I built an Excel automation startup in college, won $10K in grants, and shut it down before graduation.
Here's what it could do.
You can't launch a solution five years late. Now I'm at Yale SOM looking for a co-founder who's learned this the hard way too.
I built a personal CRM to cast a wide net this semester. What it actually turned up: fellow entrepreneurs in my own MBA class. I'm now running a 2+ week trial building a startup with one of them, to see how we work together.
Team, idea, or timing: which one decides whether a startup works?
The best founders I've talked to keep saying timing. Uncomfortable answer, since it's the one thing you can't outwork.
i don't think people realize what just happened...
20-200x faster. 40-400x cheaper. output tokens free forever.
the man who co-invented ChatGPT just dropped a new kind of AI called Jev and the twist is it can't write a word, it only makes decisions.
he's calling it the shortest path to an AI-driven economy, this might be the most underrated launch of the year.
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The most underrated skill for building successful teams is giving & receiving feedback.
I encourage you to practice this skill; a good place to start is with those close to you.
I spent a weekend building Rontext, a local personal CRM clone of Mesh, just to see what happens when you strip out auth and multi-tenancy.
Building software strictly for yourself is bizarrely fast because most SaaS complexity exists just to manage other people.
Now I am looking at half the $20 monthly subscriptions on my card and wondering why they aren't just local scripts on my desktop.
Got tired of manually typing dates from syllabi and PDFs into Google Calendar, so I built QuickAddCal.
Highlight text or drop a screenshot, and it parses straight to your calendar: