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Amazon's $85 Billion Mistake 🫣🫣🫣💔💔 In 2013, a finance guy named Andy Jassy launched a side project inside Amazon. It was called AWS, just a tool for developers to host apps in the cloud. Most people at Amazon thought it would fail. Today, AW

A founder messaged us last month: > "Can you help us scale? We're getting traffic but no signups." We checked their site. The landing page said: “AI-powered, scalable, user-friendly, modular SaaS for dynamic ecosystems.” Translation: “We have n

These kids begged Yahoo to buy their website for $1 Million in 1998. Yahoo's CEO called it "worthless." Today, that little site is worth $2 TRILLION dollars. Here's why they still send Yahoo a "Thank You" card every year: In 1998, Yahoo had a cha

To all new startup founders, here's how 7 different startups hustled for their first customers. If you're feeling disheartened, I hope their stories will inspire you to keep on going! 1 & 2: Tinder & Alibaba - Physically travelled to their first use

𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱𝗜𝗻 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗱 𝗛𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗙𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗮 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲 Most people think if their first startup fails, they’ve failed. But that’s not true. Even 𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗱 �

The Idea Maze: A Founder's Framework for Startup Success Marc Andreessen's assessment of Balaji Srinivasan is striking: "Balaji has the highest good idea output rate of anyone I know." With multiple $100M+ companies sold, experience as Coinbase CTO,

Traditional CAPTCHAs are broken. Here’s what I use instead. As a cybersecurity student, I’ve spent months battling bots on web apps. Those “click all the traffic lights” CAPTCHAs? Bots can solve them faster than we can! So I switched to something be

Your startup idea is worthless... until you validate it. Why this matters? 90% of startups fail. The reason? They skip validation. Before you build, test if your idea actually works. Here's how: Step 1 :- Define the problem Ask yourself: ✅Wha

What to Include in a Data Room for Investors: Essential Guide for Startups : Building an Investor Data Room: When to Share What with Investors Never share all company data upfront - even if investors request immediate data room access. Instead, fol

This man built a $32 BILLION empire selling "worthless" junk online. In 1995, he auctioned off a broken laser pointer as a joke for $14... And created a website that inspired Amazon, Etsy, & Shopify. Here's proof that one person's trash can become