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Industry Shifts Are Predictable. Here's The Pattern.

Every industry shift follows the same 4 phases: Noise, Dismissal, Underground, and Scramble. Learn to spot the pattern before your competitors do.

Aug 9 •

Richer Than Gates and Buffett Combined & Then Lost It All

Yoshiaki Tsutsumi's $20 billion empire exceeded Gates and Buffett combined. Then 95% vanished in history's most spectacular governance failure…

Jul 30 •

Your Strategy Sucks. Here's Why.

MIT research shows only 28% of managers know their company's strategy. Here's why simple strategies like Tesla's 39 words build billion-dollar empires.

Jul 19 •

966 Startups Died Last Year. The Pattern Is Always the Same.

The startup failure rate is up 25.6%. Analysis reveals the universal pattern: linguistic decay in updates, biological denial mechanisms, and metrics…

Jul 12 •

Your Design Principles Are Useless (Here's What Actually Works)

"Simple, clear, beautiful" doesn't help with real decisions. Have you ever heard someone saying, I need complex and ugly design? Let's discuss what…

Jun 14 •

What is a true luxury for founders?

Running a startup shifted my entire perspective on success and luxury. Five years into this journey, here's what I have learned...

Feb 17 •

The reality of building a winning team

Real lessons on startup leadership from the trenches: how honesty, patience, and learning from mistakes builds winning teams.

Jan 5 •

Founder's focus

Would you believe me if I said that saying no is a superpower? Let's look into this idea with a post about how founders' focus on the early stages of…

Dec 23, 2024 •

Building brand communities that actually work

Learn why most brand communities fail and get practical steps to build an engaged community that drives `real business results.

Dec 15, 2024 •

Being a CEO is less glamorous than it looks like

The stories behind closed doors that business courses don't teach you. Unfiltered confessions from the weight of the crown.

Nov 10, 2024 •

The real startup advantage

Latency and not velocity is the real startup advantage. Understand what I mean by this from the real-world example.

Nov 1, 2024 •

Life of a founder: It's not what you see on social media

Starting a company and becoming a founder is not what they say! The reality is different. Are you a founder working hard on your idea, this article is…

Oct 24, 2024 •

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