39 startups are building alongside Vercel for six weeks. Backed by $8M in credits from AWS, Anthropic, OpenAI, ElevenLabs, and more, they have the resources to scale their infrastructure. Meet the 2026 Vercel AI Accelerator cohort. vercel.com/blog/2026-verc…↗

Officially launching X API Pay-Per-Use The core of X developers are indie builders, early stage products, startups, and hobbyists It’s time to open up our X API ecosystem and instill a new wave of next generation X apps We’re so back. developer.x.com↗

A marketplaces where venture backed startups and small cap tech cos can post their top 4-10 product priorities for strong external teams to build. Like a YC Request for Startups but for acquihires. Not sure that’s a business but there’s def demand.↗

Remote-first works extremely well if you have the right people. And fails miserably if you don't Some of my biggest investing wins are in remote-first startups. @Linear being the best example It works for A+ self-starting teams. We're trying to pull that off with @trysunflower↗

We asked @joshuabrowder about his new $30M fund and investment heuristics. "We are seeing a rise of super-credentialism. Top VC firms are tracking high school math competitions." "Just because someone's good at math doesn't mean they make a good founder. The best entrepreneurs…↗

I agree with everyone complaining about the CGT changes - but I also think we need to stop being whiny little bitches and just build elite companies in the UK anyway. The main thing that needs to change is our culture & mindset, not our taxation system. We need to think big, and…↗

If distribution is the new moat, where is the Y-Combinator for creating distribution, not software? I don’t think it exists. There isn’t much product risk anymore in most startups. Only distribution risk.↗

Naval Ravikant: “The future will be almost all startups” “I firmly believe that the efficient size of a company is shrinking very rapidly, and so the future will be almost all startups.” In the clip below from a 2012 interview, Naval speculates that information technology will…↗

I'm a college dropout that sold 3 startups by age 30 using these 5 software tools I used to keep these private. Now, you can have them. Read this if you care about cash-flowing startup ideas: 1. AnswerThePublic There are 3 billion Google Search Queries every day. Imagine if…↗

Some lessons from being in the room where it happens: 1. Invest because of the one thing that could go right not the 100 things that could go wrong (@Uber ) 2. When you really believe, ignore rules about ownership/price and lock in the allocation you are offered (@Square ) 3. The…↗

Every week, SF’s top AI engineers and startup founders meet up and show what’s new in AI. No pitches. No grifting. Just code. Here’s what some of SF’s best hackers are up to this week at @cerebral_valley 🧵↗

AI STARTUPS VS. INCUMBENTS Every day a new AI product goes viral on this website. But if your product goes head to head with an incumbent, their distribution advantage will probably kill your company. So what can startups do to compete with incumbent distribution? Read on 🧵↗

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early trends in the software market to inform startups’ plans for 2023.↗

This puts so well into words the conversation I’ve had dozens of times in the last year. (1) Incumbents are positioned to succeed in AI broadly much more than startups because brand, data, distribution offer advantage (2) The SaaS 1.0 playbook is uniquely bad for AI because A…↗

6 months ago it looked like AI / LLMs were going to bring a much needed revival to the venture startup ecosystem after a few tough years. With companies like Jasper starting to slow down, it’s looking like this may not be the case. Right now there are 2 clear winners, a handf…↗

Vibe I am getting without referencing data: A lot of VCs and founders are realizing right now how hard it is to build a truly generational company It is still 100% possible, it’s just still very rare. The glut of VC funding in the 2010s era was predicated on the idea that t…↗

90% of startups have plans or have released an AI feature, 54% of those features will launch in 2023, but only 30% of companies are hiring new people to do it, according to ProductBoard’s survey. These figures highlight three points:↗

Can confirm. Just yesterday, my teammate wrote a custom JSON parser that would have been a slog for 1-2 days within hours using GPT4. GPT4 is like giving each engineer their own intern who does 70-80% of the job. The remaining 30% is constraints & biz logic. Startups are going t…↗

Bootstrapping a software company is the best way to build wealth. Jason Cohen has bootstrapped 4 software companies from 0 to $1+ million in revenue. Two are now worth $1+ billion. Here's his exact plan to self-fund startups:↗

PREDICTION: There's a mass extinction event coming for early & mid-stage companies. Late '23 & '24 will make the '08 financial crisis look quaint for startups. Below I explain when, why & how it will start & offer *detailed advice to founders* on surviving the looming die-off. /1↗

Google’s #ImagenVideo has launched the Space Race of text-to-video (T2V) models. UNICORN startup opportunities to build upon T2V🧵↗

I've just published a completely revamped playbook for finding your first 1,000 users. This is based on researching 100+ B2C startups, talking to 30+ founders, and collecting tons of never before shared stories. This is def my new favorite post I've written. *Read on*↗

It’s time for the Marketplace 100: 2022 edition, by @a16z + @future! 🎉 For the third year in a row, we ranked the largest consumer marketplace startups by GMV and traffic. Here's what we found ⬇️ future.a16z.com/marketplace-10…↗

Request for (AI) Startups A 2022 list of AI-related startup ideas (I would use or see myself working on if I had the time)🧵↗

The GTM motions of 30 B2B startups, then and now↗

I've rewritten 300+ websites for startups from pre-seed to unicorn. Here are my top learnings 👇↗

Founder 1: Runs startup for five years. Sells for ~$100M. Makes $30M. Founder 2: Running startup for ten years (and counting). Valued at ~$1B. Founder shares valued at $30M. Which founder would you rather be? /🧵↗

THREAD: 10 significant lies you're told about the world. On startups, writing, and your career:↗

1/ For early-stage #startups your narrative matters just as much as your idea. We've put together a pre-seed pitch deck outline based on thousands of successful decks that have raised hundreds of millions of dollars. Here's what your deck should include:↗

🙇🏽‍♀️The Startup-Investor Matching Tool has me working. 😅From Sat to today, I've made 26 intros between investors and founders. 💸Can't wait to hear of more checks written! notion.so/lolitataub/Sta…↗