# Founding Journey

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## Posts
- [Don't Be Afraid To Pivot](https://foundingjourney.com/p/dont-be-afraid-to-pivot): And why the seed stage may be dying
- [Team Over Product](https://foundingjourney.com/p/team-over-product): How Burhan Syed got into Techstars with a self-proclaimed bad idea
- [Launching JOLT!](https://foundingjourney.com/p/launching-jolt): And why you should be building your founder brand with video
- [Just Ship The Best Product](https://foundingjourney.com/p/just-ship-the-best-product): And a wrinkle on Jeff Bezos's most famous framework
- [One Thing YC Looks For](https://foundingjourney.com/p/one-thing-yc-looks-for): And why your trajectory matters more than your starting point
- [Outcome-Based Selling](https://foundingjourney.com/p/outcome-based-selling): And why bad reasons shouldn't stop you
- [Treat Every No as a Not Yet](https://foundingjourney.com/p/treat-every-no-as-a-not-yet-5e40): And why Alina Su keeps a death clock on her desk
- [Founders Are Happy](https://foundingjourney.com/p/founders-are-happy): And why the biggest risk is not being delusional
- [$5 Billion Exit from Riding Waves](https://foundingjourney.com/p/5-billion-exit-from-riding-waves): And why Ratmir Timashev is now betting big on Ohio
- [Super IC > 10x Engineer](https://foundingjourney.com/p/super-ic-10x-engineer): And why you should build what you'd pay for
- [Build What You Know](https://foundingjourney.com/p/build-what-you-know): Horse Spot's 4 advantages from being insiders
- [The Founder's Tax](https://foundingjourney.com/p/the-founders-tax): And a slight twist on a classic framework
- [The Next Elon?](https://foundingjourney.com/p/the-next-elon): How Emil Barr is front-loading success
- [Sell Less](https://foundingjourney.com/p/sell-less): And a reminder it comes down to pain endurance
- [AI For Normies](https://foundingjourney.com/p/ai-for-normies): And why no one cares about your idea
- [How to Turn Your Relationships into Revenue](https://foundingjourney.com/p/how-to-turn-your-relationships-into-revenue): Why Cape's human-first approach stands out in the age of AI slop
- [13 Years Bootstrapped, Then $22M](https://foundingjourney.com/p/13-years-bootstrapped-then-22m): How AppSignal's co-founders decided to bring on partners after years of bootstrapping
- [4 Roles of a Founder](https://foundingjourney.com/p/4-roles-of-a-founder): And how to become an AI-native startup
- [How To Be Contrarian And Right](https://foundingjourney.com/p/how-to-be-contrarian-and-right): And why Keeper.ai is the first compelling "dating" app in years
- [AI-First Teams](https://foundingjourney.com/p/ai-first-teams): And why the average market cap for unicorns is at historic levels
- [7 Attributes of AI-Native Startups](https://foundingjourney.com/p/7-attributes-of-ai-native-startups): Expanding on some ideas from YC
- [You Are The Pitch](https://foundingjourney.com/p/you-are-the-pitch): And the top cities for unicorns
- [Seven Days in Costa Rica](https://foundingjourney.com/p/seven-days-in-costa-rica): And how to join my next founder mastermind in May
- [The GTM Engineer](https://foundingjourney.com/p/the-gtm-engineer): And why you need 10,000 reps
- [Data Center Building Boom](https://foundingjourney.com/p/data-center-building-boom): And why you should spend time on things that compound
- [Positionless Basketball](https://foundingjourney.com/p/positionless-basketball): How to build your death lineup
- [Top 1% Exits](https://foundingjourney.com/p/top-1-exits): And why you need hyper delusion
- [Founder Leverage Test](https://foundingjourney.com/p/founder-leverage-test): And why distribution has always been the hard part
- [Don’t Worry About Being Hated](https://foundingjourney.com/p/dont-worry-about-being-hated): And showing how tech employment is declining
- [Who's Killing It?](https://foundingjourney.com/p/whos-killing-it): Takeaways from a dinner conversation
- [Agents Are Eating SaaS](https://foundingjourney.com/p/agents-are-eating-saas): And why you should get creative
- [Just Build It](https://foundingjourney.com/p/just-build-it): And the acceleration of college-educated job loss
- [The World Rewards Audacity](https://foundingjourney.com/p/the-world-rewards-audacity): And why intelligence is getting cheaper
- [Hands & Feet](https://foundingjourney.com/p/hands-feet): And what human-computer interaction looks like in the future
- [The Gap](https://foundingjourney.com/p/the-gap): And what the heck is going on with hands and feet
- [You're Leaving Millions on the Table](https://foundingjourney.com/p/youre-leaving-millions-on-the-table): How Schematic raised $4.8M to help you grow faster
- [3 Years of AI](https://foundingjourney.com/p/3-years-of-ai): And a reminder that people pay to stop feeling pain
- [The Delegation Flywheel](https://foundingjourney.com/p/the-delegation-flywheel): And why risk is where the opportunity is
- [The Vanishing Sub $5M Round](https://foundingjourney.com/p/the-vanishing-sub-5m-round): And why you should hire for jobs you know how to do
- [We Are So Back](https://foundingjourney.com/p/we-are-so-back-19e1): And why it's your job to believe
- [Mobile Apps Are Back](https://foundingjourney.com/p/mobile-apps-are-back): And why founders need to understand psychology
- [Join Me In Costa Rica](https://foundingjourney.com/p/join-me-in-costa-rica): And this week's highlights
- [10 Curated Guides From Y Combinator](https://foundingjourney.com/p/10-curated-guides-from-y-combinator): Worth revisiting time and time again
- [US Startups Are Pulling Ahead](https://foundingjourney.com/p/us-startups-are-pulling-ahead): And remember that you're one business away
- [Where We Go Post-LLM](https://foundingjourney.com/p/where-we-go-post-llm): And if OpenAI is secretly doomed