Solo Founders
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Solo Founders shares practical lessons for independent builders on lean execution, product progress, and sustainable solo growth.
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From four failed co-founder splits to a $66M solo startup
Solo Founders
May 13, 2026
Founder interviews
10
Pivoting
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Prospecting & outreach
7
- Why $40K left and no co-founders forced the right idea to surface
- Filing 100 Delaware tax returns for free landed the first 10 customers
- AI tools have removed the last real excuse to wait for a co-founder
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From Tesla exec to 14 go-to-market pivots: building Plug in the used EV market
Solo Founders
May 6, 2026
Founder interviews
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Pivoting
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Fundraising & VC
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- The one business model they ruled out became the hockey stick.
- 14 go-to-market attempts before finding the one that scaled.
- Why conventional wisdom is a self-manufactured constraint, not a fact.
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Building in local government: the $2 trillion market founders ignore
Solo Founders
April 29, 2026
Founder interviews
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Pivoting
7
Hiring & recruitment
5
- 90% of council votes are pre-decided before meetings even start
- Real estate developers found Hamlet before the consumer product launched
- Solo founding lets you optimise for extraordinary outcomes, not consensus
Why the co-founder assumption is killing your startup
Solo Founders
April 22, 2026
Business models
9
Resilience & grit
8
Bootstrapping
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- Co-founders are the leading cause of startup failure, not success.
- Solo founding crossed one-in-three new companies for the first time.
- Being solo alone is hard mode; solo together changes the equation.
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Solo founding Julius AI: lessons from six pivots and 2 million users
Solo Founders
April 15, 2026
Founder interviews
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Hiring & recruitment
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Pivoting
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- Why waiting for a co-founder is how smart founders stall
- Six pivots taught that users care about their own data, not public datasets
- Solo founders must out-convince everyone — hires, investors, customers
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Building a $9M bootstrapped AI company as a solo founder
Solo Founders
April 8, 2026
Founder interviews
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Bootstrapping
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B2B sales
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- A below-average co-founder is far worse than no co-founder
- First Stripe payment came 30 minutes after posting a pricing page
- Bootstrapped equity beats VC options once you run the actual math
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How a self-taught founder built AI software for police reports
Solo Founders
April 1, 2026
Founder interviews
10
Customer discovery
7
Management
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- Officers spend a third of their time on paperwork — AI can fix that
- Every 115 officers on the platform, one life is saved per year
- Why giving up 50% to a co-founder is almost always a bad deal
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Solo founding, AI companions, and personal software: Eugenia Kuyda on building Replika and Wabi
Solo Founders
March 25, 2026
Founder interviews
10
AI strategy & adoption
6
Delegation
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- Co-founders are usually one visionary plus high-equity employees
- Replika grew from grief — rebuilding a dead friend as AI
- Wabi bets personal software becomes a new creative medium
Fundraising as a Solo Founder: What Investors Won't Tell You
Solo Founders
March 18, 2026
Case studies
9
Fundraising & VC
7
Hiring & recruitment
6
- 25–30% of seed companies lose a co-founder before Series A.
- Solo founders hold 90% equity — a structural recruiting superpower.
- Resentment between co-founders is nearly impossible to reverse once entrenched.
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Solo founding a $300M infrastructure company: lessons from Browserbase
Solo Founders
March 11, 2026
Founder interviews
10
Hiring & recruitment
6
Fundraising & VC
6
- Why solo founding only makes sense for experienced second-time founders
- Single decision-maker means faster moves and cleaner company alignment
- Build investor relationships months before you need the money
AI strategy & adoption
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Building a $1.5M ARR company alone using AI agents as your team
Solo Founders
March 3, 2026
AI strategy & adoption
10
Automation & tools
8
Business models
7
- How one founder hit $1.5M ARR with zero human employees
- AI agents with defined scope can own support, engineering, and marketing
- The 20% that stays human: taste, direction, and creative vision
Solo founders don't need a co-founder — they need each other
Solo Founders
July 24, 2025
Case studies
8
Resilience & grit
6
- Stop co-founder dating — just start building
- Living with solo founders replaces co-founder accountability
- Less than 1% acceptance; described as family, not factory