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The 3-country fee stack is pricey. You might want to check remitroutes.com just to see rates side by side, they include crypto rails vs traditional providers across 100s of corridors. At least you'd know how much you're actually losing on spreads and if stablecoins offer a cheaper alternative

RIP Wise. I lost $8,000 in fees last year. And I had no idea. I’m French. I live in Bali. I run a US LLC. Every dollar I earn touches 3 countries before it reaches my pocket. 1. Stripe takes 1%–3% on every transaction. 2. Wise takes a cut on every transfer. 3. Currency conversion eats another big chunk every single time. I thought this was just the cost of doing business internationally. I never questioned it. Then I realized there were other options. @airwallex. was on the top of my list but now I’ll 100% switch. The money I’ll save in fees will make me fly business to Europe for free each year.

@AlanaDLevin Plausible explanation might be that the 15-20% parked at Coinbase earning rewards would leave the system altogether and reduce USDC circulating supply & yield they earn. Seems like a proportionate response by the markets

BREAKING: company that makes money on treasury yields and faces constant questions around whether that take rate can persist FALLS nearly 20% on news that it may now have a regulatory moat that helps it keep the yield

@WatcherGuru The new language will seek to bar yield payments “on a passive balance,”

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Senators reach deal with White House to resolve crypto stablecoin yield dispute with banks.

@Ripple Crypto / stablecoins beat fiat on FX spread across most emerging market corridors already. remitroutes.com tracks these rates in real time

$100B+ processed. 60+ markets. 51 real-time rails. RLUSD at $1B market cap in under a year. Ripple Payments brings it all together: fiat, stablecoins, 75+ licenses, so businesses can move money globally without the patchwork: on.ripple.com/47u9NXx

@sabakarimm Missing one here, FreeStartupFunding.com. Data is from SEC Form D filings, not scraped directories. GP names and LinkedIn profiles for direct outreach. Free to search and they're building warm intros too.

Fundraising and investor outreach tools 2026: • Metal. $200 a month (billed quarterly). Unlimited search, but no emails. • FounderSuite. $69 a month. 200 outreach / month. • AngelMatch. $59 a month. 100 outreach / month. • OpenVC. $25 a month (billed annually). 5 outreach / day. • Boardy. Free. 3 intros / day. • Signal NFX. Free. Unlimited warm intros.

@KanoiKrishnav Solid rundown. FreeStartupFunding.com tracks over 200 accelerators. Covers a bunch not on this list too, smaller regional programs, international ones, industry-specific. Worth a look if one is comparing options

A curated list of leading startup accelerators and funding programs for early-stage founders - Boost VC — up to $500k | 15% - Antler — $200k–$250k | 8–9% - Y Combinator — $500k | ~7% - Techstars — $220k | ~5–7% - 500 Global — $150k | 6% - Entrepreneur First — $250k | ~9% - a16z Speedrun — $750k–$1M | ~7–10% - South Park Commons — $400k | 7% (+ $600k follow-on) - HF0 — $1M uncapped | 5% (or $500k + 3%) - NEO — $600k | Uncapped SAFE ($10M floor) - Sequoia Arc — $1M - PearX — $250k–$2M - Pioneer — $20k | 1% - LAUNCH — $125k | 6–7% - The Mint — $500k | 10% - AngelPad — $120k | 7% - Betaworks AI Camp — $500k - Greylock Edge — SAFE + $500k+ credits - Conviction Embed — $150k | Uncapped MFN SAFE - OpenAI Converge — $1M equity - Startup Wise Guys — up to €65k - APX — up to €500k (typically €50k | 5%) - Founders Fellowship — $150k | 5–10% - Seedcamp — €100k–€200k | 7–7.5% - Antler (EU) — €100k | 10% + stipend - Google for Startups — up to $100k - Accel Atoms — up to $500k–$1M - AI Grant — $250k | Uncapped - AI2 Incubator — $50k–$150k - Afore Capital — $100k–$500k - Berkeley SkyDeck — $200k - Soma Capital — $100k - gener8tor — $100k | 7.5% - Forum Ventures — $100k | 7.5% - Startupbootcamp — €15k–€20k | 6–8% - Plug and Play — $25k–$500k - Bethnal Green Ventures — £60k | 7% - HSG START — CHF 200k | 4–10% - Entrepreneurs Roundtable (ERA) — $150k | 6% (+ $320k credits) - Founder Institute — Equity-based program

@anishmoonka @10minutegita yeah there is another app built with claude called srimadgita.com has both ios and android support

Started a week ago, not knowing how to write a single line of code I wanted to read the Bhagavad Gita daily, but couldn't find an app that felt right. So I built one. Ended with a full iOS app live @10minutegita on the App Store: → 239 daily readings of the Bhagavad Gita → Original Sanskrit shlokas + transliteration → Verse-by-verse translations & commentary → Personal daily reflections → Streak tracking with calendar heatmap → Shareable verse cards with 8 gradient themes → Hindi & English bilingual support → Light/dark mode, adjustable fonts → Completely offline after download Total cost: $200 Claude Max Subscription + $20 ChatGPT Pro Subscription + $99 Apple Developer fee Lines of code I wrote: 0 Claude Code wrote everything. I just described what I wanted in plain English (non-technical background). Codex reviewed it. Now it's live on the App Store. The barrier to building isn't coding anymore. It's just knowing what problem you want solved. Links & Full Process in 🧵↓ Built with @AnthropicAI's Claude Code

@Teddarific 👏

This UI was one-shotted using a video as the prompt. It captures interactions, full flows, and animations — stuff that is typically painful to prompt for. Looking for early adopters to try our new Video → UI feature 👀

@kapursanat @0xLewis_gg Artificial Intelligence Insurance 🤔

the website of the company insuring aave deposits (h/t @0xLewis_gg) this is not the vibe i seek from people "insuring" my deposits but best of luck

@jn_jackk freestartupfunding.com is another great data source of vetted VCs that have raised funds over the past 3 eyars

Have any plans to raise money for a startup? Or already are? I've built a searchable database of 10,000+ investors - angels, VCs, and accelerators you can reach out to immediately. It comes with verified emails, LinkedIn, and even some phone numbers. Want access? • Like this post • Comment "FUNDRAISE" • Follow me so I can DM you the link I'll send it over ASAP. P.S.: If you are serious about fundraising (now or in the future), you should grab it right away.

@victorcardenas @colmdotcom @slashapp You're revenue is mostly interchange fee on credit card spend?

@colmdotcom @slashapp Monthly revenue x 12 🫡

Slash, @slashapp, just crossed $150M in annualized revenue profitably. We went from $2M -> $150M in 24 months making us the fastest-growing business banking* platform of all time. 700 word post on 4 guiding principles that got us here. This cost us >$10M dollars to learn... (Bookmark this) I'll cover: • Picking the right market (where 99% of founders go wrong) • Why revenue is the ONLY business metric that matters • Why market saturation is fake • What every founder does day to day that they shouldn't 1. Attack “small” markets: Startup founders - myself included - gravitate towards working on companies that have huge upside. Here's the problem: it’s difficult to find aggressive product-market fit / build a differentiated product if you don’t sell ONE offer to ONE person. I'll repeat: one offer, to one person Examples: • PayPal didn't start by trying to own 70% of online payments they started with payment processing just for eBay merchants. • Uber started as black cars for rich SF people. Ask yourself, what am I selling and to who? If you're selling more than one thing to more than one person, in the beginning, you're not niche enough. Slash started by building a better credit card for SNEAKER RESELLERS. Ridiculously niche. And that tiny wedge alone got us to $5M ARR in 11 months. Once you dominate the niche, you earn the right (and the cash) to expand outward. We STILL go after “small” verticals because our competitors are too arrogant to do it. We walk in and own them. 2. Revenue is the only metric that matters. Everything else is cope. If your revenue isn't growing, nothing else matters. Revenue gives you two things: A) Money to redeploy. (Obvious.) B) Momentum. A team that’s winning wants to work harder. A team that’s losing checks out. To become a unicorn, you have to outwork everyone else. To outwork everyone else, you need morale. To get morale, you need wins. To get wins, you need revenue. Everything ladders back to one thing: Sell more, sooner. Drive sales and demand → everything else falls into place. 3. “Market saturation” is fake. When starting Slash, everyone told us we'd never be successful because Ramp, Brex, and Mercury were already worth > $10bn. The reality is that fintech is only 5% penetrated. 95% of business deposits and corporate card spend still runs through the legacy banks. Many markets are similar to B2B fintech. They can “feel” settled because there is a sexy startup that everyone’s heard about, but dinosaurs have all the rev share. There's always a way to find your wedge. 4. 99% of founders do the wrong thing at the wrong time When you start your role as the founder is to do EVERYTHING. And you should outsource nothing. Example: If you run an ecom business you should write film and edit EVERY single script. If you're a CTO you should write every line of code. Biggest 🚩in an early stage founder is someone who says they need to "outsource to an expert". No. You ARE the expert or you become one. Founders who outsource early are lazy. When you grow this needs to change rapidly. >10M ARR you need to SHIFT fast. Your role as the founder should be to bring in people competent enough to deliver on all of your initiatives. There is simply too much to do and it won’t be possible for you to brute force your way out of every problem. We're winning because 65% of our team is on the spectrum. We have savant engineers who this year alone have, shipped treasury, Stablecoin Payments, check deposits, SWIFT, Global USD, accounting automations, a completely new interface, and more. We have a world-class GTM and ops team. Because of it, we blow our competitors out of the water when it comes to revenue / employee, payment volume / employee, and other efficiency metrics. -------- If you have read this far, thank you. I got told countless times Slash would never be anything. We want Slash to be the first trillion dollar fintech company in the world. At our current growth rate we'll hit 1 billion dollars in revenue run rate in 18 months and 100 billion in 7 years. We’re giving it our all to accelerate our growth rate and hit these metrics even faster.

Looks great!

@andruyeung Building @ballastmarkets, making global trade-flow risk a directly hedgeable asset

Dear algo, please show this post only to the weirdest founders building cool shit who could use a $50K investment. Please instruct the users to tell me what they are building.

@KSimback Crypto startups waking up to how the rest of tech world works. Selling tokens should never be a business model instead focus on building products one can sell and make fees or revenue on

Crypto venture may be a bit cooked here There will always be a few big, high profile deals to fund (Polymarket, Tempo, etc) But infra is pretty saturated, and most dapps won’t present venture returns beyond maybe the seed round Then you have the trend of dapps with no/minimal funding going straight to revenue (HL being the best example) There has simply been too much VC capital funding low quality projects and not enough coming in the liquid side to absorb all the new issuance and allow for good exits So the most likely outcome is the 22-24 vintages won’t perform too well and we see fewer new funds due to low LP appetite This means unless you’re a big, high profile project you may need to find a path straight to revenue with minimal funding This will force projects to find pmf quickly or close up shop Then for those that find pmf, the best option is likely some form of community round to bring in growth capital The end result is a big middle chunk of crypto VC gets hollowed out Perhaps this is natures way of healing

@ajhodls Spicy take, although a lot of enterprise changes still happen face-to-face

in-person sales is inversely correlated to product quality

@christophersaum Congrats on deal 16. “Massive models on micro compute” has a massive TAM as well. I am exploring a weird corner of markets around real-world trade risk where proxies break. If you’re ever curious, I would love your take.

The best founders don’t just build products, they sell a new reality. Just funded our 16th deal, $1M check & our biggest yet Massive AI models on micro compute. A local AI coding assistant that runs right on your Mac. - No token or usage limits - Fully private - <500ms response time Excited to back the team making sci-fi a reality. Reminder: we’re backing at least one new team every month with $100k to $1M checks.

@ankurnagpal Once they offer 10x leverage, you could do the arbitrage with the same capital on both venues

How to make free money today from the NYC mayor election: - Bet Yes on Andrew Cuomo on Polymarket - Bet No on Andrew Cuomo on Kalshi with 10x more size You win either way Enjoy your free, guaranteed 100%+ annualized return

@patrickc A comparison of Bay Area startups vs rest of the US might also reveal some striking stats. Rest of US might be closers to the other regions in the chart

An interesting trend we're noticing at Stripe: US startups are pulling ahead of their peers elsewhere. These charts show averaged revenue growth for software startups in each location. US startups typically grow somewhat faster than those elsewhere. However, since mid-2023, US companies have accelerated a lot. Interestingly, this is not just because of AI startups: if we strip those out, there's still a big divergence. Our leading hypothesis is that US startups (even those that aren't AI companies as such) are adopting new technologies (AI, stablecoins, etc.) faster than companies elsewhere. (This pattern of faster adoption among US companies was also seen with the internet itself.) Whatever the cause, the pattern is striking. [Methodological note: this pattern appears to hold beyond Europe as well.]

@bonatsos Ideally, the product is the pitch deck

The best angel checks get written before the pitch deck is polished.

@roelofbotha @sequoia Congrats @roelofbotha ! We're working on @ballastmarkets to make supply-chain risk tradable

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