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Steve Jobs Simple Product Matrix
Most businesses try to grow by adding more: more products, more features, more campaigns. The image above shows the opposite...
Own or Be Owned Book: Cut the Menu: Trim Your Product Line
Founders love adding new offers like a bored chef adding more pages to the menu. The image above shows a...
Feed Your Outliers, Not Averages
Most businesses obsess over making the average customer, employee, or product a tiny bit better. The sketch you’re looking at...
If you think you’re too old to start... you’re wrong.
Business failure rates:
30 year old owner: 11.1%
45 year old owner: 9.6%
60 year old owner: 8.2%
Start Later, Fail Less as a Founder
Everyone worships the 22‑year-old hoodie founder, but the numbers say your crow’s feet are actually a competitive advantage. As you...
Unicorn Founders Now Average Age 40
If you still think unicorn founders are hoodie-wearing 22‑year‑olds fresh out of a dorm room, this chart should rattle your...
Check Your Business Against 10 AI Moats
AI nuked a lot of traditional advantages: fancy branding, clever copy, even solid code. But it didn’t kill moats, it...
Back Non-Consensus Big Ideas For Massive Wins
Most people chase ideas everyone already agrees on, then wonder why the upside feels capped. Marc Andreessen’s 2x2 matrix in...
Get a Must-Read Newsletter Without Hiring Staff
Most companies want a must-read newsletter, but not the headache of hiring writers, editors, and ops people. This Chief Newsletter...
Pick the Right Ladder to Build Wealth
Wealth isn’t one ladder, it’s four different ladders standing right next to each other. The image shows exactly why some...
Install the CEO Scorecard in 5 Simple Steps
Most founders run their company off vibes, Slack pings, and a brain full of half-remembered numbers. A CEO scorecard rips...
3 things I notice in CEOs who scale past $10M:
1. They hire for culture > skill
I once had to let go of our best designer at AppSumo. Flawless work but everything took 4x longer than it should. She couldn’t align with our "ship fast" culture. Hire a ship dirty designer and speed of learning went up. CVR closely followed.
2. They’re ruthless with their time
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Ayman Al-AbdullahHire for Culture, Protect Your Time, Delegate
Most founders get stuck between hustle mode and actual CEO mode. The business grows, but their calendar, stress, and decision-making...
Own the parking lot.
I saw a guy outside the biggest, nicest house in my neighborhood, so I said hi and asked what he does for a living. Turned out to be a good business lesson.
He told me he used to own a bunch of restaurants in Austin. Then he said, almost like it was boring, that he never really made money on the restaurants. He made his money on the parking lots.
What? Excuse me!
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Noah KaganBuy the Parking Lot, Not the Restaurant
Most people hustle to own the flashy restaurant. Smart people quietly buy the boring parking lot. One gets press, stress,...
Stop Cutting Jobs. Use AI To Upskill Staff
AI doesn’t have to be a headcount chainsaw. Used right, it becomes a promotion machine. The IKEA case in the...
Sam ParrEntrepreneurship as Escape: The Immigrant Hustle
The cover of “The Warmth of Other Suns” looks like a simple old photograph, but it’s really a sales page...
Business Card Hack That Actually Gets Used
Most business cards die a lonely death in someone’s junk drawer. This one got held up on the jumbotron at...
Don't Let Your Team Cap Your Vision
Most founders secretly assume their team can grow into their vision. The image above slaps you with a different reality:...
It's not sexy to say, but most of AI transformation has nothing to do with AI.
There are 10 steps in the sequence of making an internal process or external product AI-native.
Only 1 step is AI, and ironically, the other 9 steps are the far harder part.
Step 1: Identify the problem
- find the manual process worth automating. turn your brain off autopilot & turn on your "suck meter". ...
Alex LiebermanDo These 9 Non-AI Steps First
Everyone wants the magical AI button. But if you skip the boring groundwork, that button does nothing. These 9 non-AI...
Bezos had the 2-pizza rule:
Never have a meeting that can’t be fed by 2 pizzas
I never understood this rule because I could eat a pizza by myself
I have the 2-car rule:
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Ayman Al-AbdullahTwo-Car Test: The Founder vs CEO Line
Everyone loves the romantic “founder stage” of a company: small team, fast decisions, zero meetings about meetings. But there’s a...
Sam ParrTurning a Land Rover Snub Into $2B
When Land Rover rejected his dealership application, most people would’ve sulked and moved on. Instead, he turned the snub into...
Test Your Market, Follow Demand Signals
Most founders try to guess their perfect market on Day 1. The @a16z carousel shows something smarter: even giants like...
Frugality Wins: Craigslist's Startup Cost Secrets
That slightly shabby beige house with the tiny craigslist.org sign out front? That’s a hundreds-of-millions-a-year business hiding in plain sight....
Buy a Flippa Business, Create Viral Buzz
Most people try to go viral by dancing on TikTok. Noah Kagan did it by buying a real, cash‑flowing business...
Stop Quitting: The 5-Year Startup Playbook
Most founders secretly think they’re failing because they aren’t a unicorn by month twelve. This post smacks that fantasy in...
Majors That Produce Unicorn Founders
Everyone thinks every unicorn founder was a dropout hacker in a hoodie. The chart in this Instagram post blows that...