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AI Tools for Lawyers: How to Pick the Right One in 2025

  • November 19, 2024
AI Tools for Lawyers
If you’re reading this, chances are you’re either an independent lawyer or part of a small law firm like me, trying to navigate the wild world of AI tools for…
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Content Marketing KPIs
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Content Marketing KPIs: If You Can’t Measure It, Don’t Do It

  • November 3, 2024
In B2B marketing, content doesn’t just inform – it transforms. Where every blog post, every email, every tweet isn’t just a drop in the digital ocean, but a powerful wave…
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Brand Development
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Brand Development Done Right: From Idea to Identity

  • August 31, 2024
Building a brand is like crafting a story – your company’s story. It’s a journey that transforms a simple idea into a powerful identity. I remember when DeckLinks was just…
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Why Fractional Executive Talent is the Future
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Scaling Smart: Why Fractional Executive Talent is the Future

  • August 18, 2024
Many of my colleagues provide fractional executive services, and their impact is undeniable. Witnessing the transformative power of fractional leadership in tech startups and beyond inspired me to spread the…
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Stealth Startup
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Stealth Startup Mode Explained: A Path to Competitive Advantage

  • August 3, 2024
Ever feel like you’re playing a game where everyone knows the rules except you? That’s how I felt when I was building in public. When we started to work on…
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Leadership vs Coaching
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Leadership vs Coaching: What Drives More Success in Startups?

  • July 17, 2024
You’re not just building a product as a startup founder – you’re building a team, a culture, and a future. But here’s the thing: your overall success hinges on knowing…
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What it Takes to Be a Successful Serial Entrepreneur
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What it Takes to Be a Successful Serial Entrepreneur in Tech

  • July 12, 2024
Let’s get real about what it actually takes to be a successful serial entrepreneur in tech. You’ve got one business under your belt? Great. Now it’s time to leverage that…
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Community Building
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Community Building: Cultivating Growth for Startups and Nonprofits

  • March 26, 2024
What if the key to exponential growth in your startup or nonprofit is already within your reach? Nope, this isn’t just me blowing smoke in your direction – you have…
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Guide to Successful Remote User Testing
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Remote User Testing: A Complete Guide For Startups

  • March 3, 2024
Founders, let me emphasize that user testing is a critical tool for developing exceptional products people actually want. But here’s the thing – it’s tricky enough to do quality user…
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Leadership Coaching
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Leadership Coaching: Everything You Need to Know To Empower Your Team

  • February 29, 2024
When I left my last role as a Global Vice President for a software company, I knew I wanted to get into coaching, but I didn’t entirely know what that…
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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
  • 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
  • An AI can now learn your product by watching your user use it once. On July 21, Anthropic shipped “Record a skill” in Claude Cowork: record a task, talk through it, and Claude turns it into a skill it runs on command. And it points at a whole category of software: products whose value was a nice front-end wrapped around a task people repeat. If that’s you, the interface just stopped being the thing worth defending. Here are 6 things a screen recording can’t capture, and where I’d build now: 1. Proprietary data that compounds 2. Being the system of record 3. Real network effects 4. Structural accountability 5. Distribution and brand 6. Being the tool the agent calls Full breakdown on BYVI (link in bio). #ClaudeAI #agenticAI #SaaS #startupmoat #anthropic
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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
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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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4/9
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
The POV you all been waiting for. Link in the bio for the full story. #ycstartupschool2026 #ycombinator #techstartups #ycstartupschool #yc
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1 month ago
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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
1 month ago
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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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An AI can now learn your product by watching your user use it once. On July 21, Anthropic shipped “Record a skill” in Claude Cowork: record a task, talk through it, and Claude turns it into a skill it runs on command. And it points at a whole category of software: products whose value was a nice front-end wrapped around a task people repeat. If that’s you, the interface just stopped being the thing worth defending. Here are 6 things a screen recording can’t capture, and where I’d build now: 1. Proprietary data that compounds 2. Being the system of record 3. Real network effects 4. Structural accountability 5. Distribution and brand 6. Being the tool the agent calls Full breakdown on BYVI (link in bio). #ClaudeAI #agenticAI #SaaS #startupmoat #anthropic
An AI can now learn your product by watching your user use it once. On July 21, Anthropic shipped “Record a skill” in Claude Cowork: record a task, talk through it, and Claude turns it into a skill it runs on command. And it points at a whole category of software: products whose value was a nice front-end wrapped around a task people repeat. If that’s you, the interface just stopped being the thing worth defending. Here are 6 things a screen recording can’t capture, and where I’d build now: 1. Proprietary data that compounds 2. Being the system of record 3. Real network effects 4. Structural accountability 5. Distribution and brand 6. Being the tool the agent calls Full breakdown on BYVI (link in bio). #ClaudeAI #agenticAI #SaaS #startupmoat #anthropic
An AI can now learn your product by watching your user use it once. On July 21, Anthropic shipped “Record a skill” in Claude Cowork: record a task, talk through it, and Claude turns it into a skill it runs on command. And it points at a whole category of software: products whose value was a nice front-end wrapped around a task people repeat. If that’s you, the interface just stopped being the thing worth defending. Here are 6 things a screen recording can’t capture, and where I’d build now: 1. Proprietary data that compounds 2. Being the system of record 3. Real network effects 4. Structural accountability 5. Distribution and brand 6. Being the tool the agent calls Full breakdown on BYVI (link in bio). #ClaudeAI #agenticAI #SaaS #startupmoat #anthropic
An AI can now learn your product by watching your user use it once. On July 21, Anthropic shipped “Record a skill” in Claude Cowork: record a task, talk through it, and Claude turns it into a skill it runs on command. And it points at a whole category of software: products whose value was a nice front-end wrapped around a task people repeat. If that’s you, the interface just stopped being the thing worth defending. Here are 6 things a screen recording can’t capture, and where I’d build now: 1. Proprietary data that compounds 2. Being the system of record 3. Real network effects 4. Structural accountability 5. Distribution and brand 6. Being the tool the agent calls Full breakdown on BYVI (link in bio). #ClaudeAI #agenticAI #SaaS #startupmoat #anthropic
An AI can now learn your product by watching your user use it once. On July 21, Anthropic shipped “Record a skill” in Claude Cowork: record a task, talk through it, and Claude turns it into a skill it runs on command. And it points at a whole category of software: products whose value was a nice front-end wrapped around a task people repeat. If that’s you, the interface just stopped being the thing worth defending. Here are 6 things a screen recording can’t capture, and where I’d build now: 1. Proprietary data that compounds 2. Being the system of record 3. Real network effects 4. Structural accountability 5. Distribution and brand 6. Being the tool the agent calls Full breakdown on BYVI (link in bio). #ClaudeAI #agenticAI #SaaS #startupmoat #anthropic
An AI can now learn your product by watching your user use it once. On July 21, Anthropic shipped “Record a skill” in Claude Cowork: record a task, talk through it, and Claude turns it into a skill it runs on command. And it points at a whole category of software: products whose value was a nice front-end wrapped around a task people repeat. If that’s you, the interface just stopped being the thing worth defending. Here are 6 things a screen recording can’t capture, and where I’d build now: 1. Proprietary data that compounds 2. Being the system of record 3. Real network effects 4. Structural accountability 5. Distribution and brand 6. Being the tool the agent calls Full breakdown on BYVI (link in bio). #ClaudeAI #agenticAI #SaaS #startupmoat #anthropic
An AI can now learn your product by watching your user use it once. On July 21, Anthropic shipped “Record a skill” in Claude Cowork: record a task, talk through it, and Claude turns it into a skill it runs on command. And it points at a whole category of software: products whose value was a nice front-end wrapped around a task people repeat. If that’s you, the interface just stopped being the thing worth defending. Here are 6 things a screen recording can’t capture, and where I’d build now: 1. Proprietary data that compounds 2. Being the system of record 3. Real network effects 4. Structural accountability 5. Distribution and brand 6. Being the tool the agent calls Full breakdown on BYVI (link in bio). #ClaudeAI #agenticAI #SaaS #startupmoat #anthropic
An AI can now learn your product by watching your user use it once. On July 21, Anthropic shipped “Record a skill” in Claude Cowork: record a task, talk through it, and Claude turns it into a skill it runs on command. And it points at a whole category of software: products whose value was a nice front-end wrapped around a task people repeat. If that’s you, the interface just stopped being the thing worth defending. Here are 6 things a screen recording can’t capture, and where I’d build now: 1. Proprietary data that compounds 2. Being the system of record 3. Real network effects 4. Structural accountability 5. Distribution and brand 6. Being the tool the agent calls Full breakdown on BYVI (link in bio). #ClaudeAI #agenticAI #SaaS #startupmoat #anthropic
An AI can now learn your product by watching your user use it once. On July 21, Anthropic shipped “Record a skill” in Claude Cowork: record a task, talk through it, and Claude turns it into a skill it runs on command. And it points at a whole category of software: products whose value was a nice front-end wrapped around a task people repeat. If that’s you, the interface just stopped being the thing worth defending. Here are 6 things a screen recording can’t capture, and where I’d build now: 1. Proprietary data that compounds 2. Being the system of record 3. Real network effects 4. Structural accountability 5. Distribution and brand 6. Being the tool the agent calls Full breakdown on BYVI (link in bio). #ClaudeAI #agenticAI #SaaS #startupmoat #anthropic
An AI can now learn your product by watching your user use it once. On July 21, Anthropic shipped “Record a skill” in Claude Cowork: record a task, talk through it, and Claude turns it into a skill it runs on command. And it points at a whole category of software: products whose value was a nice front-end wrapped around a task people repeat. If that’s you, the interface just stopped being the thing worth defending. Here are 6 things a screen recording can’t capture, and where I’d build now: 1. Proprietary data that compounds 2. Being the system of record 3. Real network effects 4. Structural accountability 5. Distribution and brand 6. Being the tool the agent calls Full breakdown on BYVI (link in bio). #ClaudeAI #agenticAI #SaaS #startupmoat #anthropic
An AI can now learn your product by watching your user use it once. On July 21, Anthropic shipped “Record a skill” in Claude Cowork: record a task, talk through it, and Claude turns it into a skill it runs on command. And it points at a whole category of software: products whose value was a nice front-end wrapped around a task people repeat. If that’s you, the interface just stopped being the thing worth defending. Here are 6 things a screen recording can’t capture, and where I’d build now: 1. Proprietary data that compounds 2. Being the system of record 3. Real network effects 4. Structural accountability 5. Distribution and brand 6. Being the tool the agent calls Full breakdown on BYVI (link in bio). #ClaudeAI #agenticAI #SaaS #startupmoat #anthropic
An AI can now learn your product by watching your user use it once. On July 21, Anthropic shipped “Record a skill” in Claude Cowork: record a task, talk through it, and Claude turns it into a skill it runs on command. And it points at a whole category of software: products whose value was a nice front-end wrapped around a task people repeat. If that’s you, the interface just stopped being the thing worth defending. Here are 6 things a screen recording can’t capture, and where I’d build now: 1. Proprietary data that compounds 2. Being the system of record 3. Real network effects 4. Structural accountability 5. Distribution and brand 6. Being the tool the agent calls Full breakdown on BYVI (link in bio). #ClaudeAI #agenticAI #SaaS #startupmoat #anthropic
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An AI can now learn your product by watching your user use it once. On July 21, Anthropic shipped “Record a skill” in Claude Cowork: record a task, talk through it, and Claude turns it into a skill it runs on command. And it points at a whole category of software: products whose value was a nice front-end wrapped around a task people repeat. If that’s you, the interface just stopped being the thing worth defending. Here are 6 things a screen recording can’t capture, and where I’d build now: 1. Proprietary data that compounds 2. Being the system of record 3. Real network effects 4. Structural accountability 5. Distribution and brand 6. Being the tool the agent calls Full breakdown on BYVI (link in bio). #ClaudeAI #agenticAI #SaaS #startupmoat #anthropic
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