Startup founders:

Calculating how many years it will take to reach the same Daily Active Users (DAU) the Meta team achieved in a week...😂😂😂

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Sometimes in life, it is better to be lucky than smart

In the last 2 weeks, with a change in regulation

@KoboFxApp went from providing "black market rates" to providing "market rates" for all major currencies.

There's been a 30% bump in daily active users..🤩

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10. Get a job as a "director" at a silicon valley company and always remind the team of these "war stories".

Or better yet?.....repeat.

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9. Write a blog post (on medium) about all the amazing things you learned while talking to no customer, never shipping, and hiring a bunch of FANG engineers and throw in that famous Edison line.

"I did not fail, I found 99 ways not to do it".

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8. While hiring, make sure you hire people who are only focused on updating their LinkedIn profile with a position they made up while at ur company.

I mean these are the people who are "really" into your company and will be with you for the long run.

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6. Spend even more time with nonsense engineering terms than business fundamentals.

Revenue? WTF is that?

Net Profit? Who dat is?

We are really focused on "latency", "memory usage" and "render times" on this imaginary system for our 100,000 users.

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7. Hire and keep hiring for your "hunch". I mean we "need" one backend dev, one front-end dev and one mobile engineer while we have zero paying customers.

You even "need" a Product Manager to add more layers of communication between u and ur imaginary customers.

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5. Speak to no customers. I mean you are Steve Jobs, and you have to throw that famous Ford line.

"If we asked users what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse".

How else would you give your famous TED talk without starting with "I knew it..."

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3. Act like you have ALL the f***ing time in the world. I mean you can't reach a deadline this week?

Heck, let's move it to next month, we have all the time in world.

Take 6 months in doing what takes large enterprise software companies 4 months.

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2. Spend more time debating GraphQL vs REST than talking to customers.

Because you have the same technical problems that Facebook has with your imaginary customers.

I mean you MUST give a tech talk about this AMAZING system you put together.

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How to fail at a technology startup.

1. Start by discussing MicroServices and Architecture. We must write code for our 100,000 imaginary customers who will hit our servers that have to SCALE.

Talk to NO CUSTOMERS but really focus on your AMAZING technology

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Unpopular Opinion:

Regardless of how u feel about @vercel's pricing,
@nextjs is a delightful product to use, and it makes using React a wonderful experience...😍

Please charge more if that's what's needed to maintain it....🤣🤣

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A year ago I started posting updates about building an app and a WhatsApp bot on Twitter.

The last few months I've been consulting for a couple startups because I shared those updates.

I've paid my mortgage from the consulting gigs.

One reason you should #buildinpublic

I heard that since 0% interest rates stopped,

the moment you stop calling ur company a "startup" and call it a "business" in your pitch decks you've already won.
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I'm asking for a friend.

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Is it even considered a business if it does not generate revenue?

Someone said it should be called a hobby if there is no revenue.

I'm asking for a friend...😂😂

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I think a lot of people are sleeping on how big bots can get.

In the last year I've shipped
- an android app
- an iOS app
- a WhatsApp bot.
- a Telegram bot.

When I look at the numbers, the WhatsApp bot is doing races around everything else.

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Filling out the YC application and it's crazy to see how much @KoboFxApp has grown in the last year.

What started as a small side project now has thousands of users each month.

The craziest part is how the WhatsApp bot grew organically...😜😜.

We move.

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Founders:

I need to raise seed money from investors.

Also Founders:

I have only sent 2 pitch decks.

Founders in their bio:

Back in the day they were all rejecting me.

Nah G, you literally only sent 2 applications and gave up.

Founders = me.

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Me when investors ask how is this FinTech connected to AI.
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I heard that the whole reason to start a company is valuation, not solving people's problems.
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I'm asking for a friend....👀👀👀
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