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Website title: The Bootstrapped Founder – How to Start, Run, and Sell a Bootstrapped Business — by Arvid Kahl

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Building in public once helped me sell my company. Today, that same transparency could destroy yours.

That’s not hyperbole. I owe my entire career as a writer, podcaster, and founder to being radically transparent about my business. I shared my Stripe-verified monthly recurring revenue numbers with the world, and that visibility attra...


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A couple things happened these last weeks that brought into sharp focus just how naively we interact with agentic systems — to the point where we get surprised by the consequences of using them.

Anthropic made it very clear in their terms and conditions that their Max plans — the $200 plan and all the others meant to work with tools like C...


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