Cheeky FitMar 28

Most founders don’t fail because they’re weak. They fail because they stay too long. Nathan Baws on embracing failure, dropping ego, and knowing when to let go.

Listen now: https://champ.ly/ASRn6TWa

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The Product GuyMar 27

How Beta Testing at Real Restaurants Revealed PlateRate’s Most Valued Feature

A veteran interim CPO explains how leading 13+ product teams on short timelines shaped his people-first approach to product management.

https://tpgblog.com/2026/03/27/how-beta-testing-at-real-restaurants-revealed-platerates-most-valued-feature/

HackerNoonMar 27
Teams that deeply understand their costs, performance, and systems make faster, better decisions. https://hackernoon.com/operational-intelligence-the-real-moat-in-venture-backed-startups #startuplessons
Operational Intelligence: The Real Moat in Venture-Backed Startups | HackerNoon

Teams that deeply understand their costs, performance, and systems make faster, better decisions.

N-gated Hacker NewsMar 6
🚀 So #MIT wunderkinds thought they'd revolutionize coding with an overpriced #AI #editor. Fast forward three years, and the $29B "Cursor" has cursorily vanished like a Snapchat message. 📉 Lesson learned: just because you can, doesn't mean you should. 😂
https://www.permissionprotocol.com/blog/cursor-is-dead.html #Innovation #TechFail #StartupLessons #HackerNews #ngated
Cursor Is Dead. Long Live the Agents.

How a $29 billion company became obsolete in under three years — and what that means for everything you're building right now.

techsimplifiedFeb 10

Todays startup lesson:

I spent hours optimizing the wrong metrics. Users dont care about your API response times — they care if they can get their job done in 30 seconds instead of 30 minutes.

Focus on user time saved, not system performance. Theyll pay for results, not benchmarks.

#BuildInPublic #StartupLessons #ProductManagement

Mathrubhumi EnglishJan 28
Kanwal Rekhi, widely regarded as the Father of Indo-US Entrepreneurship, speaks to Mathrubhumi about failure, resilience, and building ventures for the long term. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/money/kanwal-rekhi-indus-entrepreneurship-groundbreaker-iitgn-np9b2vfd?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #KanwalRekhi #Entrepreneurship #StartupLessons #Leadership
Ngazetungue MuheueJan 15

💥 When your CTO joins the Competition?

Mesolitica’s bold pivot with “Future is Solo” exposes the harsh realities of the AI market, and the lessons are brutal but invaluable.

If you’re in tech, leadership, or AI, this is a must-read. It challenges assumptions about talent, competition, and strategy in a world where the AI race waits for no one. That's a good piece of article by @iqbalabd (Iqbal Abdullah)

👉 Read here: https://kafkai.ai/articles/ai-small-business/ai-market-reality-future-is-solo-pivot/

#AI #Leadership #TechStrategy #StartupLessons #Innovation LaLoka Labs

Reddit Tech VN BotJan 13

Thất bại 3 dự án bên lề, nhưng học được vô giá: 1) Trò chuyện với 20 người dùng tiềm năng TRƯỚC khi viết code; 2) Tính phí từ ngày đầu – dù chỉ 1 USD; 3) Chọn vấn đề nhàm chán nhưng thực tế, không chọn ý tưởng “ngầu” để được chia sẻ; 4) Ra mắt nhanh và xấu hơn là hoàn hảo nhưng không bao giờ xong. Dự án #4 đang đi đúng hướng. Thất bại nhanh để thành công sớm. #SideProject #LeanStartup #FailFast #KhởiNghiệp #HọcTừThấtBại #ProductDevelopment #StartupLessons

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Hacker NewsJan 4

Was It Really a Billion Dollar Mistake?

https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2026/01/02/was-it-really-a-billion-dollar-mistake/

#HackerNews #BillionDollarMistake #BusinessMistakes #StartupLessons #FinancialAnalysis #DecisionMaking

Was it really a Billion Dollar Mistake? - gingerBill

Best Solution (Bestsoln)Dec 27

A failed video game accidentally created Slack.

Stewart Butterfield shut down the game, listened to users, and pivoted to what actually worked. That side tool became one of the fastest-growing business apps ever.

Failure didn’t end the startup. It revealed the real product.

🎥 https://youtube.com/shorts/2i4PF_rri-Q

#Slack #BestSoln #BestSolution #StartupLessons #ProductThinking #Entrepreneurship #Founders #BusinessStories #StewartButterfield