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Most “communities” launched by startups are dead within a year. Not because community-led growth doesn’t work, but because of how they were launched: as a marketing channel, bolted onto a growth plan, staffed by whoever had spare time, and measured by a metric nobody could connect to revenue. A Slack workspace with 400 members and three messages a week is not a growth strateg...

Your ads are doing their job. People are clicking, visiting your website, and even adding products to their cart, but they’re leaving before completing a purchase. That’s a conversion problem, not an advertising problem, and it’s often fixable without increasing your ad budget. A thorough website audit is the essential first step in identifying opportunities for improvement. ...

Since Paul Graham published “Founder Mode” in September 2024, founders have been handed a tempting new permission slip. Graham, drawing on a talk by Airbnb’s Brian Chesky, argued that the conventional advice to hire good people and give them room to work is often “disastrous” for...

You can build an MVP in a weekend today. AI tools like Lovable and Replit have turned what once required six months and a six-figure budget into something a founder can prototype in a matter of days. So why do so many startups still struggle?

Because the bottleneck was never building. It was choosing. Choosing which customers to serve, which problems to own, which jobs...

The most common question organizations are asking right now is some version of this: How do we make our AI-generated content sound less like AI?

Organizations are investing in voice training, custom style guides, and elaborate prompting systems to make AI-generated content sound more human, more like the firm, and more like the people behind it.

It’s th...