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I failed for 3+ years trying to do a tech startup. The one that finally worked was an education business (design bootcamp). We later sold that business to WeWork for 7 figures. Even if you can't do, you can still teach.

These guys are basically promising to grow our SaaS by $360k ARR in 90 days or we don't pay. Anyone have a competing offer? I don't really believe in things that are too good to be true, but open to changing my mind.

5 years ago, I shared $5 pizzas with my roommate in a tiny room. Today I run a company that has generated $300M+ for clients and travel the world. (Here are 6 of my best lessons):

Exodus happening at OpenAI. Wonder what's going on. CTO also left.

I am 33. After 10+ years of building startups, generating millions in revenue, 2 exits and helping hundreds of startups make $340M+ combined. Here are 9 hard-earned lessons about building and growing a business:

I just watched a video that was mind blowing. Making this one small adjustment in life can change your entire trajectory. Here’s the concept: In order to win, you need to have wins. In Winners keep winning. Losers keep losing. It’s a vicious cycle. That’s nature. There was a study where scientists they made two mice fight each other. They rigged the first match, and the mouse that won the fight continued on to keep winning all the fights thereafter. Another example is Mr Beast. Not a lot of people know that his first-ever video actually went viral. That sole event might have been all the difference in making him the biggest YouTuber in the world. Craving that vitality again, he wouldn’t stop hunting for it until he could repeat it over and over. I’ve realized personally as well how much lacking that winning mentality has affected my output during periods of trough and sorrow. Being an entrepreneur, there’s so many days where it feels hopeless and redundant. It feels like you’re just going in circles and wasting time and energy. Most of the time, the day to day feels mundane and you question if what you’re doing is worth it. Looking back on my lowest periods, I realize I was mentally in the opposite place of where I should have been. I needed to switch gears and have a winning mentality. If you’re in a slump, all you can feel is down in the dumps. It’s so important you escape self pity and doubt, and get out of this rut as soon as possible. But how? Not everyone can be an outright winner. The key is to trick your brain into defining what is a win. Start with the small wins. Get those dopamine hits. Get out of bed today? That’s a win. Get 2 hours of work done today? Thats a win. Build it up slowly, but don’t ever regress to the pits of sorrow. Look at where you are right now relative to how far you’ve come.

Most SaaS businesses struggle with churn. Here's how we reduced our churn rate to 2.9%: The reason why you struggle with churn is because your users don't see immediate results. They don’t see value upfront or feel locked into a pricing structure. This lack of flexibility can make potential customers hesitant to commit, slowing down growth for both the business and your customers. Imagine losing customers who would have stayed if they simply had room to grow within your pricing tiers. Or worse…Missing out on startups that have incredible scaling potential simply because your pricing felt like too big of a risk to them. One of the most effective strategies we’ve implemented to offset churn is expansion revenue. Here’s how we do it: - Tiered pricing: Customers start small (free trial) and scale up as they grow. - Auto-upgrades: Plans adjust automatically on a prorated basis, so there’s no heavy upfront investment. - Month-to-month contracts: Flexibility reduces risk, encouraging prospects to test our solution, and quickly see ROI. This approach creates a win-win. Customers get to scale at their own pace, and as they grow, so do we. Today? Our churn rate is at 2.9%. If churn is holding back your SaaS growth, it’s time to rethink your pricing and growth strategy. Expansion revenue isn’t just a strategy, it’s a partnership mindset.

I'm building a new SaaS business from scratch and this is how I'm starting my outreach, cold on LinkedIn. First day results: - 115 connection requests sent - 24 accepted invite (20%) - 24 conversations initiated -- see screenshot of my message asking for feedback - 13 replied back -- no negatives, so counting that as a win (54%) - Other engagements: 1 booked call, 3 really in-depth convos or insightful feedback, 4 website signups Total 13 engagements of 115 connections sent = 11% "conversion rate". Some takeaways: - Keeping it human is best. Compared to other outreach I've done in the past, this is best reception so far. - When I over-personalize, it sounds like pandering, which sounds like spam. Still figuring out which is better - This is not a sales pitch, so the "conversion rate" isn't a benchmark to take inspiration from by any means - Just sharing what seems like a good way to reach ICP (or figure out if they're not ICP). More ideas in the pipeline.

Looking to hire a video editor to make slick product mini videos. Something like ScreenStudio/Screencharm videos, but more finessed and cinematic. If you know someone, please tag them in a comment

Do the work. Do it even when you’re broke. Do it even if you’re tired. Do it even when it feels like nobody's watching. Just do it.

These guys are basically promising to grow our SaaS by $360k ARR in 90 days or we don't pay. Anyone have a competing offer? I don't really believe in things that are too good to be true, but open to changing my mind.

Looking to hire a video editor to make slick product mini videos. Something like ScreenStudio/Screencharm videos, but more finessed and cinematic. If you know someone, please tag them in a comment

I failed for 3+ years trying to do a tech startup. The one that finally worked was an education business (design bootcamp). We later sold that business to WeWork for 7 figures. Even if you can't do, you can still teach.

Who is the best LinkedIn/X ghost writer? Preferably experienced with SaaS founders

5 years ago, I shared $5 pizzas with my roommate in a tiny room. Today I run a company that has generated $300M+ for clients and travel the world. (Here are 6 of my best lessons):

I am 33. After 10+ years of building startups, generating millions in revenue, 2 exits and helping hundreds of startups make $340M+ combined. Here are 9 hard-earned lessons about building and growing a business:

I just watched a video that was mind blowing. Making this one small adjustment in life can change your entire trajectory. Here’s the concept: In order to win, you need to have wins. In Winners keep winning. Losers keep losing. It’s a vicious cycle. That’s nature. There was a study where scientists they made two mice fight each other. They rigged the first match, and the mouse that won the fight continued on to keep winning all the fights thereafter. Another example is Mr Beast. Not a lot of people know that his first-ever video actually went viral. That sole event might have been all the difference in making him the biggest YouTuber in the world. Craving that vitality again, he wouldn’t stop hunting for it until he could repeat it over and over. I’ve realized personally as well how much lacking that winning mentality has affected my output during periods of trough and sorrow. Being an entrepreneur, there’s so many days where it feels hopeless and redundant. It feels like you’re just going in circles and wasting time and energy. Most of the time, the day to day feels mundane and you question if what you’re doing is worth it. Looking back on my lowest periods, I realize I was mentally in the opposite place of where I should have been. I needed to switch gears and have a winning mentality. If you’re in a slump, all you can feel is down in the dumps. It’s so important you escape self pity and doubt, and get out of this rut as soon as possible. But how? Not everyone can be an outright winner. The key is to trick your brain into defining what is a win. Start with the small wins. Get those dopamine hits. Get out of bed today? That’s a win. Get 2 hours of work done today? Thats a win. Build it up slowly, but don’t ever regress to the pits of sorrow. Look at where you are right now relative to how far you’ve come.

I'm building a new SaaS business from scratch and this is how I'm starting my outreach, cold on LinkedIn. First day results: - 115 connection requests sent - 24 accepted invite (20%) - 24 conversations initiated -- see screenshot of my message asking for feedback - 13 replied back -- no negatives, so counting that as a win (54%) - Other engagements: 1 booked call, 3 really in-depth convos or insightful feedback, 4 website signups Total 13 engagements of 115 connections sent = 11% "conversion rate". Some takeaways: - Keeping it human is best. Compared to other outreach I've done in the past, this is best reception so far. - When I over-personalize, it sounds like pandering, which sounds like spam. Still figuring out which is better - This is not a sales pitch, so the "conversion rate" isn't a benchmark to take inspiration from by any means - Just sharing what seems like a good way to reach ICP (or figure out if they're not ICP). More ideas in the pipeline.

I'm not quite sure what to write about anymore. Mostly caused by lack of engagement. Here's what I've done over the years: - Built in public. Shared revenue and other things openly, all through $40k MRR. Seemed like the most engagement ever. - I took a pause and stopped sharing that kind of stuff openly. But engagement fell off a cliff. Never went back up. - Started living/traveling in Asia. Yap tweets were all during in non US hours (wonder if that affected original engaging audience?) - Hiring a ghostwriter didn't do much for leads, views, or engagement of general impressions or potential new business - Stopped consistently engaging as much with people (e.g not commenting and liking as much on others posts) Now I'm wondering what everyone cares about? 90% of what I tweet is about SaaS, B2B, indie hacking, bootstrapping, and entrepreneurship. I'm thinking I should just sit down and spend a lot more time on more quality long form content. I'm sure there's stuff I can share, but perhaps it's the lack of engagement that discourages me from doing it

GrowSurf is a self-service B2B SaaS in MarTech. Avg churn rate is currently 3.1%. Took 3-4 years to reduce this churn down from 7-11%.

I pushed 12 different third party integrations for our referral marketing platform to production. It took less than 7 days. Integrations like PostHog, Mixpanel, and Google Ads. How? Only way is with AI. A mix of Cursor + Anthropic API UI + ChatGPT web. 3 different codebases with over 60 file changes total. This work would have taken 6-8 weeks minimum. Majority of time was spent testing each integration single handedly and writing the support docs. If you or your dev team isn’t building AI-first, you’re going to find yourself going the way of dinosaurs.