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JoshStarr
@joshstarr
Founder-led enterprise engineering + production AI. Bootstrapping SaaS & Agencies. Husband to @RachelleNStarr. Dad. Following Jesus. Louisville.
Louisville, KY Beigetreten Kasım 2025
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@alxberman Did you know these 20 people personally? Because I’ve done cold email for years and that conversion rate to meetings would be the highest I’ve ever seen by 10x
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Sitting in a basement with a laptop.
No office. No warm intros. No brand.
First 20 emails went out.
8 meetings booked.
Not 8 replies. 8 actual meetings.
The people telling you cold email is dead have never actually run a sequence properly.
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@YashHustle_22 There’s no longer time for this. The only way is to build a SaaS because YOU are the customer and you feel the pain acutely. It’s the era of the builder/owner.
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friend of mine just sold his agency for 21.2 million
he texted me the day the wire hit and asked if I wanted to grab dinner
he showed up in the same hoodie he's been wearing since 2017
ordered a burger
paid in cash
didn't mention the sale once the entire meal
drove home in his 2016 honda
I asked him later why he didn't celebrate and he said "the celebration was the wire, why would I need a steak"
I think about that often
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A good rule for Twitter health:
If you use your real name,
And your real face,
On your Twitter?
Never, ever engage with someone who doesn't use their own name + face on their Twitter.
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@jonbrosio Freedom to manage your own schedule is more valuable than any silly title
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Your friends have no clue what you're building.
And that's fine. They're measuring success in: Job titles. House size. Car brands. You're measuring it in: Time sovereignty. Income freedom. Life design.
Different scoreboard.
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@kzitouni1 Exactly. People only care if you can solve their problems well
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Nobody cares if your idea is cool anymore
Nobody cares if you used claude or gpt or kimi
Nobody even cares if you used AI for your content or ads
All that matters is if you're solving REAL problems and making $$$ out of it.
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Guy I know built a $30M business
Never raised a dollar
Doesn't do podcasts
Has 12 employees
Been profitable since year 2
He's at every single school pickup
The goal isn't to be a CEO
The goal is to be free
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@joshstarr Hey! Currently building multiple SaaS and experimenting with agentic AI.
Let's connect🤝
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@joshstarr knowing what not to build is years of shipping wrong things and watching them flop
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@corbin_braun I'm seeing the same thing. As a bootstrapped founder, it's taken me years to build the skills. I think everyone is cooked unless you can build the skills quick.
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job market is cooked because of AI
I have always been an entrepreneur and will stay an entrepreneur till the end of my life.
but wow
This new market is essentially forcing everyone to become an entrepreneur
just a piece of advice for everyone who is going on this journey
it takes years to see results.
years of nothing.
then it all comes in.
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My wife and I operate an offical 501c3 and we have a saas solution that is profitable and fights human trafficking. We have reached 250,000+ victims in the usa over the last 7 years. Would love to connect if you are interested in helping us reach the other 3million in our database.
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i am going to start Good Work Grants
funding people to pursue their good work, even if it doesn't fit in VC-shaped realities
Nan Ransohoff@nanransohoff
New blog post: The third wave of American philanthropy Hundreds of billions of dollars in new philanthropic capital will soon become liquid. The OpenAI Foundation holds 26% of OpenAI, worth about $220B at today’s valuation. Anthropic’s seven co-founders have pledged to give away 80% of their wealth and have instituted the most aggressive donor matching program for employees in tech history. How much does this all add up to? And how meaningful is that in the context of philanthropy today? I was doing some simple napkin math to wrap my head around the scale of what’s coming, and radicalized myself in the process. I had dramatically underappreciated the scale of the philanthropic capital that’s about to become available and the corresponding gap in talent and organizations that will be needed to make the most of it. This piece aims to directionally sketch the scale of what’s coming, the gap in operational capacity needed to absorb it, and what we can do to fill it. (Link to full post in reply)
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@joshstarr Building with AI is the fun part. Knowing what data, access, and assumptions went into it is the grown-up part. That is what survives real customers.
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