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@kazi
Applied for a founder reality tv show!
Show me some love 🦋
https://youtu.be/_FCMSEdHUos?si=jyfSwbuwrELZ0dZv
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@bfg
The goal isn't to sell (tools, subscriptions, gadgets)
The goal is to SOLVE PROBLEMs for your clients/users.
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@bfg
Your business - project - or you
need to transform during running all daily operations.
That's why every advice seems easy - because it never accounted for that.
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@bfg
It's worth thinking about each layer - even if you accidentally see AI evolution differently than USV - because that's where the most opportunities lie for us = in individual layers, not in hyperscalers
also notice - how many areas are best solved on blockchain rails
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@bfg
We stay young — as long as we keep trying to figure things out and learn new stuff 🤓
Anyone disagrees?
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@bfg
Point of fiction movies and books is simple
allow us to dream and think 💭
Right? 🤓
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@bfg
Very true ... more in the upcoming BuildBetter essay
(are you already a subscriber?) 🤔
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@bfg
Just curious - do we have a FC community of old-timers or renegades on X?
I would join if I knew it existed 😇 hinting at those active casters everywhere 😉
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@alecurtu
Did we lose all our qDAU? At peak PICKEM had 100+ weekly players and now we’re struggling to break 10. Native app is just waiting on Apple approval. Once live we’ll make another growth push to see if there’s still a path to scale or if it’s time to sunset the experiment. Every new user gets an embedded wallet at signup to remove onboarding friction.
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@bfg
From my perspective - it is ok to have AI agents do work on your behalf as long as you approve, understand, and take responsibility for their work.
It is not ok - IMHO - to have agents do work where you don't understand potential outcomes or can't accept responsibility for it.
Anyone disagree?
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@bfg
It's always easier, faster, and less scary to do the tactical thing
rather than the strategically important and relevant thing. 😳
That's why most of the advice and most of the work relate to and happen in the tactical realm.
That's also why most of the projects fail, most of the founders are disappointed, and most of the customers feel rugged.
Think about strategy and do the strategic work! 🚨
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@bfg
Even when AI can make you anything - any internal or personal tool - it is still a full time job to maintain it and keeping it useful.
... and nobody wants that 🚨
So SaaS tools are still alive and kicking - maybe just different types of Saas tools than before.
What do you think?
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@bfg
Every startup is a media business.
Most just don’t know they’re running one.
Whether you like it or not, what you publish shapes how customers discover you, what they believe about you, and increasingly, what AI says about you! 🚨
So stop treating media as something marketing does when there’s time.
Make it part of your business.
Decide what you want to be known for. Figure out where, how, and what to communicate. Invest in it. Plan it. Do it consistently.
And here’s something too many founders overlook:
Don’t build your entire audience on rented land.
Rented = social media, TV, radio.
Owned = email lists, your website, podcast, your community.
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@bfg
Beginnings are hard
Clean Ends are harder
And that’s what Luca did here — instead of launching a token and prolonging agony, he took the harder path and shut down bad part of business.
It’s a lesson right there 👇
https://x.com/lucanetz/status/2107555395640463480?s=46&t=vGdL6gMJv0qcvymUV8209g
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