Your Plan B Against the AI Layoff Trend

AI may not replace all engineers. AI may not replace all job functions. AI WILL vastly reduce headcount at all sizes of companies. What do you do for your Plan B?

Why Founders Should Avoid Equity Deals Before Validation

Giving up equity early on is one of the worst decisions an entrepreneur makes. Say, you give up 15% for $200k in pre-seed accelerator funding. What happens next? You haven’t validated anything yet. You don’t know whether your business has the capacity to go from 0 to $100M in 5-7 years. That’s what VCs are

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Tuft & Needle to Over $100M

Online mattress is one of the hottest e-commerce categories, and here is yet another one delivering venture-scale growth without venture capital. Tuft & Needle Co-founder JT Marino shared his story with me in 2017. If you’re inspired by Tuft & Needle’s bootstrapped success, explore how a virtual accelerator for solo founders or an equity-free startup

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