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The Dark Side of AI Gold Rush: Why Everyone Feels Behind

  • May 17, 2026
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Stop panicking over AI valuations. The real early-stage playbook? Ignore PR hype, build from proximity, and use your ugliest setbacks to close real deals.
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Gift Ideas for Entrepreneurs
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Gift Ideas for Entrepreneurs: Beyond Tech & Gadgets

  • May 1, 2026
When a VC-backed founder hits a big milestone, the celebration usually looks familiar. A new laptop. A high-end gadget. Some branded swag. Maybe cash. I understand why people do it.…
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Adam-Gellert-AI-Agents in Hiring
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The Future of AI in Hiring: 2026 Trends for Startups

  • April 5, 2026
Most companies call me when they needed to hire somebody as of yesterday. That part hasn’t changed. What has changed is this: AI is now sitting inside your hiring process…
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How to Create Instagrammable Interiors That Drive Sales

  • March 25, 2026
When I was 14, I was sketching an old opera house with my art tutor. That was the moment I realized a space can hold emotion the way a sponge…
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How to Start a Coffee Shop in 2026 - top trends
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How to Start a Coffee Shop in 2026: 5 Trends to Watch

  • March 24, 2026
A lot of people want to open a cafe because they love coffee, design, and the idea of community. I get it. I opened my first cafe for many of…
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Overcoming Startup Burnout
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Overcoming Startup Burnout: A Founder-to-Founder Guide

  • March 20, 2026
I hear founders talk about burnout all the time. Some say it openly. Some hide it inside polished updates. Some do not say it at all. I went through founder…
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How to Develop a Growth Mindset
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How to Develop a Growth Mindset to Reduce Failure Risk

  • March 14, 2026
People use the phrase growth mindset so loosely that it starts to mean almost nothing. I don’t find that helpful. If you are a bootstrapped founder, mindset has to earn…
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Reddit Marketing: How to Promote Without Getting Banned

  • February 4, 2026
One comment drove 10,000 orders. Steal the "aggressively neutral" Reddit framework to build traction without ads. Stop spamming and start selling.
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B2G Marketing Playbook
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The B2G Marketing Playbook for B2B Tech CMOs

  • November 26, 2025
How do you convert the government – the world’s toughest buyer – into your most predictable growth engine? Every month a CMO drops a note in my inbox that reads…
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Cash Flow Management Tips from Paperstack founders
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Cash Flow Management Tips for 7-Figure Ecomm Brands

  • November 12, 2025
I have still to meet a founder who doesn’t celebrate a big sales spike. I have also still to meet one who hasn’t stared at the bank account a week…
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  • Stripe’s Q2 2026 data: 63% of new startups are solo founders. An all-time high. Same data, second chart: the median solo founder’s first-six-month revenue is down 23%. The top 10% are up 19%. The gap between them is 61×, up from 34× in 2022. Here’s 5 things the founders pulling ahead do: 1. Ship before you’re ready 2. Go global on day one 3. Own a niche too small to fight over 4. Build the audience before the product 5. Obsess over retention Full story on byvi.co - link in bio. #solofounder #startups #buildinpublic #indiehackers #techfounders
  • Everyone tells early founders to chase the big city and the big round. Tom Pischel did the opposite: he stayed in Erin, Ontario (pop. 11,981) and built @localxp.ca a community map that shows you what’s actually going on in your town right now. His 4 lessons work in any market you actually live in: 1. Build for problems you inhabit 2. Let user behavior override your favorite feature 3. Target the market incumbents skip 4. Bootstrap for conviction The moat most startups miss is proximity. Read the full story on byvi.co (link in bio). #founderstory #bootstrapping #localbusinessmap #solofounder #startupstories
  • You can’t teach someone to start a startup. You learn it by doing. Paul Graham’s new essay makes a quietly radical case: the best prep for founders isn’t an “entrepreneurship” curriculum or a business plan competition. It’s getting genuinely good at building things, and building them out of real interest, not because you’re chasing a startup idea. #paulgraham #firsttimefounder #ycombinator #entrepreneurship #startupadvice
  • They told them to leave for San Francisco. They built it in Ottawa instead. Builders Collective started because a group of students kept watching sharp people get told the same thing: the opportunity is somewhere else. So instead of asking where to move, they asked why they couldn’t just build the community they wanted, right where they already were. Now it’s students shipping real products. An AI resume builder. A webring linking Ottawa’s builders. A farm robot with $225K in letters of intent. The advice isn’t wrong. 57% of U.S. venture dollars went to the Bay Area in 2024. Geography matters. But there’s a difference between “SF might be the best place to scale this” and “you can’t start until you’re in SF.” One is a strategy. The other keeps you in planning for years. Builders Collective proves that you don’t need an ecosystem’s permission to start. You can just build the ecosystem around you. Full story on byvi, link in bio #ottawatech #buildinpublic #studentfounders #startupcanada #builderscollective
  • A 2-month-old startup, with a garage for a factory, just reminded me how a company is actually supposed to start. Most founders build first and understand their customer later. This team at Tandem Robotics did the opposite. Take their farm robot away for maintenance, and farmers call asking how fast they can have it back. But the robot isn’t the story. It’s how these founders earned the right to build it, before they wrote a single line of code. There’s so much any early founder can steal here, no matter what you’re building. I broke it all down. Swipe to the end, the last slide is the part most founders learn too late. #robotics #organicfarming #startuplessons #farmrobotics #farmrobots
  • At @shopify Builder Sundays, we watched 8 builders demo what they made. The biggest takeaway? None of them waited for the perfect moment. They put something into the world before they had the answers. 👏👏👏 If you’re building in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto, this is a pretty powerful place to start. Full story on BYVI. Link in bio. #BuilderSundays #Shopify #OttawaTech #StartupLife #indiehackers
  • The POV you all been waiting for. Link in the bio for the full story. #ycstartupschool2026 #ycombinator #techstartups #ycstartupschool #yc
  • 90% of tech startups fail, and the odds only get tighter when you try to cross borders. The founders who break out almost always find international revenue early. Megha Kandoi shares a 12-month playbook for global expansion for startups on a small budget: 1. Pilot where the pain is sharpest, not where the GDP is largest 2. Use “bridge markets” (Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, Germany) to de-risk the leap 3. Borrow distribution through accelerators and channel partners before you buy it 4. Build remote-first with Employer-of-Record tools like Deel or Remote 5. Stack free infrastructure: grants, trade commissioners, credit insurance About Megha: Supported 1,200+ startups at MaRS. Leads @techtoorg - Canada’s largest and most connected tech community. Has scaled companies across North America, Europe, India, and Australia. Read the full playbook at the link in bio. #globalexpansion #internationalexpansion #scalingstartups #bootstrapping #techstartups
  • The hardest part of building a startup is never the part you plan for. Kalanick’s $1.7B robot kitchen can build 300 bowls an hour, until it has to bag them. Then it drops to 200. A floppy plastic bag beats a machine that weighs food to the gram. That’s the “fries in the bag” problem: the boring step you already handed off, assuming it would sort itself out. It’s usually the one that costs you. Daniel Zhao (Head of Finance at Landbase, previously co-founder of LavaReach) on the friction nobody puts on a slide. Link in our bio to the full article. #scalingstartups #traviskalanick #startupadvice #robotics #foundermindset
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Stripe’s Q2 2026 data: 63% of new startups are solo founders. An all-time high. Same data, second chart: the median solo founder’s first-six-month revenue is down 23%. The top 10% are up 19%. The gap between them is 61×, up from 34× in 2022. Here’s 5 things the founders pulling ahead do: 1. Ship before you’re ready 2. Go global on day one 3. Own a niche too small to fight over 4. Build the audience before the product 5. Obsess over retention Full story on byvi.co - link in bio. #solofounder #startups #buildinpublic #indiehackers #techfounders
Stripe’s Q2 2026 data: 63% of new startups are solo founders. An all-time high. Same data, second chart: the median solo founder’s first-six-month revenue is down 23%. The top 10% are up 19%. The gap between them is 61×, up from 34× in 2022. Here’s 5 things the founders pulling ahead do: 1. Ship before you’re ready 2. Go global on day one 3. Own a niche too small to fight over 4. Build the audience before the product 5. Obsess over retention Full story on byvi.co - link in bio. #solofounder #startups #buildinpublic #indiehackers #techfounders
Stripe’s Q2 2026 data: 63% of new startups are solo founders. An all-time high. Same data, second chart: the median solo founder’s first-six-month revenue is down 23%. The top 10% are up 19%. The gap between them is 61×, up from 34× in 2022. Here’s 5 things the founders pulling ahead do: 1. Ship before you’re ready 2. Go global on day one 3. Own a niche too small to fight over 4. Build the audience before the product 5. Obsess over retention Full story on byvi.co - link in bio. #solofounder #startups #buildinpublic #indiehackers #techfounders
Stripe’s Q2 2026 data: 63% of new startups are solo founders. An all-time high. Same data, second chart: the median solo founder’s first-six-month revenue is down 23%. The top 10% are up 19%. The gap between them is 61×, up from 34× in 2022. Here’s 5 things the founders pulling ahead do: 1. Ship before you’re ready 2. Go global on day one 3. Own a niche too small to fight over 4. Build the audience before the product 5. Obsess over retention Full story on byvi.co - link in bio. #solofounder #startups #buildinpublic #indiehackers #techfounders
Stripe’s Q2 2026 data: 63% of new startups are solo founders. An all-time high. Same data, second chart: the median solo founder’s first-six-month revenue is down 23%. The top 10% are up 19%. The gap between them is 61×, up from 34× in 2022. Here’s 5 things the founders pulling ahead do: 1. Ship before you’re ready 2. Go global on day one 3. Own a niche too small to fight over 4. Build the audience before the product 5. Obsess over retention Full story on byvi.co - link in bio. #solofounder #startups #buildinpublic #indiehackers #techfounders
Stripe’s Q2 2026 data: 63% of new startups are solo founders. An all-time high. Same data, second chart: the median solo founder’s first-six-month revenue is down 23%. The top 10% are up 19%. The gap between them is 61×, up from 34× in 2022. Here’s 5 things the founders pulling ahead do: 1. Ship before you’re ready 2. Go global on day one 3. Own a niche too small to fight over 4. Build the audience before the product 5. Obsess over retention Full story on byvi.co - link in bio. #solofounder #startups #buildinpublic #indiehackers #techfounders
Stripe’s Q2 2026 data: 63% of new startups are solo founders. An all-time high. Same data, second chart: the median solo founder’s first-six-month revenue is down 23%. The top 10% are up 19%. The gap between them is 61×, up from 34× in 2022. Here’s 5 things the founders pulling ahead do: 1. Ship before you’re ready 2. Go global on day one 3. Own a niche too small to fight over 4. Build the audience before the product 5. Obsess over retention Full story on byvi.co - link in bio. #solofounder #startups #buildinpublic #indiehackers #techfounders
Stripe’s Q2 2026 data: 63% of new startups are solo founders. An all-time high. Same data, second chart: the median solo founder’s first-six-month revenue is down 23%. The top 10% are up 19%. The gap between them is 61×, up from 34× in 2022. Here’s 5 things the founders pulling ahead do: 1. Ship before you’re ready 2. Go global on day one 3. Own a niche too small to fight over 4. Build the audience before the product 5. Obsess over retention Full story on byvi.co - link in bio. #solofounder #startups #buildinpublic #indiehackers #techfounders
Stripe’s Q2 2026 data: 63% of new startups are solo founders. An all-time high. Same data, second chart: the median solo founder’s first-six-month revenue is down 23%. The top 10% are up 19%. The gap between them is 61×, up from 34× in 2022. Here’s 5 things the founders pulling ahead do: 1. Ship before you’re ready 2. Go global on day one 3. Own a niche too small to fight over 4. Build the audience before the product 5. Obsess over retention Full story on byvi.co - link in bio. #solofounder #startups #buildinpublic #indiehackers #techfounders
Stripe’s Q2 2026 data: 63% of new startups are solo founders. An all-time high. Same data, second chart: the median solo founder’s first-six-month revenue is down 23%. The top 10% are up 19%. The gap between them is 61×, up from 34× in 2022. Here’s 5 things the founders pulling ahead do: 1. Ship before you’re ready 2. Go global on day one 3. Own a niche too small to fight over 4. Build the audience before the product 5. Obsess over retention Full story on byvi.co - link in bio. #solofounder #startups #buildinpublic #indiehackers #techfounders
Stripe’s Q2 2026 data: 63% of new startups are solo founders. An all-time high. Same data, second chart: the median solo founder’s first-six-month revenue is down 23%. The top 10% are up 19%. The gap between them is 61×, up from 34× in 2022. Here’s 5 things the founders pulling ahead do: 1. Ship before you’re ready 2. Go global on day one 3. Own a niche too small to fight over 4. Build the audience before the product 5. Obsess over retention Full story on byvi.co - link in bio. #solofounder #startups #buildinpublic #indiehackers #techfounders
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Stripe’s Q2 2026 data: 63% of new startups are solo founders. An all-time high. Same data, second chart: the median solo founder’s first-six-month revenue is down 23%. The top 10% are up 19%. The gap between them is 61×, up from 34× in 2022. Here’s 5 things the founders pulling ahead do: 1. Ship before you’re ready 2. Go global on day one 3. Own a niche too small to fight over 4. Build the audience before the product 5. Obsess over retention Full story on byvi.co - link in bio. #solofounder #startups #buildinpublic #indiehackers #techfounders
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Everyone tells early founders to chase the big city and the big round. Tom Pischel did the opposite: he stayed in Erin, Ontario (pop. 11,981) and built @localxp.ca a community map that shows you what’s actually going on in your town right now. His 4 lessons work in any market you actually live in: 1. Build for problems you inhabit 2. Let user behavior override your favorite feature 3. Target the market incumbents skip 4. Bootstrap for conviction The moat most startups miss is proximity. Read the full story on byvi.co (link in bio). #founderstory #bootstrapping #localbusinessmap #solofounder #startupstories
Everyone tells early founders to chase the big city and the big round. Tom Pischel did the opposite: he stayed in Erin, Ontario (pop. 11,981) and built @localxp.ca a community map that shows you what’s actually going on in your town right now. His 4 lessons work in any market you actually live in: 1. Build for problems you inhabit 2. Let user behavior override your favorite feature 3. Target the market incumbents skip 4. Bootstrap for conviction The moat most startups miss is proximity. Read the full story on byvi.co (link in bio). #founderstory #bootstrapping #localbusinessmap #solofounder #startupstories
Everyone tells early founders to chase the big city and the big round. Tom Pischel did the opposite: he stayed in Erin, Ontario (pop. 11,981) and built @localxp.ca a community map that shows you what’s actually going on in your town right now. His 4 lessons work in any market you actually live in: 1. Build for problems you inhabit 2. Let user behavior override your favorite feature 3. Target the market incumbents skip 4. Bootstrap for conviction The moat most startups miss is proximity. Read the full story on byvi.co (link in bio). #founderstory #bootstrapping #localbusinessmap #solofounder #startupstories
Everyone tells early founders to chase the big city and the big round. Tom Pischel did the opposite: he stayed in Erin, Ontario (pop. 11,981) and built @localxp.ca a community map that shows you what’s actually going on in your town right now. His 4 lessons work in any market you actually live in: 1. Build for problems you inhabit 2. Let user behavior override your favorite feature 3. Target the market incumbents skip 4. Bootstrap for conviction The moat most startups miss is proximity. Read the full story on byvi.co (link in bio). #founderstory #bootstrapping #localbusinessmap #solofounder #startupstories
Everyone tells early founders to chase the big city and the big round. Tom Pischel did the opposite: he stayed in Erin, Ontario (pop. 11,981) and built @localxp.ca a community map that shows you what’s actually going on in your town right now. His 4 lessons work in any market you actually live in: 1. Build for problems you inhabit 2. Let user behavior override your favorite feature 3. Target the market incumbents skip 4. Bootstrap for conviction The moat most startups miss is proximity. Read the full story on byvi.co (link in bio). #founderstory #bootstrapping #localbusinessmap #solofounder #startupstories
Everyone tells early founders to chase the big city and the big round. Tom Pischel did the opposite: he stayed in Erin, Ontario (pop. 11,981) and built @localxp.ca a community map that shows you what’s actually going on in your town right now. His 4 lessons work in any market you actually live in: 1. Build for problems you inhabit 2. Let user behavior override your favorite feature 3. Target the market incumbents skip 4. Bootstrap for conviction The moat most startups miss is proximity. Read the full story on byvi.co (link in bio). #founderstory #bootstrapping #localbusinessmap #solofounder #startupstories
Everyone tells early founders to chase the big city and the big round. Tom Pischel did the opposite: he stayed in Erin, Ontario (pop. 11,981) and built @localxp.ca a community map that shows you what’s actually going on in your town right now. His 4 lessons work in any market you actually live in: 1. Build for problems you inhabit 2. Let user behavior override your favorite feature 3. Target the market incumbents skip 4. Bootstrap for conviction The moat most startups miss is proximity. Read the full story on byvi.co (link in bio). #founderstory #bootstrapping #localbusinessmap #solofounder #startupstories
Everyone tells early founders to chase the big city and the big round. Tom Pischel did the opposite: he stayed in Erin, Ontario (pop. 11,981) and built @localxp.ca a community map that shows you what’s actually going on in your town right now. His 4 lessons work in any market you actually live in: 1. Build for problems you inhabit 2. Let user behavior override your favorite feature 3. Target the market incumbents skip 4. Bootstrap for conviction The moat most startups miss is proximity. Read the full story on byvi.co (link in bio). #founderstory #bootstrapping #localbusinessmap #solofounder #startupstories
Everyone tells early founders to chase the big city and the big round. Tom Pischel did the opposite: he stayed in Erin, Ontario (pop. 11,981) and built @localxp.ca a community map that shows you what’s actually going on in your town right now. His 4 lessons work in any market you actually live in: 1. Build for problems you inhabit 2. Let user behavior override your favorite feature 3. Target the market incumbents skip 4. Bootstrap for conviction The moat most startups miss is proximity. Read the full story on byvi.co (link in bio). #founderstory #bootstrapping #localbusinessmap #solofounder #startupstories
Everyone tells early founders to chase the big city and the big round. Tom Pischel did the opposite: he stayed in Erin, Ontario (pop. 11,981) and built @localxp.ca a community map that shows you what’s actually going on in your town right now. His 4 lessons work in any market you actually live in: 1. Build for problems you inhabit 2. Let user behavior override your favorite feature 3. Target the market incumbents skip 4. Bootstrap for conviction The moat most startups miss is proximity. Read the full story on byvi.co (link in bio). #founderstory #bootstrapping #localbusinessmap #solofounder #startupstories
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Everyone tells early founders to chase the big city and the big round. Tom Pischel did the opposite: he stayed in Erin, Ontario (pop. 11,981) and built @localxp.ca a community map that shows you what’s actually going on in your town right now. His 4 lessons work in any market you actually live in: 1. Build for problems you inhabit 2. Let user behavior override your favorite feature 3. Target the market incumbents skip 4. Bootstrap for conviction The moat most startups miss is proximity. Read the full story on byvi.co (link in bio). #founderstory #bootstrapping #localbusinessmap #solofounder #startupstories
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You can’t teach someone to start a startup. You learn it by doing. Paul Graham’s new essay makes a quietly radical case: the best prep for founders isn’t an “entrepreneurship” curriculum or a business plan competition. It’s getting genuinely good at building things, and building them out of real interest, not because you’re chasing a startup idea. #paulgraham #firsttimefounder #ycombinator #entrepreneurship #startupadvice
You can’t teach someone to start a startup. You learn it by doing. Paul Graham’s new essay makes a quietly radical case: the best prep for founders isn’t an “entrepreneurship” curriculum or a business plan competition. It’s getting genuinely good at building things, and building them out of real interest, not because you’re chasing a startup idea. #paulgraham #firsttimefounder #ycombinator #entrepreneurship #startupadvice
You can’t teach someone to start a startup. You learn it by doing. Paul Graham’s new essay makes a quietly radical case: the best prep for founders isn’t an “entrepreneurship” curriculum or a business plan competition. It’s getting genuinely good at building things, and building them out of real interest, not because you’re chasing a startup idea. #paulgraham #firsttimefounder #ycombinator #entrepreneurship #startupadvice
You can’t teach someone to start a startup. You learn it by doing. Paul Graham’s new essay makes a quietly radical case: the best prep for founders isn’t an “entrepreneurship” curriculum or a business plan competition. It’s getting genuinely good at building things, and building them out of real interest, not because you’re chasing a startup idea. #paulgraham #firsttimefounder #ycombinator #entrepreneurship #startupadvice
You can’t teach someone to start a startup. You learn it by doing. Paul Graham’s new essay makes a quietly radical case: the best prep for founders isn’t an “entrepreneurship” curriculum or a business plan competition. It’s getting genuinely good at building things, and building them out of real interest, not because you’re chasing a startup idea. #paulgraham #firsttimefounder #ycombinator #entrepreneurship #startupadvice
You can’t teach someone to start a startup. You learn it by doing. Paul Graham’s new essay makes a quietly radical case: the best prep for founders isn’t an “entrepreneurship” curriculum or a business plan competition. It’s getting genuinely good at building things, and building them out of real interest, not because you’re chasing a startup idea. #paulgraham #firsttimefounder #ycombinator #entrepreneurship #startupadvice
You can’t teach someone to start a startup. You learn it by doing. Paul Graham’s new essay makes a quietly radical case: the best prep for founders isn’t an “entrepreneurship” curriculum or a business plan competition. It’s getting genuinely good at building things, and building them out of real interest, not because you’re chasing a startup idea. #paulgraham #firsttimefounder #ycombinator #entrepreneurship #startupadvice
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You can’t teach someone to start a startup. You learn it by doing. Paul Graham’s new essay makes a quietly radical case: the best prep for founders isn’t an “entrepreneurship” curriculum or a business plan competition. It’s getting genuinely good at building things, and building them out of real interest, not because you’re chasing a startup idea. #paulgraham #firsttimefounder #ycombinator #entrepreneurship #startupadvice
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They told them to leave for San Francisco. They built it in Ottawa instead. Builders Collective started because a group of students kept watching sharp people get told the same thing: the opportunity is somewhere else. So instead of asking where to move, they asked why they couldn’t just build the community they wanted, right where they already were. Now it’s students shipping real products. An AI resume builder. A webring linking Ottawa’s builders. A farm robot with $225K in letters of intent. The advice isn’t wrong. 57% of U.S. venture dollars went to the Bay Area in 2024. Geography matters. But there’s a difference between “SF might be the best place to scale this” and “you can’t start until you’re in SF.” One is a strategy. The other keeps you in planning for years. Builders Collective proves that you don’t need an ecosystem’s permission to start. You can just build the ecosystem around you. Full story on byvi, link in bio #ottawatech #buildinpublic #studentfounders #startupcanada #builderscollective
They told them to leave for San Francisco. They built it in Ottawa instead. Builders Collective started because a group of students kept watching sharp people get told the same thing: the opportunity is somewhere else. So instead of asking where to move, they asked why they couldn’t just build the community they wanted, right where they already were. Now it’s students shipping real products. An AI resume builder. A webring linking Ottawa’s builders. A farm robot with $225K in letters of intent. The advice isn’t wrong. 57% of U.S. venture dollars went to the Bay Area in 2024. Geography matters. But there’s a difference between “SF might be the best place to scale this” and “you can’t start until you’re in SF.” One is a strategy. The other keeps you in planning for years. Builders Collective proves that you don’t need an ecosystem’s permission to start. You can just build the ecosystem around you. Full story on byvi, link in bio #ottawatech #buildinpublic #studentfounders #startupcanada #builderscollective
They told them to leave for San Francisco. They built it in Ottawa instead. Builders Collective started because a group of students kept watching sharp people get told the same thing: the opportunity is somewhere else. So instead of asking where to move, they asked why they couldn’t just build the community they wanted, right where they already were. Now it’s students shipping real products. An AI resume builder. A webring linking Ottawa’s builders. A farm robot with $225K in letters of intent. The advice isn’t wrong. 57% of U.S. venture dollars went to the Bay Area in 2024. Geography matters. But there’s a difference between “SF might be the best place to scale this” and “you can’t start until you’re in SF.” One is a strategy. The other keeps you in planning for years. Builders Collective proves that you don’t need an ecosystem’s permission to start. You can just build the ecosystem around you. Full story on byvi, link in bio #ottawatech #buildinpublic #studentfounders #startupcanada #builderscollective
They told them to leave for San Francisco. They built it in Ottawa instead. Builders Collective started because a group of students kept watching sharp people get told the same thing: the opportunity is somewhere else. So instead of asking where to move, they asked why they couldn’t just build the community they wanted, right where they already were. Now it’s students shipping real products. An AI resume builder. A webring linking Ottawa’s builders. A farm robot with $225K in letters of intent. The advice isn’t wrong. 57% of U.S. venture dollars went to the Bay Area in 2024. Geography matters. But there’s a difference between “SF might be the best place to scale this” and “you can’t start until you’re in SF.” One is a strategy. The other keeps you in planning for years. Builders Collective proves that you don’t need an ecosystem’s permission to start. You can just build the ecosystem around you. Full story on byvi, link in bio #ottawatech #buildinpublic #studentfounders #startupcanada #builderscollective
They told them to leave for San Francisco. They built it in Ottawa instead. Builders Collective started because a group of students kept watching sharp people get told the same thing: the opportunity is somewhere else. So instead of asking where to move, they asked why they couldn’t just build the community they wanted, right where they already were. Now it’s students shipping real products. An AI resume builder. A webring linking Ottawa’s builders. A farm robot with $225K in letters of intent. The advice isn’t wrong. 57% of U.S. venture dollars went to the Bay Area in 2024. Geography matters. But there’s a difference between “SF might be the best place to scale this” and “you can’t start until you’re in SF.” One is a strategy. The other keeps you in planning for years. Builders Collective proves that you don’t need an ecosystem’s permission to start. You can just build the ecosystem around you. Full story on byvi, link in bio #ottawatech #buildinpublic #studentfounders #startupcanada #builderscollective
They told them to leave for San Francisco. They built it in Ottawa instead. Builders Collective started because a group of students kept watching sharp people get told the same thing: the opportunity is somewhere else. So instead of asking where to move, they asked why they couldn’t just build the community they wanted, right where they already were. Now it’s students shipping real products. An AI resume builder. A webring linking Ottawa’s builders. A farm robot with $225K in letters of intent. The advice isn’t wrong. 57% of U.S. venture dollars went to the Bay Area in 2024. Geography matters. But there’s a difference between “SF might be the best place to scale this” and “you can’t start until you’re in SF.” One is a strategy. The other keeps you in planning for years. Builders Collective proves that you don’t need an ecosystem’s permission to start. You can just build the ecosystem around you. Full story on byvi, link in bio #ottawatech #buildinpublic #studentfounders #startupcanada #builderscollective
They told them to leave for San Francisco. They built it in Ottawa instead. Builders Collective started because a group of students kept watching sharp people get told the same thing: the opportunity is somewhere else. So instead of asking where to move, they asked why they couldn’t just build the community they wanted, right where they already were. Now it’s students shipping real products. An AI resume builder. A webring linking Ottawa’s builders. A farm robot with $225K in letters of intent. The advice isn’t wrong. 57% of U.S. venture dollars went to the Bay Area in 2024. Geography matters. But there’s a difference between “SF might be the best place to scale this” and “you can’t start until you’re in SF.” One is a strategy. The other keeps you in planning for years. Builders Collective proves that you don’t need an ecosystem’s permission to start. You can just build the ecosystem around you. Full story on byvi, link in bio #ottawatech #buildinpublic #studentfounders #startupcanada #builderscollective
They told them to leave for San Francisco. They built it in Ottawa instead. Builders Collective started because a group of students kept watching sharp people get told the same thing: the opportunity is somewhere else. So instead of asking where to move, they asked why they couldn’t just build the community they wanted, right where they already were. Now it’s students shipping real products. An AI resume builder. A webring linking Ottawa’s builders. A farm robot with $225K in letters of intent. The advice isn’t wrong. 57% of U.S. venture dollars went to the Bay Area in 2024. Geography matters. But there’s a difference between “SF might be the best place to scale this” and “you can’t start until you’re in SF.” One is a strategy. The other keeps you in planning for years. Builders Collective proves that you don’t need an ecosystem’s permission to start. You can just build the ecosystem around you. Full story on byvi, link in bio #ottawatech #buildinpublic #studentfounders #startupcanada #builderscollective
They told them to leave for San Francisco. They built it in Ottawa instead. Builders Collective started because a group of students kept watching sharp people get told the same thing: the opportunity is somewhere else. So instead of asking where to move, they asked why they couldn’t just build the community they wanted, right where they already were. Now it’s students shipping real products. An AI resume builder. A webring linking Ottawa’s builders. A farm robot with $225K in letters of intent. The advice isn’t wrong. 57% of U.S. venture dollars went to the Bay Area in 2024. Geography matters. But there’s a difference between “SF might be the best place to scale this” and “you can’t start until you’re in SF.” One is a strategy. The other keeps you in planning for years. Builders Collective proves that you don’t need an ecosystem’s permission to start. You can just build the ecosystem around you. Full story on byvi, link in bio #ottawatech #buildinpublic #studentfounders #startupcanada #builderscollective
They told them to leave for San Francisco. They built it in Ottawa instead. Builders Collective started because a group of students kept watching sharp people get told the same thing: the opportunity is somewhere else. So instead of asking where to move, they asked why they couldn’t just build the community they wanted, right where they already were. Now it’s students shipping real products. An AI resume builder. A webring linking Ottawa’s builders. A farm robot with $225K in letters of intent. The advice isn’t wrong. 57% of U.S. venture dollars went to the Bay Area in 2024. Geography matters. But there’s a difference between “SF might be the best place to scale this” and “you can’t start until you’re in SF.” One is a strategy. The other keeps you in planning for years. Builders Collective proves that you don’t need an ecosystem’s permission to start. You can just build the ecosystem around you. Full story on byvi, link in bio #ottawatech #buildinpublic #studentfounders #startupcanada #builderscollective
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They told them to leave for San Francisco. They built it in Ottawa instead. Builders Collective started because a group of students kept watching sharp people get told the same thing: the opportunity is somewhere else. So instead of asking where to move, they asked why they couldn’t just build the community they wanted, right where they already were. Now it’s students shipping real products. An AI resume builder. A webring linking Ottawa’s builders. A farm robot with $225K in letters of intent. The advice isn’t wrong. 57% of U.S. venture dollars went to the Bay Area in 2024. Geography matters. But there’s a difference between “SF might be the best place to scale this” and “you can’t start until you’re in SF.” One is a strategy. The other keeps you in planning for years. Builders Collective proves that you don’t need an ecosystem’s permission to start. You can just build the ecosystem around you. Full story on byvi, link in bio #ottawatech #buildinpublic #studentfounders #startupcanada #builderscollective
2 weeks ago
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A 2-month-old startup, with a garage for a factory, just reminded me how a company is actually supposed to start. Most founders build first and understand their customer later. This team at Tandem Robotics did the opposite. Take their farm robot away for maintenance, and farmers call asking how fast they can have it back. But the robot isn’t the story. It’s how these founders earned the right to build it, before they wrote a single line of code. There’s so much any early founder can steal here, no matter what you’re building. I broke it all down. Swipe to the end, the last slide is the part most founders learn too late. #robotics #organicfarming #startuplessons #farmrobotics #farmrobots
A 2-month-old startup, with a garage for a factory, just reminded me how a company is actually supposed to start. Most founders build first and understand their customer later. This team at Tandem Robotics did the opposite. Take their farm robot away for maintenance, and farmers call asking how fast they can have it back. But the robot isn’t the story. It’s how these founders earned the right to build it, before they wrote a single line of code. There’s so much any early founder can steal here, no matter what you’re building. I broke it all down. Swipe to the end, the last slide is the part most founders learn too late. #robotics #organicfarming #startuplessons #farmrobotics #farmrobots
A 2-month-old startup, with a garage for a factory, just reminded me how a company is actually supposed to start. Most founders build first and understand their customer later. This team at Tandem Robotics did the opposite. Take their farm robot away for maintenance, and farmers call asking how fast they can have it back. But the robot isn’t the story. It’s how these founders earned the right to build it, before they wrote a single line of code. There’s so much any early founder can steal here, no matter what you’re building. I broke it all down. Swipe to the end, the last slide is the part most founders learn too late. #robotics #organicfarming #startuplessons #farmrobotics #farmrobots
A 2-month-old startup, with a garage for a factory, just reminded me how a company is actually supposed to start. Most founders build first and understand their customer later. This team at Tandem Robotics did the opposite. Take their farm robot away for maintenance, and farmers call asking how fast they can have it back. But the robot isn’t the story. It’s how these founders earned the right to build it, before they wrote a single line of code. There’s so much any early founder can steal here, no matter what you’re building. I broke it all down. Swipe to the end, the last slide is the part most founders learn too late. #robotics #organicfarming #startuplessons #farmrobotics #farmrobots
A 2-month-old startup, with a garage for a factory, just reminded me how a company is actually supposed to start. Most founders build first and understand their customer later. This team at Tandem Robotics did the opposite. Take their farm robot away for maintenance, and farmers call asking how fast they can have it back. But the robot isn’t the story. It’s how these founders earned the right to build it, before they wrote a single line of code. There’s so much any early founder can steal here, no matter what you’re building. I broke it all down. Swipe to the end, the last slide is the part most founders learn too late. #robotics #organicfarming #startuplessons #farmrobotics #farmrobots
A 2-month-old startup, with a garage for a factory, just reminded me how a company is actually supposed to start. Most founders build first and understand their customer later. This team at Tandem Robotics did the opposite. Take their farm robot away for maintenance, and farmers call asking how fast they can have it back. But the robot isn’t the story. It’s how these founders earned the right to build it, before they wrote a single line of code. There’s so much any early founder can steal here, no matter what you’re building. I broke it all down. Swipe to the end, the last slide is the part most founders learn too late. #robotics #organicfarming #startuplessons #farmrobotics #farmrobots
A 2-month-old startup, with a garage for a factory, just reminded me how a company is actually supposed to start. Most founders build first and understand their customer later. This team at Tandem Robotics did the opposite. Take their farm robot away for maintenance, and farmers call asking how fast they can have it back. But the robot isn’t the story. It’s how these founders earned the right to build it, before they wrote a single line of code. There’s so much any early founder can steal here, no matter what you’re building. I broke it all down. Swipe to the end, the last slide is the part most founders learn too late. #robotics #organicfarming #startuplessons #farmrobotics #farmrobots
A 2-month-old startup, with a garage for a factory, just reminded me how a company is actually supposed to start. Most founders build first and understand their customer later. This team at Tandem Robotics did the opposite. Take their farm robot away for maintenance, and farmers call asking how fast they can have it back. But the robot isn’t the story. It’s how these founders earned the right to build it, before they wrote a single line of code. There’s so much any early founder can steal here, no matter what you’re building. I broke it all down. Swipe to the end, the last slide is the part most founders learn too late. #robotics #organicfarming #startuplessons #farmrobotics #farmrobots
A 2-month-old startup, with a garage for a factory, just reminded me how a company is actually supposed to start. Most founders build first and understand their customer later. This team at Tandem Robotics did the opposite. Take their farm robot away for maintenance, and farmers call asking how fast they can have it back. But the robot isn’t the story. It’s how these founders earned the right to build it, before they wrote a single line of code. There’s so much any early founder can steal here, no matter what you’re building. I broke it all down. Swipe to the end, the last slide is the part most founders learn too late. #robotics #organicfarming #startuplessons #farmrobotics #farmrobots
A 2-month-old startup, with a garage for a factory, just reminded me how a company is actually supposed to start. Most founders build first and understand their customer later. This team at Tandem Robotics did the opposite. Take their farm robot away for maintenance, and farmers call asking how fast they can have it back. But the robot isn’t the story. It’s how these founders earned the right to build it, before they wrote a single line of code. There’s so much any early founder can steal here, no matter what you’re building. I broke it all down. Swipe to the end, the last slide is the part most founders learn too late. #robotics #organicfarming #startuplessons #farmrobotics #farmrobots
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A 2-month-old startup, with a garage for a factory, just reminded me how a company is actually supposed to start. Most founders build first and understand their customer later. This team at Tandem Robotics did the opposite. Take their farm robot away for maintenance, and farmers call asking how fast they can have it back. But the robot isn’t the story. It’s how these founders earned the right to build it, before they wrote a single line of code. There’s so much any early founder can steal here, no matter what you’re building. I broke it all down. Swipe to the end, the last slide is the part most founders learn too late. #robotics #organicfarming #startuplessons #farmrobotics #farmrobots
3 weeks ago
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At @shopify Builder Sundays, we watched 8 builders demo what they made. The biggest takeaway? None of them waited for the perfect moment. They put something into the world before they had the answers. 👏👏👏 If you’re building in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto, this is a pretty powerful place to start. Full story on BYVI. Link in bio. #BuilderSundays #Shopify #OttawaTech #StartupLife #indiehackers
At @shopify Builder Sundays, we watched 8 builders demo what they made. The biggest takeaway? None of them waited for the perfect moment. They put something into the world before they had the answers. 👏👏👏 If you’re building in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto, this is a pretty powerful place to start. Full story on BYVI. Link in bio. #BuilderSundays #Shopify #OttawaTech #StartupLife #indiehackers
At @shopify Builder Sundays, we watched 8 builders demo what they made. The biggest takeaway? None of them waited for the perfect moment. They put something into the world before they had the answers. 👏👏👏 If you’re building in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto, this is a pretty powerful place to start. Full story on BYVI. Link in bio. #BuilderSundays #Shopify #OttawaTech #StartupLife #indiehackers
At @shopify Builder Sundays, we watched 8 builders demo what they made. The biggest takeaway? None of them waited for the perfect moment. They put something into the world before they had the answers. 👏👏👏 If you’re building in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto, this is a pretty powerful place to start. Full story on BYVI. Link in bio. #BuilderSundays #Shopify #OttawaTech #StartupLife #indiehackers
At @shopify Builder Sundays, we watched 8 builders demo what they made. The biggest takeaway? None of them waited for the perfect moment. They put something into the world before they had the answers. 👏👏👏 If you’re building in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto, this is a pretty powerful place to start. Full story on BYVI. Link in bio. #BuilderSundays #Shopify #OttawaTech #StartupLife #indiehackers
At @shopify Builder Sundays, we watched 8 builders demo what they made. The biggest takeaway? None of them waited for the perfect moment. They put something into the world before they had the answers. 👏👏👏 If you’re building in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto, this is a pretty powerful place to start. Full story on BYVI. Link in bio. #BuilderSundays #Shopify #OttawaTech #StartupLife #indiehackers
At @shopify Builder Sundays, we watched 8 builders demo what they made. The biggest takeaway? None of them waited for the perfect moment. They put something into the world before they had the answers. 👏👏👏 If you’re building in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto, this is a pretty powerful place to start. Full story on BYVI. Link in bio. #BuilderSundays #Shopify #OttawaTech #StartupLife #indiehackers
At @shopify Builder Sundays, we watched 8 builders demo what they made. The biggest takeaway? None of them waited for the perfect moment. They put something into the world before they had the answers. 👏👏👏 If you’re building in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto, this is a pretty powerful place to start. Full story on BYVI. Link in bio. #BuilderSundays #Shopify #OttawaTech #StartupLife #indiehackers
At @shopify Builder Sundays, we watched 8 builders demo what they made. The biggest takeaway? None of them waited for the perfect moment. They put something into the world before they had the answers. 👏👏👏 If you’re building in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto, this is a pretty powerful place to start. Full story on BYVI. Link in bio. #BuilderSundays #Shopify #OttawaTech #StartupLife #indiehackers
At @shopify Builder Sundays, we watched 8 builders demo what they made. The biggest takeaway? None of them waited for the perfect moment. They put something into the world before they had the answers. 👏👏👏 If you’re building in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto, this is a pretty powerful place to start. Full story on BYVI. Link in bio. #BuilderSundays #Shopify #OttawaTech #StartupLife #indiehackers
At @shopify Builder Sundays, we watched 8 builders demo what they made. The biggest takeaway? None of them waited for the perfect moment. They put something into the world before they had the answers. 👏👏👏 If you’re building in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto, this is a pretty powerful place to start. Full story on BYVI. Link in bio. #BuilderSundays #Shopify #OttawaTech #StartupLife #indiehackers
At @shopify Builder Sundays, we watched 8 builders demo what they made. The biggest takeaway? None of them waited for the perfect moment. They put something into the world before they had the answers. 👏👏👏 If you’re building in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto, this is a pretty powerful place to start. Full story on BYVI. Link in bio. #BuilderSundays #Shopify #OttawaTech #StartupLife #indiehackers
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At @shopify Builder Sundays, we watched 8 builders demo what they made. The biggest takeaway? None of them waited for the perfect moment. They put something into the world before they had the answers. 👏👏👏 If you’re building in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto, this is a pretty powerful place to start. Full story on BYVI. Link in bio. #BuilderSundays #Shopify #OttawaTech #StartupLife #indiehackers
4 weeks ago
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The POV you all been waiting for. Link in the bio for the full story. #ycstartupschool2026 #ycombinator #techstartups #ycstartupschool #yc
The POV you all been waiting for. Link in the bio for the full story. #ycstartupschool2026 #ycombinator #techstartups #ycstartupschool #yc
The POV you all been waiting for. Link in the bio for the full story. #ycstartupschool2026 #ycombinator #techstartups #ycstartupschool #yc
The POV you all been waiting for. Link in the bio for the full story. #ycstartupschool2026 #ycombinator #techstartups #ycstartupschool #yc
The POV you all been waiting for. Link in the bio for the full story. #ycstartupschool2026 #ycombinator #techstartups #ycstartupschool #yc
The POV you all been waiting for. Link in the bio for the full story. #ycstartupschool2026 #ycombinator #techstartups #ycstartupschool #yc
The POV you all been waiting for. Link in the bio for the full story. #ycstartupschool2026 #ycombinator #techstartups #ycstartupschool #yc
The POV you all been waiting for. Link in the bio for the full story. #ycstartupschool2026 #ycombinator #techstartups #ycstartupschool #yc
The POV you all been waiting for. Link in the bio for the full story. #ycstartupschool2026 #ycombinator #techstartups #ycstartupschool #yc
The POV you all been waiting for. Link in the bio for the full story. #ycstartupschool2026 #ycombinator #techstartups #ycstartupschool #yc
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90% of tech startups fail, and the odds only get tighter when you try to cross borders. The founders who break out almost always find international revenue early. Megha Kandoi shares a 12-month playbook for global expansion for startups on a small budget: 1. Pilot where the pain is sharpest, not where the GDP is largest 2. Use “bridge markets” (Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, Germany) to de-risk the leap 3. Borrow distribution through accelerators and channel partners before you buy it 4. Build remote-first with Employer-of-Record tools like Deel or Remote 5. Stack free infrastructure: grants, trade commissioners, credit insurance About Megha: Supported 1,200+ startups at MaRS. Leads @techtoorg - Canada’s largest and most connected tech community. Has scaled companies across North America, Europe, India, and Australia. Read the full playbook at the link in bio. #globalexpansion #internationalexpansion #scalingstartups #bootstrapping #techstartups
90% of tech startups fail, and the odds only get tighter when you try to cross borders. The founders who break out almost always find international revenue early. Megha Kandoi shares a 12-month playbook for global expansion for startups on a small budget: 1. Pilot where the pain is sharpest, not where the GDP is largest 2. Use “bridge markets” (Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, Germany) to de-risk the leap 3. Borrow distribution through accelerators and channel partners before you buy it 4. Build remote-first with Employer-of-Record tools like Deel or Remote 5. Stack free infrastructure: grants, trade commissioners, credit insurance About Megha: Supported 1,200+ startups at MaRS. Leads @techtoorg - Canada’s largest and most connected tech community. Has scaled companies across North America, Europe, India, and Australia. Read the full playbook at the link in bio. #globalexpansion #internationalexpansion #scalingstartups #bootstrapping #techstartups
90% of tech startups fail, and the odds only get tighter when you try to cross borders. The founders who break out almost always find international revenue early. Megha Kandoi shares a 12-month playbook for global expansion for startups on a small budget: 1. Pilot where the pain is sharpest, not where the GDP is largest 2. Use “bridge markets” (Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, Germany) to de-risk the leap 3. Borrow distribution through accelerators and channel partners before you buy it 4. Build remote-first with Employer-of-Record tools like Deel or Remote 5. Stack free infrastructure: grants, trade commissioners, credit insurance About Megha: Supported 1,200+ startups at MaRS. Leads @techtoorg - Canada’s largest and most connected tech community. Has scaled companies across North America, Europe, India, and Australia. Read the full playbook at the link in bio. #globalexpansion #internationalexpansion #scalingstartups #bootstrapping #techstartups
90% of tech startups fail, and the odds only get tighter when you try to cross borders. The founders who break out almost always find international revenue early. Megha Kandoi shares a 12-month playbook for global expansion for startups on a small budget: 1. Pilot where the pain is sharpest, not where the GDP is largest 2. Use “bridge markets” (Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, Germany) to de-risk the leap 3. Borrow distribution through accelerators and channel partners before you buy it 4. Build remote-first with Employer-of-Record tools like Deel or Remote 5. Stack free infrastructure: grants, trade commissioners, credit insurance About Megha: Supported 1,200+ startups at MaRS. Leads @techtoorg - Canada’s largest and most connected tech community. Has scaled companies across North America, Europe, India, and Australia. Read the full playbook at the link in bio. #globalexpansion #internationalexpansion #scalingstartups #bootstrapping #techstartups
90% of tech startups fail, and the odds only get tighter when you try to cross borders. The founders who break out almost always find international revenue early. Megha Kandoi shares a 12-month playbook for global expansion for startups on a small budget: 1. Pilot where the pain is sharpest, not where the GDP is largest 2. Use “bridge markets” (Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, Germany) to de-risk the leap 3. Borrow distribution through accelerators and channel partners before you buy it 4. Build remote-first with Employer-of-Record tools like Deel or Remote 5. Stack free infrastructure: grants, trade commissioners, credit insurance About Megha: Supported 1,200+ startups at MaRS. Leads @techtoorg - Canada’s largest and most connected tech community. Has scaled companies across North America, Europe, India, and Australia. Read the full playbook at the link in bio. #globalexpansion #internationalexpansion #scalingstartups #bootstrapping #techstartups
90% of tech startups fail, and the odds only get tighter when you try to cross borders. The founders who break out almost always find international revenue early. Megha Kandoi shares a 12-month playbook for global expansion for startups on a small budget: 1. Pilot where the pain is sharpest, not where the GDP is largest 2. Use “bridge markets” (Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, Germany) to de-risk the leap 3. Borrow distribution through accelerators and channel partners before you buy it 4. Build remote-first with Employer-of-Record tools like Deel or Remote 5. Stack free infrastructure: grants, trade commissioners, credit insurance About Megha: Supported 1,200+ startups at MaRS. Leads @techtoorg - Canada’s largest and most connected tech community. Has scaled companies across North America, Europe, India, and Australia. Read the full playbook at the link in bio. #globalexpansion #internationalexpansion #scalingstartups #bootstrapping #techstartups
90% of tech startups fail, and the odds only get tighter when you try to cross borders. The founders who break out almost always find international revenue early. Megha Kandoi shares a 12-month playbook for global expansion for startups on a small budget: 1. Pilot where the pain is sharpest, not where the GDP is largest 2. Use “bridge markets” (Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, Germany) to de-risk the leap 3. Borrow distribution through accelerators and channel partners before you buy it 4. Build remote-first with Employer-of-Record tools like Deel or Remote 5. Stack free infrastructure: grants, trade commissioners, credit insurance About Megha: Supported 1,200+ startups at MaRS. Leads @techtoorg - Canada’s largest and most connected tech community. Has scaled companies across North America, Europe, India, and Australia. Read the full playbook at the link in bio. #globalexpansion #internationalexpansion #scalingstartups #bootstrapping #techstartups
90% of tech startups fail, and the odds only get tighter when you try to cross borders. The founders who break out almost always find international revenue early. Megha Kandoi shares a 12-month playbook for global expansion for startups on a small budget: 1. Pilot where the pain is sharpest, not where the GDP is largest 2. Use “bridge markets” (Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, Germany) to de-risk the leap 3. Borrow distribution through accelerators and channel partners before you buy it 4. Build remote-first with Employer-of-Record tools like Deel or Remote 5. Stack free infrastructure: grants, trade commissioners, credit insurance About Megha: Supported 1,200+ startups at MaRS. Leads @techtoorg - Canada’s largest and most connected tech community. Has scaled companies across North America, Europe, India, and Australia. Read the full playbook at the link in bio. #globalexpansion #internationalexpansion #scalingstartups #bootstrapping #techstartups
90% of tech startups fail, and the odds only get tighter when you try to cross borders. The founders who break out almost always find international revenue early. Megha Kandoi shares a 12-month playbook for global expansion for startups on a small budget: 1. Pilot where the pain is sharpest, not where the GDP is largest 2. Use “bridge markets” (Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, Germany) to de-risk the leap 3. Borrow distribution through accelerators and channel partners before you buy it 4. Build remote-first with Employer-of-Record tools like Deel or Remote 5. Stack free infrastructure: grants, trade commissioners, credit insurance About Megha: Supported 1,200+ startups at MaRS. Leads @techtoorg - Canada’s largest and most connected tech community. Has scaled companies across North America, Europe, India, and Australia. Read the full playbook at the link in bio. #globalexpansion #internationalexpansion #scalingstartups #bootstrapping #techstartups
90% of tech startups fail, and the odds only get tighter when you try to cross borders. The founders who break out almost always find international revenue early. Megha Kandoi shares a 12-month playbook for global expansion for startups on a small budget: 1. Pilot where the pain is sharpest, not where the GDP is largest 2. Use “bridge markets” (Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, Germany) to de-risk the leap 3. Borrow distribution through accelerators and channel partners before you buy it 4. Build remote-first with Employer-of-Record tools like Deel or Remote 5. Stack free infrastructure: grants, trade commissioners, credit insurance About Megha: Supported 1,200+ startups at MaRS. Leads @techtoorg - Canada’s largest and most connected tech community. Has scaled companies across North America, Europe, India, and Australia. Read the full playbook at the link in bio. #globalexpansion #internationalexpansion #scalingstartups #bootstrapping #techstartups
90% of tech startups fail, and the odds only get tighter when you try to cross borders. The founders who break out almost always find international revenue early. Megha Kandoi shares a 12-month playbook for global expansion for startups on a small budget: 1. Pilot where the pain is sharpest, not where the GDP is largest 2. Use “bridge markets” (Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, Germany) to de-risk the leap 3. Borrow distribution through accelerators and channel partners before you buy it 4. Build remote-first with Employer-of-Record tools like Deel or Remote 5. Stack free infrastructure: grants, trade commissioners, credit insurance About Megha: Supported 1,200+ startups at MaRS. Leads @techtoorg - Canada’s largest and most connected tech community. Has scaled companies across North America, Europe, India, and Australia. Read the full playbook at the link in bio. #globalexpansion #internationalexpansion #scalingstartups #bootstrapping #techstartups
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90% of tech startups fail, and the odds only get tighter when you try to cross borders. The founders who break out almost always find international revenue early. Megha Kandoi shares a 12-month playbook for global expansion for startups on a small budget: 1. Pilot where the pain is sharpest, not where the GDP is largest 2. Use “bridge markets” (Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, Germany) to de-risk the leap 3. Borrow distribution through accelerators and channel partners before you buy it 4. Build remote-first with Employer-of-Record tools like Deel or Remote 5. Stack free infrastructure: grants, trade commissioners, credit insurance About Megha: Supported 1,200+ startups at MaRS. Leads @techtoorg - Canada’s largest and most connected tech community. Has scaled companies across North America, Europe, India, and Australia. Read the full playbook at the link in bio. #globalexpansion #internationalexpansion #scalingstartups #bootstrapping #techstartups
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The hardest part of building a startup is never the part you plan for. Kalanick’s $1.7B robot kitchen can build 300 bowls an hour, until it has to bag them. Then it drops to 200. A floppy plastic bag beats a machine that weighs food to the gram. That’s the “fries in the bag” problem: the boring step you already handed off, assuming it would sort itself out. It’s usually the one that costs you. Daniel Zhao (Head of Finance at Landbase, previously co-founder of LavaReach) on the friction nobody puts on a slide. Link in our bio to the full article. #scalingstartups #traviskalanick #startupadvice #robotics #foundermindset
The hardest part of building a startup is never the part you plan for. Kalanick’s $1.7B robot kitchen can build 300 bowls an hour, until it has to bag them. Then it drops to 200. A floppy plastic bag beats a machine that weighs food to the gram. That’s the “fries in the bag” problem: the boring step you already handed off, assuming it would sort itself out. It’s usually the one that costs you. Daniel Zhao (Head of Finance at Landbase, previously co-founder of LavaReach) on the friction nobody puts on a slide. Link in our bio to the full article. #scalingstartups #traviskalanick #startupadvice #robotics #foundermindset
The hardest part of building a startup is never the part you plan for. Kalanick’s $1.7B robot kitchen can build 300 bowls an hour, until it has to bag them. Then it drops to 200. A floppy plastic bag beats a machine that weighs food to the gram. That’s the “fries in the bag” problem: the boring step you already handed off, assuming it would sort itself out. It’s usually the one that costs you. Daniel Zhao (Head of Finance at Landbase, previously co-founder of LavaReach) on the friction nobody puts on a slide. Link in our bio to the full article. #scalingstartups #traviskalanick #startupadvice #robotics #foundermindset
The hardest part of building a startup is never the part you plan for. Kalanick’s $1.7B robot kitchen can build 300 bowls an hour, until it has to bag them. Then it drops to 200. A floppy plastic bag beats a machine that weighs food to the gram. That’s the “fries in the bag” problem: the boring step you already handed off, assuming it would sort itself out. It’s usually the one that costs you. Daniel Zhao (Head of Finance at Landbase, previously co-founder of LavaReach) on the friction nobody puts on a slide. Link in our bio to the full article. #scalingstartups #traviskalanick #startupadvice #robotics #foundermindset
The hardest part of building a startup is never the part you plan for. Kalanick’s $1.7B robot kitchen can build 300 bowls an hour, until it has to bag them. Then it drops to 200. A floppy plastic bag beats a machine that weighs food to the gram. That’s the “fries in the bag” problem: the boring step you already handed off, assuming it would sort itself out. It’s usually the one that costs you. Daniel Zhao (Head of Finance at Landbase, previously co-founder of LavaReach) on the friction nobody puts on a slide. Link in our bio to the full article. #scalingstartups #traviskalanick #startupadvice #robotics #foundermindset
The hardest part of building a startup is never the part you plan for. Kalanick’s $1.7B robot kitchen can build 300 bowls an hour, until it has to bag them. Then it drops to 200. A floppy plastic bag beats a machine that weighs food to the gram. That’s the “fries in the bag” problem: the boring step you already handed off, assuming it would sort itself out. It’s usually the one that costs you. Daniel Zhao (Head of Finance at Landbase, previously co-founder of LavaReach) on the friction nobody puts on a slide. Link in our bio to the full article. #scalingstartups #traviskalanick #startupadvice #robotics #foundermindset
The hardest part of building a startup is never the part you plan for. Kalanick’s $1.7B robot kitchen can build 300 bowls an hour, until it has to bag them. Then it drops to 200. A floppy plastic bag beats a machine that weighs food to the gram. That’s the “fries in the bag” problem: the boring step you already handed off, assuming it would sort itself out. It’s usually the one that costs you. Daniel Zhao (Head of Finance at Landbase, previously co-founder of LavaReach) on the friction nobody puts on a slide. Link in our bio to the full article. #scalingstartups #traviskalanick #startupadvice #robotics #foundermindset
The hardest part of building a startup is never the part you plan for. Kalanick’s $1.7B robot kitchen can build 300 bowls an hour, until it has to bag them. Then it drops to 200. A floppy plastic bag beats a machine that weighs food to the gram. That’s the “fries in the bag” problem: the boring step you already handed off, assuming it would sort itself out. It’s usually the one that costs you. Daniel Zhao (Head of Finance at Landbase, previously co-founder of LavaReach) on the friction nobody puts on a slide. Link in our bio to the full article. #scalingstartups #traviskalanick #startupadvice #robotics #foundermindset
The hardest part of building a startup is never the part you plan for. Kalanick’s $1.7B robot kitchen can build 300 bowls an hour, until it has to bag them. Then it drops to 200. A floppy plastic bag beats a machine that weighs food to the gram. That’s the “fries in the bag” problem: the boring step you already handed off, assuming it would sort itself out. It’s usually the one that costs you. Daniel Zhao (Head of Finance at Landbase, previously co-founder of LavaReach) on the friction nobody puts on a slide. Link in our bio to the full article. #scalingstartups #traviskalanick #startupadvice #robotics #foundermindset
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The hardest part of building a startup is never the part you plan for. Kalanick’s $1.7B robot kitchen can build 300 bowls an hour, until it has to bag them. Then it drops to 200. A floppy plastic bag beats a machine that weighs food to the gram. That’s the “fries in the bag” problem: the boring step you already handed off, assuming it would sort itself out. It’s usually the one that costs you. Daniel Zhao (Head of Finance at Landbase, previously co-founder of LavaReach) on the friction nobody puts on a slide. Link in our bio to the full article. #scalingstartups #traviskalanick #startupadvice #robotics #foundermindset
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