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Naval Ravikant is one of the smartest entrepreneurs alive.
He was an early investor in Uber, Twitter, Notion and a dozen other killer companies.
He credits 10 rules for his success.
Here’re his ideas on building wealth while being happy:
I started my first venture at 6
We were selling Comix, which was sent to the trash due to typographical failure.
We earned $33 in a day.
That enterprise taught me more about management, sales, and marketing than any education I’d undergone before.
Hands-on experience and mistakes are the best teachers.
3 tips to gradually improve your business:
1. Find popular products in the niche. Become a customer. Learn how they do business
2. Talk to your best clients to learn what they love and, more importantly, what they dislike in your product
3. Learn from leaving customers the reason they left, give them a bonus for truthful and straight feedback
Business is a process.
7 reasons startups fail
They:
❶ Don't listen
➋ Don't use data
➌ Build for everyone
➍ Don't solve a problem
➎ Pick the wrong market
➏ Forget to focus on marketing
➐ Expect results in 3 months, not 3 years
They market to much but build too little.
3 Stages of product development
Stage 1: Find the problem
• Ask
• Study
• Research
Stage 2: Build an MVP
• Use AI to build a prototype
• Use free tools
• Do it yourself
Stage 3: Get feedback & improve
• Launch
• Get feedback
• Make a team & Relaunch
• The goal is not to read a book, it is to become a reader
• The goal is not to run a marathon, it is to become a runner
• The goal is not to learn an instrument, it is to become a musician
Improvements are only temporary until they become part of who you are
School:
- "If I don't add 200 more words, I won't get an A."
Reality:
- "I have to cut 200 words, or no one will read this."
3 habits that will change your business (that 98% of people don't do):
1. Talk to your customers regularly. Learn what to enhance
2. Provide better experience, and improve constantly.
3. Trust your team. Delegate. Inspire.
If you want different results, take different action
I ran an 🦞 OpenClaw hackathon in Barcelona — and realized something surprising.
Almost nobody knows how to set it up properly.
Everyone wants the advanced stuff. 25 agents. SharedMemory. A board of directors analyzing the market while you sleep.
But the foundation wasn't there. Installation. Telegram connection. AI coding assistant inside the system.
So I put everything together — a step-by-step email series from zero to a working AI infrastructure:
🦞 Install OpenClaw on Mac Mini or a €4/month server + Telegram
🤖 Claude Code / Codex / Gemini CLI — AI reads your files and configures the system for you
🧠 SharedMemory — agents never lose context between sessions
🏛️ Board of Directors — 5 AI personas, strategic briefing in your Telegram every morning
🏆 Bonus emails — my current setup, 25 agents, which LLMs actually save money
Like, Comment GUIDE below — I'll send the first guide to your DM (Must be following). Free.
Notion: growwithserge.notion.site/Op…
Want the rest of the series — SharedMemory, Board of Directors, and my personal 25-agent setup? Subscribe to the free email series:
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One email at a time. All signal, no fluff.
People will spend their life dreaming about the perfect life, instead of spending a few years creating it.
My first startup was a disaster.
I have chosen the wrong solution. Rented space in the wrong place. Did awful marketing.
But I didn’t stop - and neither should you.
It takes time to find your path & craft your destiny.
Have faith in the process. Persistence pays off.
The main rule for those creating anything worthwhile is: It will take significantly longer than you think.
Your current life is a result of your past actions and decisions.
To live a new life, new actions and decisions are necessary.
When I was at the hospital with my son after heart surgery, I saw many other kids fighting for their life.
It really changed the way I view the world.
Life's too short to waste it . You have a gift, and you should embrace the difficulties of life
Enjoy the journey.