@damengchen I did this in 2007 after I quit my job to go fulltime in my first startup...
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Josh Ho
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Josh Ho
@jlogic
Sharing my founder stories in marketing, startups, and growing a SaaS business - Founder CEO @ReferralRock - Podcast cohost @searching4saas
Silver Spring, MD Katılım Mart 2008
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Just sold my car to extend some runway 😭
Running a business is hard!
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wait so does this mean people will stop putting bananas on my car?
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morning update: been waiting 20 minutes for Gemini deep research to do its thing.
it's still chugging away
absolutely unreal that machines are doing this amount of work for us.
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@rishabhmjain @kamilrextin The 1 new customer for every existing customer per year is a tall order...
BUT maybe in aggregate. i.e. 5 customers = 5 referrals per year.
Most of the time with referrals you get a customer that is a "connector" of sorts and ones that don't recommend/refer at all.
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@kamilrextin @jlogic Ya that’s why I want it to be someone who’s A+’s only job. Might put a jd up tomo. Would pay a lot for this role.
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I’d like to hire someone who is obsessed with new ways of thinking about growth
The first thing I’d like them to do is to create an operating system that drives 1 new customer from *every* existing customer per year
This would be ridiculous leverage and very cross functional to get this to work
DM me if you think you could do this
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@theandreboso Feels like the classic "what people want" vs "what they need" to achieve the outcome.
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The other day I asked for feedback on a 7/30-day marketing challenge I wanted to build. But a lot of people told me they want to be able to move at their own pace.
So I’m considering creating a platform that lets people choose and complete exercises. I’m using Lovable to quickly create a prototype and get some feedback.
The idea would be that the more exercises you do the better your marketing will be. I think new founders might find it very helpful.
It might be a pay-once access-all type of project. I don’t think I can trust vibe coding for something that involves payments yet but I’m open to being proven wrong.
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Working at an Airbnb with family is a bad idea. 😂
I found a great co-working space for the next few weeks. But I have no idea how I'll do any podcast interviews until my 'studio' in our new house is built.
#newfloridalife
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@VicVijayakumar Interesting. My heart rate doesn't change that much upon being sick
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As a GPT wrapper, we don't actually do anything, but our quality improves thanks to better AI models.
We don't take action to reduce costs, yet our profit margin continues to increase.
We simply focus on creating a good wrapper so others can make fun of us 😎
GREG ISENBERG@gregisenberg
DeepSeek just proved the 'worthless' GPT wrapper startups are actually the ones with real moats. A week ago, nothing was more LOW status than being a 'GPT wrapper' startup. But I think we're learning that's DEAD wrong. Turns out they were just early to the only game that matters While DeepSeek, Meta, Anthropic and Microsoft battle over benchmark scores, these 'wrapper' companies have been quietly building the only moat that matters: interface loyalty. Because of how big owning the LLM is for national defense and the economy, the next breakthrough model is always 2 weeks away. DeepSeek launches today, someone else drops a better one tomorrow. But getting millions of people to make your product part of their daily workflow - that's the real barrier to entry. ChatGPT didn't win because it had the best model. It won because it was dead simple to use. And I think it has staying power because of that. This is why all those AI startups we dismissed are actually positioned to win. They're not competing on model performance - they're competing on being the default way humans interact with AI. Frontier models are becoming commodities. User habits aren't. While everyone obsesses over the next architecture breakthrough, the real game is being played in the interface layer. The moat isn't in the model - it's in being the tool people reach for without thinking. Technology advantage is temporary. Interface lock-in is forever. Keep shipping those wrappers, my friends.
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Let's make this happen - we already have a venue in Porto
Fill this in if you're interested and I will follow up with more details
tally.so/r/3EvJNA
Pat Walls@thepatwalls
The MRR Open: A weekend tennis tournament for founders around the world. Hang out, play tennis, build startups, trade ideas. @sab8a @harrydry @stripe are already in. Who else?
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My plans for 2025:
Not goals. More like changes in my approach and mindset.
- 4-day work week.
- Portfolio business model.
- Organic marketing.
Full post:
briancasel.com/2025-changes
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2024 was a year I won’t forget.
My 2 posts 👇 sum up my takeaways and changes I’m making in 2025.
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It’s slower than I would like but that’s ok for now.
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just shipped a change so the components placeholder updates with a plain text description of the segment as it's updated.
hoping leads to less confusion. normie users sometimes get confused with rule builders as it's a complex UI.
˗ˏˋ Jesse Hanley ˎˊ˗@jessethanley
aaaaand now it’s in flows (our automation product).
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Bootstrapping a business is an endless journey. When I was at $0, all I wanted was that first paying customer. Once I got my first, I aimed for 10. Then, I set my sights on $10k ARR, $100k ARR, and even $1M ARR.
Now, one of my businesses has surpassed $1M.
I stopped only dreaming of $10M. Instead, I looked back a few years to see how far I've come. Cherishing what I've already achieved is such a blessing!
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@itsjustamar Yes. Have improved with changing of cadences and changes of metrics.
But as with most things, the transition took time....
Happy to explain more offline
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Question for founders with teams:
Have you found your team lacking urgency/intensity over time?
If so, how did you renew that / fix that? Or did you think it was a problem at all?
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So, I was having this debate with colleagues about the most profitable type of website to start. Naturally, everyone had strong opinions.
One guy swore by e-commerce, another pitched affiliate sites, and someone else passionately argued for blogs.
Meanwhile, I sat there thinking, “Can’t we just build something that makes money and doesn’t kill us with stress?”
Here’s what we sort of landed on as being the most profitable website types (not in order):
1. E-commerce – Still great for selling products, but very competitive.
2. Affiliate Sites – Earning commissions with reviews is still viable despite Google changes.
3. Blogs – Ad revenue + sponsored posts; niches like tech, finance, or hobbies do well.
4. SaaS – Recurring revenue from tools; requires more upfront effort, but earning potential is unmatched.
5. Online Courses – Find a way to turn your expertise into income via memberships or sales.
6. Utility Sites – Think calculators or converters; tools like this actually have solid passive income potential.
Bottom line: Pick something you enjoy, focus on value, and stick with it!
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I have so many ideas to build. It’s unlikely that any of these ideas can generate more revenue than BoltAI but I just wanted to see it becomes real 🥹
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@theandreboso The overview just popped up yesterday (but seems to be gone today... maybe my 👎 helped)
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@jlogic Out of curiosity what position was the site listed in the overview before this change?
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