🇺🇦 Chris Herbert 🍁

Rural Venture Builder | Rural Entrepreneur | Founding Member: AREA 81 | Competitive Squash Player |

[🇺🇦 Chris Herbert 🍁 @RuralEnt81]

1/ Grants for Ag range from $10K to $6M. My venture, Mi6 Agency, is now making it easier for you to know what funding is available and helping agri businesses get it. If you're interested comment or DM me.

[🇺🇦 Chris Herbert 🍁 @RuralEnt81]

@KenSchaus Via @AlexRuff17 and @NewsBayshore https://t.co/WDn1vqiQ3D

[🇺🇦 Chris Herbert 🍁 @RuralEnt81]

Being and Entrepreneur Update:

=> Grey-Bruce Piloting Way to Help People Navigate Health Care System
=> Venture Capital Strategies and the Builder-Led Investment Model
=> Project Aristotle Deconstructed: An In-Depth Analysis of Google's Research on Team Effectiveness

Summaries here: https://t.co/U50rCd19bT

[Blake Vince @blake_vince]

The less we do, the better it becomes. #rootsnotiron

[Ash Maurya @ashmaurya]

Assumption mapping in 5 minutes:

1. Open your Lean Canvas
2. List every assumption
3. Score each: criticality (1-5) x uncertainty (1-5)
4. Highest score = your next experiment

Stop testing what's easy. Test what's risky.

[Build Canada @build_canada]

https://t.co/O9cJJqOUqo

[🇺🇦 Chris Herbert 🍁 @RuralEnt81]

Interesting.

[Ash Maurya @ashmaurya]

The one-person company is no longer a lifestyle choice. It's an economic structure.

Dario Amodei said he believes in billion-dollar one-person companies with "70-80% confidence." That's the CEO of Anthropic, not some LinkedIn influencer.

It's already starting. Base44 — solo founder Maor Shlomo built a no-code platform with AI, sold to Wix for $80M in 6 months. One person. No team. No VC.

But everyone's debating which AI tool will build the next one. Wrong question.

The person who builds it won't be the best coder. They'll be the best experimenter.

AI handles code, design, copy, analysis, and now even strategy. One person can do what used to require a team of 10. That's not a prediction — it's Tuesday for the founders I work with.

But execution was never the bottleneck. I've watched founders use AI to ship 3 products in the time it used to take to ship one. Same failure rate. Just faster.

The bottleneck is knowing which problem to solve. That requires domain expertise — years inside an industry, understanding nuance, knowing which pain points are worth $50K/year to fix.

Not 100x the output. 100x the leverage. There's a difference.

Domain expertise + AI execution + lean validation = the one-person company formula.

Not "best prompt engineer wins." The person with 10 years of domain knowledge and a validation framework will build circles around the generalist with better tools.

What industry do you know well enough to build a one-person company in?

[Ash Maurya @ashmaurya]

The cost of building a startup dropped 98% in 2 years. Claude Code for dev. Cursor for iteration. Vercel for deploy. Total: $200-300/month.

The cost of building the WRONG thing stayed exactly the same.

AI gives you 10x the ability to build. It gives you zero-x the clarity about what to build. A $200/month stack still needs a $0 validation step first: talking to customers.

[🇺🇦 Chris Herbert 🍁 @RuralEnt81]

2/ From Globe & Mail article: https://t.co/bVuow425Zw (subcription required). Summary below.

[🇺🇦 Chris Herbert 🍁 @RuralEnt81]

🧵Gov't Grants for Agriculture. Check out the full post below. I'll be adding some nuggets to this thread as well.

https://t.co/wPxQxcKNs5

[🇺🇦 Chris Herbert 🍁 @RuralEnt81]

1/ Grants for Ag range from $10K to $6M. My venture, Mi6 Agency, is now making it easier for you to know what funding is available and helping agri businesses get it. If you're interested comment or DM me.

[🇺🇦 Chris Herbert 🍁 @RuralEnt81]

Love what Blake does and remains committed to doing.

[Blake Vince @blake_vince]

Quite happy how this perennial sward is coming along, here in the Southwest Corner of ON Canada. Just before 7:00 A.M. and the birds are singing an April symphony

[🇺🇦 Chris Herbert 🍁 @RuralEnt81]

Amplifying.

[Mustafa Ekinci @ekinciio]

OPEN LETTER to the Claude Code team:

I’m writing this as someone who genuinely loves Claude Code.

A wave of people fell in love with Claude Code last month, not just because of the confidence and clarity your team showed, but because of the truly incredible work behind it. It felt like we were watching something historic being built. And I still believe that. You are creating something world-changing, and I know that is not easy. Technical problems will always happen.

But the real issue right now is not just the limits. It is the silence.

Thousands of users are on X every day, practically begging to be heard about Claude Code problems. I am one of them. I am on the $100 Max plan, and my limits run out so fast that my productivity feels like it has dropped 100x. I can barely write 5 blog posts before I hit the wall.

And it is not just my personal subscription. We also have a Teams plan as a startup, and we are paying $230 for it, yet we are seeing the same experience there too.

I am not writing this to attack you. I am writing this because I use the product, I care about it, and I want you to understand how this looks from the user side.

People are not losing trust because building hard things is hard. People lose trust when there is no clear communication. Many of us have tried every possible support and communication channel. Aside from a few scattered tweet replies, there has been no real official explanation. That is what is hurting confidence.

This is not an AI-generated complaint. I wrote this line by line because I care that much.

You have an incredibly loved team, product, and community right now. Please do not let poor communication damage something so special.

We are criticizing you because we still believe in you.

@claudeai @claude_code @AnthropicAI @DarioAmodei @bcherny

[🇺🇦 Chris Herbert 🍁 @RuralEnt81]

@KenSchaus @WeCover_Steel Thanks Ken. Someone from @WeCover_Steel can DM me and I'll provide details.

[🇺🇦 Chris Herbert 🍁 @RuralEnt81]

@KenSchaus Wondering if solutions like this are transferable to other situations like creating an all weather structure for outdoor pickleball courts so they can be used in the winter.

[🇺🇦 Chris Herbert 🍁 @RuralEnt81]

@PSASquashTour @james_willstrop @jpowersquash @paulcollsquash @QuashBadSquash 14/ Finally we see a conduct stroke from referree. It's about time. https://t.co/VUxaVy6amR

[🇺🇦 Chris Herbert 🍁 @RuralEnt81]

🧵 The sport of Squash is in trouble! We need to pull back a bit though and cast a wider net. This is not just about one player who is cheating. He knows it, his Dad knows it, his coach knows it, players know it and fans know it. The answer to Lisa's statement below, which motivated me to start this thread is simple: "if we know it, he knows it". | @PSASquashTour / @SquashTV

[SQUASHTV @SquashTV]

🎙️ "I'm not entirely sure he's fully aware he's doing it"

Lisa Aitken has her say on Mostafa Asal's conduct after the announcement of Elias' injury following the Egyptian Open final

#qatarclassic

[🇺🇦 Chris Herbert 🍁 @RuralEnt81]

@PSASquashTour @james_willstrop @jpowersquash @paulcollsquash 13/ @QuashBadSquash new video showing that Asal continues to cheat. When will @PSASquashTour finally clamp down on this. What example is he setting for juniours? Why after countless examples is he not being penalized more during match play? https://t.co/zR74iHfhNt

[🇺🇦 Chris Herbert 🍁 @RuralEnt81]

🧵Five Canadian Scaleups Crack Thrive Top 50 AgTech Companies List

https://t.co/8TasC3m70s

[🇺🇦 Chris Herbert 🍁 @RuralEnt81]

@CharlesLammam Is this report publicly available?

[🇺🇦 Chris Herbert 🍁 @RuralEnt81]

@CharlesLammam Charles, I share this concern with you. Of the number of businesses that start annually in Canada what percentage seek equity investment vs other funding options? My guess is less that 3%.

[🇺🇦 Chris Herbert 🍁 @RuralEnt81]

@VJsapps @tobi @JohnNabuurs We need a Canada that accelerates made and stay in Canada entrepreneurs and ventures. Not an SV in KW. That's been tried for many, many years... and it's not working.