Darrien

[Darrel Frater ✝️ @DarrelFrater]

I'm looking for 3 more founders to demo their product live on Thursday to our community of over 2,500 entrepreneurs for feedback and beta testing.

Anyone interested in participating?

[Darrel Frater ✝️ @DarrelFrater]

Any founders interested in pitching my friends at BBG Ventures tomorrow?

They invest $500K–$1.5M in pre-seed and seed-stage founders across health, work, vertical AI, consumer, fintech, and climate.

Comment “DM” below. I’ll send you the invite.

[Wise @trikcode]

No Claude, the project will not take me 2-3 months.

We will finish it today.

[Madhura @madhurahoval]

how long can you push without seeing the payoff?

[Darrien @DarrienCWatson]

Freedom is the ultimate KPI

I like that

[Umair Shaikh @1Umairshaikh]

You think building a SaaS is hard.

Wait till you start selling it.

[Andrew Gazdecki @agazdecki]

Go really long as a founder. Work harder than most would ever consider reasonable. Out execute everyone and win.

[arian ghashghai @arian_ghashghai]

Founders: don't waste your time trying to convince a VC that is skeptical about your market.

I think it's extremely unlikely to convince any allocator (VC, LP etc) to invest in a market they hadn't already decided to allocate to.

Optimize for those investors that "get it"

[Rajan Bajaj @rajan_bajaj]

First time founders

First 6 months of your startup are not about

- Registering the company
- Opening bank account
- Applying for GST
- Applying for trademark

It's about

- Meeting customers
- Solving their problems
- Doing things that don't scale
- Understanding market feedback

[Siqi Chen @blader]

when did we all decide that "agents" are just zapier workflows that occasionally make an LLM call?

seems shortsighted.

[Andrew Gazdecki @agazdecki]

Everything with startups is easier when you’re generating revenue so focus on sales and marketing rather than building new features.

[Darrien @DarrienCWatson]

@IAmAaronWill 🚀 I Built a SaaS doing $1M+/mo in bookings

💰 Raised $1M+ in VC funding

🏆 Joined world-class accelerator programs

📱 Hit 1M TikTok views in 10 days

Now I help founders move faster — validate ideas, build MVPs, and scale with AI + automation.

🔗https://t.co/WTxdMFzY9k

[Darrien @DarrienCWatson]

@icanvardar Uid

[Marc Randolph @marcrandolph]

FYI. Voice memos drive me crazy. They shift all the work from sender to receiver.

You hit record and ramble for 3 minutes while I’m stuck listening with no way to skim.

You’re trading YOUR efficiency for MY time, and if you keep choosing your convenience over mine, don’t be surprised when I stop opening your messages altogether.

[Darrel Frater ✝️ @DarrelFrater]

Any founders interested in pitching my friends at Evertrue Capital?

They are a pre-seed venture capital fund investing in companies globally, industry agnostic.

💰 Check Size: $500K

Comment "DM" below. Happy to get you connect.

[Darrien @DarrienCWatson]

If you can prove demand, raising money and building the product becomes the easy part.

[Darrien @DarrienCWatson]

In 2023 I raised $1.5 milly for my startup.

Founders, let me save you years of pain

Got into an accelerator?
Raised some capital? Whopty do.

But none of that matters if you can’t sell.

The real question isn’t: “Can I build this?”
With enough time and money, anyone can build.

[Darrien @DarrienCWatson]

Betting on TikTok? → Grow the audience now.
•Betting on partnerships? → Lock them in first.
•Betting on ads? → Run them on a landing page today.

Customers don’t magically appear the day you launch.
Distribution is the product.

[Saïd Aitmbarek @SaidAitmbarek]

Advice to first-time founders:

- marketing from day 0
- mvp = single killer feature (no more)
- bake distribution in-app
- subs >> one-time payments
- launch in month 1.. ambitious but doable
- re-launch weekly
- scale: from $1 to $100, $1k, $10k mrr
- seo, seo, seo (+track geo/leo)
- ads/ugc, hire

Goal 1: make first sales + double down, compound.

Goal 2: optimize retention, push acquisition.

Goal 3: keep moving fast.

You got this🔥