Startups

Founding and running companies: products, customers, sales, pricing, fundraising

A topic in the tpot Community Archive, drawn from 4,270 posts.

Trusted voices in Startups

Ordered by the trust Startups's own network concentrates on each poster, most first.

  1. visakanv — trusted by 153 posters here
  2. patio11 — trusted by 92 posters here
  3. eshear — trusted by 113 posters here
  4. __drewface — trusted by 94 posters here
  5. DanielleFong — trusted by 79 posters here
  6. DefenderOfBasic — trusted by 71 posters here
  7. RichDecibels — trusted by 62 posters here
  8. nosilverv — trusted by 76 posters here
  9. eigenrobot — trusted by 56 posters here
  10. TylerAlterman — trusted by 63 posters here
  11. m_ashcroft — trusted by 50 posters here
  12. the_wilderless — trusted by 48 posters here

Top posts in Startups

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  1. Today I got a call inviting me to consider a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to become the interim CEO of @OpenAI. After consulting with my family and reflecting on it for just a few hours, I… (eshear) — 60 likes
  2. I am deeply pleased by this result, after ~72 very intense hours of work. Coming into OpenAI, I wasn’t sure what the right path would be. This was the pathway that maximized safety alongside doing… (eshear) — 45 likes
  3. a secret sneak peek inside Google HQ https://t.co/kq6KQXFUzx (visakanv) — 43 likes
  4. it's time to double down. this corner of twitter is special I want to invest in projects and individuals in our community starting now first grant is in the works to @the_wilderless (more details to… (_brentbaum) — 36 likes
  5. “I didn’t expect to meet another YC founder here” https://t.co/05PeTuEhvN (visakanv) — 32 likes
  6. update on my first ever bootcamp cohort -- one of my students just raised $400k for their startup!!! holy crap i'm so proud (__drewface) — 31 likes
  7. As a (very small) investor in S*bSt**k maybe I should be rooting for this change. It’s the first idea I’ve seen that’s so bad that it could actually destroy Twitter. Incredible stuff. Reminds me of… (eshear) — 30 likes
  8. I am once again reminded that one of the great psychic divides is between people who’ve made/sold stuff in the open marketplace, and people who haven’t (visakanv) — 29 likes
  9. to say I'm energized to be in founder mode again vastly underplays what's going on here. to be building on everything I learned (am learning) about inner work in my year long sabbatical is a… (_brentbaum) — 28 likes
  10. A thing my ex-boss got me to meditate on (not literally, but I think about it a lot) is that product-market fit heals and forgives almost everything. The highest order bit is almost the only thing… (visakanv) — 27 likes
  11. 🚨 i'm launching an ambitious new project: a research collective that gets you paid for your knowledge work i know a ton of underemployed people with massive brains and hearts, so i'm forming a… (puheenix) — 27 likes
  12. There's nothing stopping us from putting together an LLC, pitching in a few grand each, buying a beautiful historic building with a view and turning it into a retreat center. We've got literally… (vividvoid) — 26 likes
  13. when you make a fire, it’s not the fire that determines where the smoke goes. it’s the wind that does that. if you want a smoke signal to travel some particular way, you need to understand the wind,… (visakanv) — 26 likes
  14. maybe the next phase of the twitter game is we start businesses together (QiaochuYuan) — 25 likes
  15. there’s only like 3 main pieces 1. iterate as cheaply and prolifically as possible until you get to product/market fit, cultivating taste in the process 2. solve for distribution 3. git gud at… (visakanv) — 25 likes
  16. A lesson on how people get value from things: I kept a FREE imaginal exercise online for a year. I posted it several times, talked about it often. No one did it. I repackaged the same exercise, put… (the_wilderless) — 25 likes
  17. 🧺🍈TPOT Open Air Market 🍈🧺 ----- August 2024 ----- Hawk your wares in the replies - podcasts, startups, shows, services, etc. Or holler if you're looking for something in the scene:… (vividvoid) — 25 likes
  18. let's remember 6 months ago when "tpot needs to do real things" was a real meme fast forward... kickstarters are launched, many have new coaching businesses, others big orgs of mutuals doing huge… (_brentbaum) — 24 likes
  19. if I did a startup I’d probably wanna do something thats like a strongly opinionated hypercard system, which would initially only appeal to nerds who enjoy Twitter thread info architecture n wish it… (visakanv) — 23 likes
  20. god help us all i'm now being trusted to help tweet from the main @ManifoldMarkets account https://t.co/UUZau0VBEj (goblinodds) — 23 likes
  21. joe rogan: so i took the drug that makes you quit doing startups ben shapiro: you took the what? joe: the drug that makes you quit doing startups ben: the drug that makes you quit doing startups?… (QiaochuYuan) — 23 likes
  22. THE USER EXPERIENCE WILL BE DEGRADED UNTIL METRICS IMPROVE (visakanv) — 22 likes
  23. Do what you love, but solve for distribution. (visakanv) — 22 likes
  24. view counts before and after you find product-market fit (ig: the_groove_engineer) https://t.co/eo1sAzFN2M (visakanv) — 22 likes
  25. if you're insanely talented at something but nobody gets it, it's worth paying someone who's insanely talented at marketing/comms to translate, frame, package that talent into something that people… (visakanv) — 22 likes
  26. do TPOT micro-scale ($5k-$15k) projects get funded?i sketched out my thoughts. expected to end up in camp F but ended up updating towards a combination of A and D. i'm very unsure tho. what is going… (michaelcurzi) — 22 likes
  27. If you’re struggling to get a project off the ground, you may be trying to “start from scratch.” I ~never see successful things start from scratch. They ~always grow out of some existing social… (TylerAlterman) — 22 likes
  28. fwiw i think there's a version of this in every single industry. like you wanna do real journalism so you join news media? scale the fucking pageviews. you wanna do real science so you join… (visakanv) — 22 likes
  29. onlyfans creators are paying meme aggregation accounts to dunk on their intentionally cringe content. the economics seems to works out really well for everyone involved. saw a creator say ~$200 per… (visakanv) — 21 likes
  30. I just realised that today is the three year anniversary of the launch of my little course! Some stats: - 1328 students - $269,846.77 total revenue - c. $7500/month average revenue I don't have… (m_ashcroft) — 21 likes
  31. march: let's start a company! journaling + ifs with gpt april: people like the journal! but i don't want to use it. and it's not differentiated. may: let's pivot to focus on building a great ifs… (_brentbaum) — 21 likes
  32. 🌺🥭TPOT Open Air Market 🥥🪻 ----- March 2024 ----- Hawk your wares in the replies - podcasts, startups, shows, services, etc. Or holler if you're looking for something in the scene: collaborators,… (vividvoid) — 21 likes
  33. Start-up that takes your blood out, centrifuges it, and pumps it back in without the heavy metals and plastics Who is building this https://t.co/q6j0IklKYq (PrinceVogel) — 21 likes
  34. we can just build something ourselves, and compete with our potential employers. in almost every other industry employers compete for top talent, but only between each other because they provide the… (xsphi) — 21 likes
  35. here's where my inquiry led me when i had to figure out how to get paying customers notice the tell here, they said "I tried everything". its kind of a red flag. serious practitioners know precisely… (visakanv) — 20 likes
  36. limiting this to people I follow for starters, so i can make a google docs for future reference (will do non-restricted round afterwards): friends, what are you working on that I can promote for… (visakanv) — 19 likes
  37. Today it is my pleasure to reveal a project I've been working on for months - or years, or decades, depending how you measure.This is @hallsongmedia. Hallsong makes media for… (michaelcurzi) — 19 likes
  38. Google is cool and all, but what Red Bull does with all their extra cash flow— all the wild, wacky extreme sports things no humans would have any business doing otherwise — that is a public service (AskYatharth) — 19 likes
  39. It is extremely important to give out-of-distribution creatives NO STRINGS ATTACHED funding. The pressure to conform to external criteria and be legible in order to secure or retain funding has a… (repligate) — 19 likes
  40. I wish I could have exposure to all TPOT companies at one. Like I wanna invest in Jhourney and in Mentava and in whatever levelsio touches and in the Community Archive and in Silvia's art career and… (nosilverv) — 19 likes
  41. Surprising result from my first year at YC: The most illuminating question about a startup idea in the beginning is not “what are you building?” but rather “who is it for?” (eshear) — 18 likes
  42. postrat funding is a skill issue and I'm gonna solve it (at least for myself) (exgenesis) — 18 likes
  43. my proposal is out and I'm fundraisingI love this picture https://t.co/6QzLpD8Cs8 (exgenesis) — 18 likes
  44. everybody has the right to charge whatever they want for whatever services they want to provide. if you are a completely inexperienced child and you want to charge $1,000/hr for advice on how to… (visakanv) — 17 likes
  45. whenever you want to understand someone’s success, ask how they solved for distribution. I’ll dig in and investigate in real time, watch https://t.co/FUokOObA4M (visakanv) — 17 likes
  46. embodying king energy in company building means making tough decisions and having hard conversations. most decisions you make won’t have anywhere near 100% certainty. choosing, delivering bad news,… (_brentbaum) — 17 likes
  47. i keep coming across people running courses/communities that cost more per month than I was planning on charging per year, and I'm wondering if I need to have more confidence in myself or sth (the_wilderless) — 17 likes
  48. kindergarten for adults as a viable business? (exgenesis) — 17 likes
  49. one thing i've noticed repeatedly is that many small biz owners (n=30?) who used to have their own websites generally stopped updating them around 2017-ish, and the only thing that's they're really… (visakanv) — 17 likes
  50. tried ayahuasca, and got psychically one-shotted by mind flayer demons residing in the depths of my soul here what that taught me about B2B SaaS,,, 🧵 (1/420) (DanielleFong) — 17 likes

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