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@LewisHowes Persistence and drive, I find, are very valuable, yet some overlook them. Raw talent is great, but others can outwork talent.

What’s something successful people do that most people underestimate?

@auren A very valid point. Platform-dependent is the new theme, and it is wild to see AI eating companies that own the AI.

the new companies built on AI are actually the most vulnerable to AI disruption. customers of first-gen AI tools are the exact people who switch the minute something better ships.

@craigzLiszt Task-based automation started it. AI transformed the discussion with visual proof. The pure speed of AI changed everything. When people first built bots, they spent thousands on a single bot task... compared to today, AI is smart, fast, and capable of reasoning.

we're actually in the midst of an automation revolution, but it's being overshadowed by the ai hype

Built Murlyn a 20-analyst stakeholder simulation platform in weeks, solo, no engineers. Vibe coding got me to the product. The missing piece nobody talks about: building fast means you also ship the wrong thing fast. We built Scout to simulate the room before the product reaches it. Scout was created based on direct feedback from our users. Same energy, opposite direction. I'll look into gstack..... murlyn.ai

99.9% of founders need to go to Claude Code and type "Install GStack"

@mal_shaik It's like an old-school paper route for a newspaper; now everyone wants to be a newspaper/distributor and delivery boy :).

the irony of AI coding agents is they solved the building problem so fast that they exposed an even bigger one everyone can build now almost nobody can distribute

@thesayannayak like pacman eating code and small unprepared startups,

Claude will kill your SaaS before a competitor does.

@ivanburazin Great feedback. Not everyone can walk in and get a check with flip-flops. Standing out, persistence, and having founders who understand what's needed and can sell to some extent are key.

Fundraising cliché: "Every no brings you closer to a yes." Sounds like BS when you're getting rejected. Even the conversations that ended in a pass when we were raising our first round helped us in one way or another. - refine the pitch - identify weak points in our story - understand what resonated and what didn't By pitch 50, I could predict which questions would come up and had crisp answers ready. By pitch 100, I knew within 10 minutes whether someone was going to invest, based on their body language and follow up questions. Sent 432 cold emails, 120+ pitches, and hit the valley of death at less than 50% of our target. But we kept going. Refined, adjusted, and pushed through until the round was oversubscribed.

@rileybrown Agreed, especially in early stages. We are actively engaging with our users to see what's missing and what they want. They are your best signal, not the cash in the bank.

The best founders are obsessed with the customer. But now you also need to be obsessed with your customers agent.

@aryanlabde What's your best advice to all the product people with no sales/distribution experience?

Hot take: If you’ve shipped more than 2 products with 0 users, the problem isn’t the idea.

@danmartell Get out in front of people. The AI "Do you want ot compare notes?" or "If useful, let's schedule time"....make a connection

Business is actually simple. You don't need a website, a logo, or a rebrand. You need to talk to people. The more hands you shake, the more money you make.

@icanvardar Is marketing being diluted overall, though, since AI is used everywhere? Fewer people for events, tools, and campaigns... yes, you can market the brand, but are costs and metrics deteriorating? Field marketing seems to still be big...just my views

marketing is the last skill left to actually compete with

@md_kadiwal Maximizing the distribution model from a cold start. It's hard work.

what's one thing you keep putting off that would probably double your users?

@Kazanjy Can't agree more, and it was our premise for Murlyn. Without wow and a data moat/asset, many are just wrappers trying to replicate workflows with AI masks.

Founders: in your demos you want to be going for “oh wow” moments. Because the status quo is your enemy, you need strong emotional responses to your product to catalyze a desire to change. If you’re not hearing “oh wow” in your demo, you should be worried. Wrong script. Product isn’t there yet. Wrong target prospect. Something else. You need “wows.”

@geoffreywoo founders maximize delivery model, funding size, and potential exit, which is understandable if they account for all of the factors that influence the room. The product is another discussion :)

The venture capital industrial complex is broken because everyone optimizes for the wrong metrics. VCs optimize for fund size and brand recognition. Founders optimize for valuation and press coverage. LPs optimize for name recognition and social proof. Meanwhile the only thing that actually matters - building products customers desperately want - gets lost in the noise. This is why 90% of startups fail and why most VC funds return less than the S&P 500. At @Antifund we optimize for one thing: founders who solve real problems for real people. Everything else is just Silicon Valley theater.

@AbudukerimuS @foxtomb232 We are pushing to drive organic growth as well. Best of luck, and appreciate the insights.

@foxtomb232 Reply helps to push the algorithm more than just creating posts. I agree

Being a reply guy is exhausting. Yet I did it consistently for 14 days. Results: +3k followers + 102M impressions All from 50+ replies daily. It’s the best growth hack for small accounts.

What if every decision you make creates a parallel timeline? The proposal you sent that died in committee in another timeline, you ran it through 20 analysts first. You saw the CFO's objection coming. You fixed it. The deal closed. The pitch deck that got passed on in another timeline, you knew the GP's exact concern before you walked in the room. The contract you signed without reading closely enough in another timeline, your General Counsel persona flagged the indemnification clause on page 7. AI doesn't predict the future, but it can simulate it. It reads between the lines of your document and shows you the timeline where you lose before you live it. The gap between those two timelines is about 60 seconds. murlyn.ai

@foxtomb232 Run your website startup through our analysis for free, and post your link murlyn.ai

Hey founders!! Share what you’ve built this week. 👇

@CiprianiRanieri Drop your startup link below. Or better....... Run it on Murlyn and post your results if you have the guts. 20+ analysts. No filter. No politeness. Positioning. Messaging. Threat level. Where you're losing buyers. Most sites won't survive it. Will yours? murlyn.ai

Builders only. Drop what you're building. 500 founders are watching. I'll be your first user. ↓

@jakobjelling Drop your startup link below. Or better....... Run it on Murlyn and post your results if you have the guts. 20+ analysts. No filter. No politeness. Positioning. Messaging. Threat level. Where you're losing buyers. Most sites won't survive it. Will yours? murlyn.ai

It's Monday. Time to promote your product. What are you working on?