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Love the Fight: How Startup Founders Turn Chaos Into Leverage
Startup success requires more than grit. Learn how Amor Fati and loving the fight help founders turn chaos, setbacks, and external hits into leverage and momentum.
Startup Nerves: Why Texting Your Network Beats Cold Outreach
Most founders don’t have a pipeline problem — they have a nerve problem. Learn why texting your contacts beats cold outreach and unlocks hidden growth.
Startup Founder Quit Decision: How to Know When to Walk Away
Should you quit your startup? This guide breaks down how founders decide whether to keep going or shut down, balancing resilience with reality.
No One Cares. Hurry Up: Startup Founder Decisiveness and Momentum
Startup founders succeed by deciding fast, shipping fast, and learning fast. Stop overthinking, avoid random work, and build momentum—because no one cares, hurry up.
Build the Toy: Why Weird Ideas Keep Founders Dangerous
This isn’t a ‘build faster’ memo—it’s permission to build weird things. Toys surface truth, keep founders sharp, and often become the roadmap.
Startup Depth and the Homicide Detective Test: Why Problem Mastery Wins
Great founders pass the homicide detective test. They don’t break under tough questions because their depth in the problem is undeniable.
Early Days of a Startup: Embracing the Brutal, Embarrassing Reality
The unfiltered truth about the early days of a startup — why they're supposed to be brutal, embarrassing, and how that struggle shapes real founders.
Dark Triad Founder Traits: The Startup Edge No One Talks About
Startup success often stems from controversial traits. This newsletter explores how narcissism, Machiavellian strategy, and decisive psychopathy shape high-performing founders.
Startup Manifesto: Why Quiet Traction Beats Loud Vision
Forget shouting your startup manifesto. Tangible traction and solving real problems is a founder's true advantage — not loud vision decks.
P95 Disaster Line
P95 is your startup product's disaster line — the worst 5% of user experience that quietly kills growth, retention, and CAC. Here's how to find it and fix it.
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