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Trend Report: Fashion Tech and NFTs

  • August 2, 2021
Fashion Tech
It’s becoming clear that fashion tech has evolved, yet again. Whether that evolution was inevitable or a result of the pandemic remains a question mark, but the same questions remain:…
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Textotog
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Textodog – A Group Text Platform for the Travel & Hospitality Industry

  • June 3, 2021
During the pandemic, my team of developers and I decided to commercialize the most important customer experience system we use in my bus tour company: a group text messaging platform…
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Founders in fashion
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YesPlz AI – 3 Lessons for Startup Founders in Fashion Tech

  • May 16, 2021
How did my startup, YesPlz AI, build an AI-powered product filter from a set of scribbles? With hard work, long hours, and a lot of prototypes–but if you’re reading this…
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Tips for startups from January Barnes
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6 Actionable Tips for Startups from a Tech Journalist

  • May 16, 2021
ParlayMe is an interactive Tech News Platform for Startups, Investors, Founders and Business Leaders. In my line of work, as a Tech Journalist and Media expert, I come into contact…
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HR Tech
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HR Tech: Our Sales Dropped To $0, So We Pivoted

  • March 17, 2021
We began 2020 with our sales at an all-time high! Our major client base was in hospitality and we were growing rapidly. We had a great year to look forward…
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5 ways to build a sales culture that drives high performance

  • March 2, 2021
Every B2B tech startup even though is focused on building the next best technology, it has a sales culture, and it’s important to keep that culture in check from time…
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10 Mental Models
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10 Mental Models to help you find your First 10 Customers

  • February 21, 2021
First of all, what are mental models? It seems like wasted breath for me to tell you what Mental Models are when the ever-wise Farnam Street has so succinctly described them (and literally…
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fast fashion
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What Is Fast Fashion And Why We Need To Stop It Now

  • February 15, 2021
What is fast fashion? Fast Fashion used to be described as the action of copying runway looks and bringing cheap designs to stores as fast as possible. Nowadays, Fast Fashion…
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PR for startups
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PR for Startups: 5 Tips for Securing Press Coverage

  • January 29, 2021
Press coverage leads to an increase in awareness, business results and credibility. Here are five tips as you look to secure PR coverage for your startup. Increasing awareness could lead…
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Guest Posting SEO
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How Guest Posting Can Boost SEO And Grow Your Business

  • January 27, 2021
According to the recent market analysis by Research Dive, the Global Content Marketing Industry forecast will surpass $107.5 billion by 2026, from $36.8 billion in the 2018, growing at a CAGR…
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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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