121 Business Ideas You Can Copy and Brainstorm
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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:
...
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...
Anthony Vallett: Put The CEO's Phone Number On Receipts
Most restaurants hide behind fake feedback loops: cold surveys, ignored inboxes, and QR codes nobody scans. In this clip, the...
I have a friend with a $50M stock portfolio.
I’m jealous of him. We’ve had roughly the same time horizon. He put his energy into picking stocks, I put mine into AppSumo and indexing on the side. His returns have absolutely crushed mine. Not even close.
And every time we talk about it, the same thing happens. I get this itch. Maybe I should make some trades. Maybe I should pick a few names and try to catch up. Nothing crazy, just some moves to juice my returns.
Then I actually asked him how he does it.
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Stop Chasing Other People's Alpha
You’re not losing because you’re dumb. You’re losing because you’re playing someone else’s game on their home court. When you...
Mine PubMed For Billion-Dollar Drug Ideas
That blue PubMed screen in the image looks boring on purpose. It’s a government website, not a pitch deck. But...
Michael Seibel: Launch a Crappy MVP in 30 Days
If your MVP isn’t a little embarrassing, you’re moving too slow. The Instagram reel shows Michael Seibel sitting at a...
Sam ParrMyFirstMillion $5,000 Clip Competition
in 2021 Sam Parr and Shaan Puri of the MyFirstMillion podcast wanted to hop on the new trend of short...
Launch a Business With Just Your Phone
Picture your local Walmart selling a “Financial Freedom Starter Pack” in the electronics aisle: it’s literally just a cheap smartphone...
Car Brand Pyramid: Spot Market Gaps
This “World’s 235 car brands positioning” pyramid is a cheat-sheet for spotting money on the table. It stacks brands from...
Marc Andreessen: Bet Big, Own Everything, Don't Fear AI
If you’re a founder or investor staring down the AI wave, this post is your pep talk and battle plan....
Tier Your Speaking Fees By Location
If you speak for a living and still quote one flat fee, you’re leaving money and sanity on the table....
Quit Choosing Your Own Invisible Cage
Look at that little bird in the drawing: round, grumpy, and standing in a cage with huge gaps between the...
Spot Rising Markets Before Competitors Do
To spot rising markets, you don’t need a PhD in economics—you need a time machine made of charts. This visual...
Benchmark: How Fast Brands Earn $1M
This benchmark chart shows how long it takes 21 monster brands to rack up $1,000,000 in sales. Amazon blinks and...
Pick The Lever Decisions, Ignore The Noise
Those three slides look like simple screenshots, but they’re a mini-MBA in decision making. You see a decade of experiments,...