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It’s power Monday! 
Who’s building what?
Consider this a promo post. 
Promo your stuff in comments👇🏽

Your product/service. 
Your offer.
Your soul. 

If I can help I will. 
*interesting stuff gets recasted

A day in the life of a founder:  

Calls,  
Calls,  
Calls.  


Design. 
Technical,  
Strategy. 
Legal.  

Wearing multiple hats is an art form that requires grace, an open mind, and consistency. 🤝

Vamoooooos ⚡️

Founders: “We’re not sure how to talk about our project.”

Also founders: never asked their investors for the memo that convinced them to invest.

That doc = your positioning cheat code. Market, problem, and why you're the chosen one. Polish it. Ship it. 

Bonus: this is why you pick thoughtful investors, not just hype machines.

You're welcome!

Testimonial - thanks @ninasuthers for the inspo!

I asked my investors for their investment memo or a summary

Super helpful to see what resonated, how they explain the opportunity, their modeling on potential outcomes, and all the risks they outlined

I once lived in a WeWork to build a startup.

We were building tools for Airbnb hosts, so we became hosts ourselves. We had just set up 28 apartments in Philly and we were tight on cash.

The first night we were 100% booked, we didn't have a place to stay...so we slept at the office.

Then we realized, we could just live there to save money.
We brought in a mattress. Taped up the motion sensors.

We’d work all day building the product, then crash on a mattress in our "office". 

We even papered up the glass walls so people wouldn't see us.

We lived out of suitcases. Showered at nearby gyms. 

And for what?

We had no salary. No safety net.
Just a deep belief that we were building something that mattered.

It wasn’t glamorous. It wasn’t even legal.
But it was necessary to get us off the ground.

I’m not saying you have to live in a WeWork to build a startup. But...

1/2

this is one of the wildest things i did in my early founder journey

Diving deeper into @circle’s S-1 today. Some good tips for founders:

1. Walk through regulators’ front door.

2. Build a platform / ecosystem others can build on.

3. Meet users where they are, not where you want them to be.

4. Compliance can be a competitive advantage (though this is eroding).

5. Play long-term games (it took 5+ years before USDC was born).

Opacity

How Opacity x Digg happened solidified why i’m so bullish Farcaster. Here’s the story.

@yb wrote this banger article on zkTLS and Opacity last year. Def subscribe to him.

Kevin Rose came across it and randomly DMd me on Warpcast and Twitter. We quickly hopped on a call and he conveyed excitement about zkTLS and that he could use it. 

I sent a slack invite and Lo and Behold Digg joined on the other end. Will post an update when I can share more details 😉.

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@yb, a farcaster native, wrote an article that landed me a deal of a lifetime. Cherry ontop, i had no idea who Krose was or the history of Digg 😂.

Thanks @yb for your great writing 

Thanks @v and @dwr.eth for making a network where i could shit post my way to PMF 🫡


https://terminallyonchain.xyz/zktls

Shit post more on here

https://warpcast.com/eulerlagrange.eth/0x1535a793

here's a 🌶️ take: 

as an industry We Need to Rethink Airdrops!

in this shot clip from a pod with @growthbeast.eth we cover:

- learnings from the $moxie airdrop which involved 180 day vesting + earned engagement rewards over time

- why i'm more keen on the clanker model (everyone buys)

- i also discuss my own experience selling the recent $7 $bracky airdrop (cause it was just so easy to one-tap swap it for $moxie in the warplet) 
-- but i then also turned around and bought $500 worth of $bracky in the open market couple days later!

Adding to Jason’s 🌶️ take - airdrops don’t work, period. 

They don’t work because engineers think they can out-engineer the love for their product with tokens instead of marketing and building useful shit. 

You can’t engineer love for product - you have to build it 🙌

“There are only two jobs in the world: building or selling. If you’re not doing one of those, you’re just an expense.”

accounts, lawyers, doctors gone.

Warpcast

now that @woj.eth has been acquired. Do we have plans to support multi accounts in warpcast?

What is the best way to run a shared account on mobile?

87% profit margins, $32.5k mrr, 38% churn (need to fix), 98 days in

all organic reach, spent $100 to boost a tweet, lots more engagement but didnt track conversions, need to probably spend $1000 to see a difference

new slideshow feature coming along well

wanna be more open about the business side here on fc, dont wanna talk about it much on twitter, different audiences

Gm let’s grind harder than ReelFarm clones today. Like @fun , let’s stay one step ahead of the comp by being innovative, brand-aware, fixated on customer satisfaction and growth oriented.

building reel.farm and farcasterstudio.com

might sound stupid, but pick one event in your product you care about and set up notifications for it right now.

gives you energy. gives you clarity. gives you an automated stream of good news.

could be a purchase, a sign-up, a waitlist join, a transaction, a new follower — whatever makes you feel like it’s moving.

we did this for purchases on LISA and waitlist joins for Intern.

remember reading that early amazon had a bell that rang every time someone bought a book. they had to turn it off eventually — it was going off every second and no one could get any work done.

do the same. turn it off when it becomes unbearable. until then, let it ring.

USDC was launched in 2018. Circled was founded in 2012-13

Good things take time...

Ok fun’s over stop tipping me. 
I mean it. Enough is enough. I’m sick and tired of your tips. This is all just too much. I can’t take the pressure of all the new found wealth. 
Save your money. Buy a house. Buy your mom a house. Buy a gently used Toyota RAV4. Be like @pushix @jrf @jachian and start a family.

Listen up, folks! 🔥 Stack those bags and hold onto eth.deal, btc.catering, cryptoborrow.eth, ai.viajes—we’re the OGs here! 🚀 Build, build, build! 🏗️💎

A sufficiently decentralized social network. farcaster.xyz

in case it's still not obvious:

there's an INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY to 'fork' successful mini apps from the prev era of social networks (ie Facebook) and rebuild them onchain as @farcaster and @worldcoin Mini Apps.

with the increasing abundance of creative x eng AI tools, there's no reason not to ship — it might as well be the Mini App.