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🚨BREAKING: MICROSOFT DUMPS OPENAI Microsoft announces that they’re cutting their dependence on @OpenAI This comes as OAI faces a projected 14b loss and backlash across the globe by #keep4o as Altman rebrands and ships the nonprofit asset 4o model to his invested biotech company.↗

Free $72,000,000 startup idea for you Clawdbot security for dummies the trusted name that audits setups, locks down deployments, and monitors for breaches. You sell piece of mind. You could give new clients a free mac mini. $299/month per client x 20,000 ClawdBot users __…↗

·@ideabrowser·Jan 26, 2026·essay·business·clawdbot·saas·security

Nearly 5 years ago, I left VC to build a holdco focused on acquiring and tech-enabling traditional businesses. Ultimately, I failed, but here's what I learned about the potential that exists -- and some hard truths I uncovered along the way...↗

·@_markvaldez·Nov 21, 2024·essay·business·entrepreneurship·lessons·vc

My 9 year old daughter is getting curious about business, entrepreneurship, and how the economic system works. What are your top recommendations for things I can share, read/watch with her, and activities we can do together? Grateful for the help.↗

Today, my little one-person business crossed $7.5M in total revenue. It took 1,712 days, I ran zero ads & operate at a ~91% margin. Here are the 22 steps of my wild & strange journey: Hope they are helpful to someone ↓↗

SaaSHub makes around $10k/m with premium listings. This means the directory is probably worth $350,000-$400,000, maybe more due to the industry. I love boring directories :)↗

·@KintuLabs·Nov 7, 2023·essay·business·directories·saas·saashub

These 2 Michigan University students founded one of the most popular business newsletter companies. Alex & Austin made the news look cool with Morning Brew. In just 7 years, Morning Brew got: - $50M in annual revenue - 4M+ subscribers Breakdown of how they did it🧵↗

The 1970s and 1990s (bleeding into early 2000s) were THE time to start new truly disruptive companies... there are lots of ways to make a buck today, but without major narrative shift (not AI, not VR, etc.) we are all just putting.↗

We bootstrapped @cbinsights by first building a totally different business It involved hedge funds, too big too fail banks and $100,000 PDFs For nerds interested in data and information services businesses, you might enjoy this↗

Constellation Software is a $30b+ publicly-traded software holding company employing more than 25,000. A former venture capitalist, Mark Leonard started Constellation in 1995 with $15m of outside investment & a goal of buying vertical software companies.↗

Today, my little one-person business crossed $3M in revenue. It took 1,187 days, I ran zero ads & operate at a 94% margin. Here are the 20 steps of my wild & strange journey: Hope it's helpful to someone. [🧵 thread]↗

When it comes to competitive moats ... Easy to copy: point in time facts; harder to copy: facts in motion; very hard to copy: second derivatives/momentum, emergent properties of complex systems, journeys.↗

Look at this kids face. He was making $500K per cold email sent. Earned $10M+ profit in the first year of his business. Sold it and "retired". Here's what his business was and how he built it: (this is my story) 👇↗

There are three key ways to get rich: 1. Start a Business 2. Be Born Into a Wealthy Family 3. Extreme Patience Everyone likes the stories about #1 and #2. Nobody likes to hear about #3. Too bad. Today, I'm going to tell you a story about a guy who made billions with #3...↗

A thread of my biggest surprises and takeaways from researching successful early B2B growth strategy Read on 👇↗

·@lennysan·Aug 1, 2020·essay·b2b·business·growth-strategy

software is such a cheat code in the game of business. My first company was a restaurant. One of the worst businesses you can start (everyone told me this, but being young, I told them to kick rocks)↗

·@ShaanVP·Jun 20, 2020·essay·business·entrepreneurship·software