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Building a startup product with 10 pilot customers and a boring tech stack
EO
September 25, 2024
Case studies
9
MVP & prototyping
8
Automation & tools
6
50%+ pilot conversion rate by building in real time against customer needs
Boring tech stacks let small teams ship fast and fix problems in minutes
Define your startup identity by the problem, never the solution
Founder interviews
YouTube
Don't start a company — solve a problem worth solving
EO
September 24, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Niche selection
7
Identity & self-belief
5
Starting a company for its own sake is a career-stalling mistake
Joining a frontier AI company first can beat starting one immediately
Every keyboard and mouse will be replaced by a camera and microphone
Product-market fit
YouTube
How OpusClip reached 5 million users in seven months
EO
September 20, 2024
Product-market fit
9
Pivoting
8
Iteration & feedback loops
6
Users who offer to pay unprompted are your real product-market fit signal.
One buried feature in a failed product became a $10M ARR business.
Authenticity will be the scarcest asset when AI content is everywhere.
Founder interviews
YouTube
How Carl Pei built Nothing by competing on design, community, and AI timing
EO
September 17, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Competitive analysis
7
Community building
6
Why design is a deliberate strategy to buy time until real tech is ready
Community members co-create products, invest, and blur the line with employees
AI will reset the OS paradigm — and Nothing is betting that levels the field
Why blockchains are the antidote to internet consolidation
EO
September 7, 2024
Business models
9
AI strategy & adoption
6
Five companies now capture 95%+ of internet traffic and revenue.
Blockchains give users ownership of followers, data, and assets.
AI will destroy creator business models without a new ownership layer.
What seed and Series A investors actually look for
EO
September 3, 2024
Fundraising & VC
9
Business models
6
Seed is a team and a dream; Series A demands real traction
Early hiring mistakes are recoverable — repeated ones aren't
Superior products, not activism, drive climate adoption
Story Protocol: building the programmable IP layer for the AI age
EO
August 28, 2024
Business models
9
AI strategy & adoption
7
Pricing strategy
6
AI destroys creator revenue models — blockchain restores them
IP encoded as Lego bricks: composable, licensable, royalty-paying
Video games embraced remixing and grew 7x; music didn't and stagnated
Founder interviews
YouTube
Navigating AI hype cycles and finding defensible startup ground
EO
August 22, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Business models
8
AI strategy & adoption
7
Incumbents now move as fast as startups in the AI era
Repeatability in use cases is the real test of product-market fit
Customers won during hard markets are worth far more long-term
How Fireworks AI scaled 100x in six months by solving GPU cost and latency
EO
August 20, 2024
Business models
9
AI tools & automation
8
Case studies
7
GPU cost and latency are the two killers of AI product viability
100x traffic growth in six months; $552M valuation after Series B
Compound AI routes queries across specialist models and live APIs
What 430 investments taught me about backing great founders
EO
August 13, 2024
Fundraising & VC
9
Hiring & recruitment
6
Pitching investors
5
Gut feeling is pattern recognition built through volume, not innate talent.
Back the person first — a great team pivots a bad idea, a weak team loses.
Junior VCs who act entitled are damaging the industry's reputation.
How CircleCI reached $100M revenue: lessons on growth and survival
EO
August 7, 2024
Case studies
9
Pricing strategy
7
AI strategy & adoption
6
Switching to usage-based pricing transformed customer relationships and retention.
Product-market fit is felt, not measured — ship fast to find it.
Defensibility against well-funded AI incumbents requires truly unique positioning.
Product-market fit
YouTube
How Superhuman reached $825M by engineering product-market fit
EO
July 27, 2024
Product-market fit
10
Growth hacking
7
One survey question can replace gut feel for product-market fit
Changing your target market can lift PMF score before touching the product
Controlled 4–5 user onboardings per week beats a broad launch
What second-time founders do differently when building a B2B SaaS
EO
July 10, 2024
Niche selection
10
Customer discovery
7
Pricing strategy
6
Get five paying customers before writing a single line of code
Retrofitting a consumer product to enterprise needs almost always fails
If a business won't pay $50/month, the problem isn't big enough
FURSYS: Korea's top office furniture brand enters the US market
EO
July 6, 2024
Case studies
9
Market research
7
Branding
5
US offices are built for connection, not work — brands don't matter
Second-gen CEO shifted from pure quality obsession to global marketing
IDEO research revealed hybrid work demands furniture with home-office fluidity
Resilience & grit
YouTube
The venture mindset: decision principles from Silicon Valley investors
EO
July 2, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Pitching investors
7
Fundraising & VC
5
Top VCs have higher failure rates — and still outperform everyone.
Invert the filter: ask 'why not?' before 'why yes?'
Cold emails work: 1 in 6 investors respond to a well-crafted pitch.