ChatGPT Already Replaced Your First Meeting
Prospects now research with AI before talking to sales. Your digital presence is your first impression....
The MVP Excuse: When 'Minimum' Became an Excuse for Garbage
MVP was meant to be a discipline for validated learning, not permission to ship half-finished software. The corruption of the concept has given founders an excuse to skip the hard work of building som...
The Drone Delivery Fantasy: Why We're Still 10 Years Away
Despite $600M funding rounds and $27B market projections, drone delivery faces physics constraints that money can't solve: 20-minute battery life, 5-pound payloads, 10 hours of flyable weather per day...
Why AI Wrappers Are the New Dropshipping
The AI wrapper economy mirrors dropshipping: low barriers to entry, no moat, platform dependency. With 90% failure rates and platforms absorbing successful features, the model is broken by design....
Why I Spent $0 on Patents for 20 Years - Then Filed Everything
When patents matter (defensive portfolios, M&A leverage, licensing revenue) and when they're a distraction. The top 10 AI patent holders control nearly half of industry IP....
Your Users Don't Care About Your Architecture
The graveyard is full of startups with beautiful architecture and zero traction. 70% of failed startups scaled prematurely. Ship something simple, learn what users want, iterate fast....
The Inventions I Never Shipped
Over 45 years, I noticed a pattern: I keep building things that later become billion-dollar companies. This is less about timing and more about recognizing when something you built for yourself might ...
The Shareware Model Nobody Remembers
Before SaaS and app stores, shareware let independent developers make money through an honor system. The model worked for decades and contains lessons about distribution, trust, and monetization that ...