This article explores this point in more depth and highlights the companies driving the change.
Your perspective on money often reflects the psychological wounds from your life experiences. Whether you’re a broke founder just getting by whilst you hustle away or you’ve exited a few companies, this article provides several lenses to look at money through – useful if your goal is to go from that broke founder to the not-so-broke founder.
2023 was a hard year for folks in their 20s and 30s. Something is off for these people. What startup opportunities exist to help them?
Just know the product intimately. Knowing the problem well isn’t enough, you need to know how the product solves it.
The customer should be the central focus of any startup, with the teams closest to them (sales, solutions, and customer success) playing crucial roles. Leveraging these teams' unique understanding of customer needs and how the product can fulfill them is often an untapped value.