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I have 12 failed businesses.
Audiobooktopia. Podman. WP Mechanic. P2P Lending News. And more.
People see MarketBeat and assume I have the golden touch.
What they don't see is the decade of failed experiments that preceded it.
Everyone sees MarketBeat and assumes it was a straight shot up and to the right. In reality, it was paved...
One of the best VCs of all time just wrote that this is the most important principles when building a successful career slash company...
"Of all the tools available for growth, an engaged peer network might be the most powerful and beneficial.
It's one of the most under-discussed elements in personal and professional development."
That investor is Bill Gurley. He wrote that in his book Runnin Down a Dream.
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Most founders obsess over product, funding, and hires, then treat their peer network like a side quest. The people you...
I scraped the Hampton Slack for book recs
1,000+ founders, 18 months of data.
Here's what people who’ve built companies are reading:
Psychology of Money - Housel
Die With Zero - Perkins...
Scrape 18 months of a private founder community and you do not get fluffy airport books. You get what 1,000...
Turns out HubSpot isn't dead. 💀
I gave Claude Code 30 days of AppSumo software costs ($100,000) total.
Asked it to analyze cost, effort, maintenance of replicating all the software we are using.
It found ~$500 / month in costs but many of the "dead" SaaS products it did not recommend changing.
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On paper, rebuilding HubSpot in-house sounds sexy: full control, no license fees, your logo on everything. In reality, it’s like...