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The final of the women’s 800m race was a spectacular event at the Tokyo Olympics this year. In the last few seconds of the race, Athing Mu, a US athlete, was more than five meters ahead of the runner…
Read the essay →Removing features is surprisingly effective for a SaaS founder. But the surprise of how much less maintenance there is for the founder is only the first one of many — and maybe the only one you can…
Read the essay →I’ve spent most of the last two weeks watching a group of professional gamers lose. For days straight. During those many hours observing them play, I found lessons that every entrepreneur should take…
Read the essay →Most advice comes in the shape of telling you what to do to be successful. It’s instructional, it shows the happy path, and as a reader, I resonate with that a lot. After all, I want to see how it’s…
Read the essay →Yelling into the void won’t get you anywhere. This is particularly clear while you have zero followers, but it remains true even when you have an audience. Talking about something that people don’t…
Read the essay →Wherever you look in the founder community, people talk about “how to hack SEO” or “how to hack Twitter Ads.” I’m not a fan. Hacks are focused on instant gratification. Those looking for hacks play…
Read the essay →I’ve had an amazing year so far. I launched Zero to Sold a year go to great success, and in May, I launched The Embedded Entrepreneur to even greater success. I can’t adequately express how…
Read the essay →When founders do market research, they are well-advised to look for competition. But many entrepreneurs have a very limited understanding of what “competition” means and therefore overlook many…
Read the essay →I used to think all self-promotion was wrong — at all times. Being raised in Germany, I developed a severe case of tall poppy syndrome — the phenomenon of people holding back so they wouldn’t stand…
Read the essay →Let’s look at what makes a problem interesting enough to note it down in our search for the perfect business opportunity. Different people will define the word “problem” differently. I think that a…
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