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🌊 Sales Tech Stack

Front-line sales is hard and painful. Building a tech stack for new startups is confusing - there are tons of tools, lots of marketing jargon, and its…

May 21 •

April 2023

🌊 Software eating Software

People are excited about large language models. I’m particularly bullish on the “giving developers superpowers” angle. I believe its the biggest lever…

Apr 16 •

March 2023

🌊 Y Combinator W23

Y Combinator is an accelerator born in 2005 that has built an amazing portfolio of successful startups including Stripe, Airbnb, Dropbox and many…

Mar 5 •

February 2023

🌊 Spanish Generative AI

Although Generative AI is likely (maybe?) early and overhyped, it is important to understand its origins and map out a few simple frameworks to follow…

Feb 5 •

January 2023

We’ve talked about Financial Crises before on Startup Riders, so I won’t go into much detail. Here’s an opinion by Bill Gurley that I subscribe to:I…

Jan 1 •

December 2022

🌊 Customer Intelligence

Post-sales in SaaS businesses has traditionally been an afterthought. In today’s SaaS businesses, everyone is focused on a few, much-talked-about key…

Dec 4, 2022 •

November 2022

🌊 Nuclear Energy

There is a good amount of evidence that suggests increasing nuclear energy production might be the (best?) way to solve this problem safely, or at least…

Nov 6, 2022 •

October 2022

🌊 Gene Editing

For as long as we’ve been getting sick, we’ve been trying to cure the different conditions and diseases that impact us. Unfortunately, many treatments…

Oct 7, 2022 •

September 2022

Humans have lost their way: it’s the old cynic’s credo, and it therefore gets a bad rep. And let’s be honest, it leaves a slight taste of cliche in our…

Sep 11, 2022 •

July 2022

Extraordinary talent and how to spot it (according to YC), Product-market fit, Zuck’s new toys, bias-to-action and a bunch of deals.

Jul 16, 2022 •

June 2022

Now that the markets look like they are cooling off a bit (and remember nobody knows anything about timing the market) - its probably a great time to…

Jun 17, 2022 •

May 2022

🌊 Private Communities

People confuse audience with community. As my good friend Alex @StartupPirate says “To build an audience, you help people. To build a community, you…

May 23, 2022 •

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