Product — Obvious Startup Advice

July 26, 2026

Don't Leave the Experience to the AI

July 21, 2026

In Customer Discovery, Everything But "I Need This Yesterday" Is a No

July 16, 2026

A Good Product Isn't Enough Anymore. It Has to Be Shareable

July 6, 2026

Try to Kill Your Idea Before You Build It

May 27, 2026

Complaining Is Not Market Demand

April 30, 2026

Three Dumb Agents Beat One Smart One

January 20, 2026

Vibe Coding Isn't Killing Software

November 14, 2025

There Are Only Three Kinds of Startups

October 30, 2025

He Spent $500K Building Something He Couldn't Sell

February 13, 2025

Product/Market Fit Is Eight Things, Not Two

February 12, 2025

Go Find Something No One Else Knows

May 20, 2024

When to Fire Your Earliest Customers

May 15, 2024

FUCCUS: The Only Things to Focus On at Each Stage

May 14, 2024

Obsess Over Your Market and Your Assumptions

May 9, 2024

Automating a Broken Process Just Breaks It Faster

May 6, 2024

Don't Pivot Until You Have Data

April 29, 2024

Customers Aren't Looking for Features

April 2, 2024

Don't Solve Too Much Content by Making More Content

December 6, 2023

Your First Market Should Be Tiny

December 5, 2023

The Six Number-One Reasons Startups Die

November 26, 2023

A Problem Isn't Enough. It Has to Hurt.

November 15, 2023

What Programming Looks Like Keeps Changing. Creation Doesn't.

November 7, 2023

All the Low-Hanging Fruit Is Gone

October 26, 2023

When Your MVP Flops, Remove Features

October 25, 2023

Nobody Wants "AI for X"

October 1, 2023

There's No Moat in Reskinning an LLM

November 16, 2021

Is Your Pivot Based on Data?

May 19, 2021

Don’t Automate What You Don’t Know

May 11, 2021

Get Comfortable Nuking Your First Customers

April 27, 2021

Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

April 21, 2021

If Your Business Plan Starts with “If We Can Get Users to do X,” Start a Different Business

February 24, 2021

Six Things Every Founder Needs to Know, Part 2

December 16, 2020

Anatomy of a Successful Pivot: Rebric

November 4, 2020

User Stories Not Wireframes

Product

October 13, 2020

Software is the Easy Part

September 29, 2020

Know When To Change Gears

June 11, 2020

Stop Launching “A Then B” Businesses

January 22, 2020

Perseverance is Everything

January 8, 2020

The #1 Killer Of Startups Is Solving Problems That Aren’t Problems Yet

December 18, 2019

Every Product Needs a CEO

December 11, 2019

Rebric Case Study (Sell It Before You Build It)

December 4, 2019

Sell It Before You Build It

November 13, 2019

Features Don’t Sell Products

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