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Where We Go Post-LLM

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3 Reasons You Can't Find Your ICP

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How Stella Garber Raised $5 Million

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From Idea to IPO

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Feb 8, 2025

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9 min read

$100K MRR from a Newsletter

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From $0 to $10 Million Revenue in 15 Months

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4 min read

From $0 to $10 Million Revenue in 15 Months

How Adam Nathan got Blaze into the top 1% of companies on Stripe

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Jan 4, 2025

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7 min read

When to Ignore Your Growth Rate

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Finding PMF

Luke Sophinos on How to Build Vertical SaaS

Jan 2, 2025

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5 min read

Luke Sophinos on How to Build Vertical SaaS

And why Peter Thiel gave him $100,000 to drop out of college

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Founder Psychology

How Pujun Bhatnagar Doubled His Valuation to $75M... In 3 Months

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How Pujun Bhatnagar Doubled His Valuation to $75M... In 3 Months

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Growth

How Tibo Louis-Lucas Bootstrapped To A $10 Million Exit

Dec 12, 2024

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5 min read

How Tibo Louis-Lucas Bootstrapped To A $10 Million Exit

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Deep Dives

10 Signals You're Playing the Wrong Game

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5 min read

10 Signals You're Playing the Wrong Game

It's easy to get caught up doing something that only sort of works

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Founder Psychology

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9 min read

Marc Andreessen's Guide to Startups

His lost blog series from 2007 is still relevant today

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Deep Dives

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10 min read

Creating a Category is Overrated

CommandBar's unique path to disrupting an established market

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8 Lessons From The Most Successful Pivots Ever

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2 min read

8 Lessons From The Most Successful Pivots Ever

Did you know Nintendo used to be a taxi company?

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Growth

Why Founder Market Fit is More Important than PMF (and when that changes)

Feb 18, 2023

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4 min read

Why Founder Market Fit is More Important than PMF (and when that changes)

Plus — get access to my personal database of 7,000+ investors

Michael Houck

Finding PMF

10 Curated Guides From Y Combinator

Where We Go Post-LLM

3 Reasons You Can't Find Your ICP

From Founder to VA

How Stella Garber Raised $5 Million

From Idea to IPO

$100K MRR from a Newsletter

From $0 to $10 Million Revenue in 15 Months

When to Ignore Your Growth Rate

Luke Sophinos on How to Build Vertical SaaS

How Pujun Bhatnagar Doubled His Valuation to $75M... In 3 Months

How Tibo Louis-Lucas Bootstrapped To A $10 Million Exit

10 Signals You're Playing the Wrong Game

Marc Andreessen's Guide to Startups

Creating a Category is Overrated

8 Lessons From The Most Successful Pivots Ever

Why Founder Market Fit is More Important than PMF (and when that changes)

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