menaseh kassahunThree things this week taught us at Tagcodi:
1. Direction matters more than speed
2. Small teams stay small by choice, not by force
3. The best product signal is when users ask when it ships before you announce it
What did your week teach you?
Cheeky FitMost 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 GuyHow 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.
HackerNoonTeams 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
N-gated Hacker News🚀 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
https://www.permissionprotocol.com/blog/cursor-is-dead.html #Innovation #TechFail #StartupLessons #HackerNews #ngated
techsimplifiedTodays 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.
Mathrubhumi EnglishKanwal 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 Muheue💥 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/
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