Just crossed 1,000 followers on X after 6 painful months. 🥂
Here’s what actually worked (and what didn’t):
✅ Posting daily
✅ ~5 posts + 50 replies/day
✅ Sharing real numbers + insights
❌ Waiting for virality
❌ One “big tweet” saving you
❌ Perfect content
Truth: Growth wasn’t exponential.
It was painfully linear.
here is a list of all startup accelerators you can apply to right now:
- a16z Speedrun ($750k–$1M for ~7–10%)
- Y Combinator ($500k for ~7%)
- Pioneer ($20k for 1%)
- LAUNCH ($125k for 6–7%)
- The Mint ($500k for 10%)
- AngelPad ($120k for 7%)
- Techstars ($220k for ~5–7%)
- 500 Global ($112.5k for 6%)
- Entrepreneur First ($250k for ~9%)
- South Park Commons ($400k for 7% + $600k guaranteed follow-on)
- HFO Residency ($1M uncapped for 5% or $500k uncapped + 3%)
- NEO ($600k via uncapped SAFE with $10M floor valuation)
- Sequoia Arc ($1M)
- PearX ($250k–$2M)
- Betaworks AI Camp ($500k)
- Greylock Edge (SAFE note + $500k+ in credits)
- Conviction Embed ($150k uncapped MFN SAFE)
- OpenAI Converge ($1M equity investment)
- Startup Wise Guys (up to €65k for equity)
- APX (up to €500k, typically €50k for 5%)
- Founders Fellowship ($150k for 5–10%)
- Seedcamp (€100k–€200k for 7–7.5%)
- Antler (€100k for 10% + stipend)
- Google for Startups (up to $100k)Accel Atoms (up to $500k–$1M)
- AI Grant ($250k uncapped)
- AI2 Incubator ($50k–$150k)Afore Capital ($100k–$500k)
- Berkeley SkyDeck ($200k)
- Soma Capital ($100k)
- Founder Institute (equity-based program with undisclosed funding)
- Boost VC (up to $500k for 15%)
- Antler ($200k–$250k for 8–9%)
Marc Andreessen: “The best entrepreneurs of the future will be quite skilled at 6-8 things”
Marc is asked how being a founder changes in the age of AI, to which he responds:
“I think there are two ways to have a differentiated edge in general — go deep or go broad.”
Going deep means becoming a specialized expert in your domain.
“There are domains where that really matters,” Marc explains. “In biotech and working on AI foundation models, the deeper you are the better.”
But as AI gets more powerful, Marc would bet that “going broad” will be the winning strategy for most fields. He recommends knowing a lot about many different fields and how the world works — then use AI tools to go deep whenever you need to.
“If you talk to any of the great CEOs, you see this.” Mark explains. “The really great CEOs are great at product, sales, and marketing people, they’re great legal thinkers, and they’re great at finance and with investors and the press. It’s a multidisciplinary kind of approach.”
He continues:
“The best entrepreneurs of the future will probably be quite skilled at 6 or 8 things and then will be able to cross-pollinate and combine them.”
Video source: @tbpn (2025)