From Struggle to Success
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I’ve seen it countless times — a founder walks in with a big, beautiful idea. A platform. Open source. AI. No-code. Multimodal. Everything. For everyone.But when you ask, “Who exactly has the problem…
Most first-time founders imagine sales as a battlefield. You go out, chase prospects, pitch hard, “close the deal.” If you’re aggressive enough, you win. That’s the Hollywood version. In real life? S…
Simple. Brutal. True.Fear doesn’t vanish when you start a company. It doesn’t disappear after your first customer, your first profit, your first success. It doesn’t even leave after 25 years of build…
On the outside, every business looks simple. A product, a service, a market. Someone sells, someone buys, money changes hands.But if you look closer — really closer — almost every successful business…
Failure → Experience → SuccessWe love to imagine success as a straight line. You set a goal, execute, and arrive. Clean. Predictable. Safe. But reality looks more like the image above. Messy lines of…
Most founders don’t fail on product. They fail on themselves. Not because the code didn’t work. Not because the market was too small. Not even because competitors out-executed them. They fail because…
Scroll through X and it feels like every second person is launching a SaaS.Pitch decks, MRR screenshots, “Day 1 to $10k MRR” threads -> the whole feed is saturated with software startups.---And ye…
Every founder thinks they’re unique. They’re not.Almost every failure is the same recipe: • a product nobody wants • no working distribution • a funnel that doesn’t convert ---Stop calling it a “XYZ…
Insight:One of the most underrated keys to success (and well-being) is the ability to build routines.Not just habits, but structured recurring check-ins: weekly, monthly, quarterly.Without a routine,…
Pretend that you are a gardener.If all you care about is grabbing the fruits as quickly as possible, you’ll be tempted to strip the branches bare, ignoring the soil beneath. For a little while, you m…