Fintech start-up junkie. Ex-@AvidXchange. Bootstrapping @barespend. Natural born hacker. My last name has single-handedly taken down a few million web sites.
Charlotte, NC
Joined April 2008
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Having joined 3 startups at seed stages and leaving prior to them exiting/going public, I always take solace in the fact that they'd not have succeeded had I not left
Microservices, a zero interest rate phenomenon.
"Moving our service to a monolith reduced our infrastructure cost by over 90%. It also increased our scaling capabilities." - Amazon Prime Video tech team
"Now the real-world results of all this theory are finally in, and it's clear that in practice, microservices pose perhaps the biggest siren song for needlessly complicating your system." world.hey.com/dhh/even-amazo…
😂🤣Brilliant stuff!
"If it's absolutely necessary, I will support building new housing to lower prices, just as soon as my own sale clears escrow. Once this snowbird leaves town, they can build a chocolate castle for all I care." - @TheDevinWallace
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Built a couple features today for customers that did not include any AI. And they still paid us cold hard cash.
HELP! Am I doing this right?
I'll take boring technology to build boring businesses all day every day.
There are two paths diverging:
1. People who feel like @Suhail.
2. A bunch of web2 folks that will keep building boring businesses that make billions of dollars and adopt any useful tech that emerges from the fomovortex that is #1.
Powered by "boring" playbook #boringcompany #bootstrapped #founder
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The future of building startups:
- MVP speed (1x per month)
- AI-accelerated
- Superniche is the new niche
- Community 1st, software 2nd
- No-code 1st, some code 2nd
- 10x more automated
- Global teams, localized products
- 95% dominated by solopreneurs and microentrepreneurs (teams less than 12)
- Pop-up digital experiences (apps that only work on certain times)
- Needs the marketing holy-trinity to hit escape velocity: 1. product/market fit, 2. content/market fit and 3. community/market fit
- Team is half robots 🤖, half humans 👨🦰 (cc @youneedarobot)
- Accelerated by "boring marketing" (cc @boringmarketer)
- Multiple revenue streams
- Design matters. The bar is high
- Partnered w/ creators (creators are the distribution)
- Feels like a game (levels, status, badges, in-app currency, challenges, collectibles/items)
- Purpose-driven moonshots: societal impact matters
- Productized agencies to generate cashflow (ex design agency @DispatchDesign)
- Product studios become the norm
- 99% of MVPs won't need VC
Azeeeeeez! (@ The Fillmore Charlotte - @fillmorenc for Aziz Ansari: Last Minute Tour in Charlotte, NC) swarmapp.com/c/bely6yeiDek
Be all three at the same time. You're guaranteed never to have a dull day.
Joel D'Souza retweeted
One of the biggest tax incentives encouraging investment in startups is at risk under a recent Democrat tax proposal.
This incentive, the Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) exemption, is critical to the angel investing ecosystem has enabled startups in America to flourish
If I can find a way to pay that power bill now, it might just help @DukeEnergy figure this out.
Blunt with Costas (@ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in New York, NY) swarmapp.com/c/brrWXwpB2oK
Just slammin whiskeys by the Brooklyn bridge ... no big deal (@ Malibu Farm in New York, NY) swarmapp.com/c/kvtjgiiXtZt
It's sad that I wasn't sure he was joking until I got to this question.
