The Successful Entrepreneur Business Plan (Wealthy Parent Addition)

Goal: Start a restaurant, maybe something having to do with food trucks or comic books.

Differentiator: Access to capital.

The Plan

Comprised of three sections this plan will address, funding, locations, and operations. Please note the value add strategies sprinkled throughout this plan.

Funding

https://www.masonpelt.com/the-successful-entrepreneur-business-plan-wealthy-parent-addition/

#Entrepreneur

The Verge Agrees, AI Will Break The Internet

James Vincent for The Verge covered my beat, or more aptly beat the same drum, as I today.

Vincent's article is about how AI is ruining the internet is fucking great. Well sourced, and well written. The article also covers something I pointed out a few months ago, that AI will turn the web into a vomit-filled snow glob

https://www.masonpelt.com/the-verge-agrees-ai-will-break-the-internet/

#AI #JamesVincent #OnlineSearch #SEO #TheVerge

High API Fees, A Dying Breath Of Social Media Platforms.

Why are so many social media companies trying to sceeeeeeezzzszzee money out of API fees?

It takes so much value away from users of those platforms, and (most of the time) also from customers.

Its's just bad all around.

https://www.masonpelt.com/high-api-fees-a-dying-breath-of-social-media-platforms/

#API #Fee

The Only Well Designed Things

OXO potato peelers, and curb cuts. Yep, that's right, the only well designed things are OXO potato peelers, and curb cuts. At least based on the examples UX designer like referencing.

https://www.masonpelt.com/the-only-well-designed-things/

#OXOPotatoPeelers #UX

Squarespace Is Buying Google Domains

Willing to bet Google is afraid of an antitrust issue, and Squarespace mostly wanted the technology (security/ DNS management) to sure up issues that they've had for a long time.

Squarespace Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire Google Domains Assets

Squarespace Inc. the design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online, ann

https://www.masonpelt.com/squarespace-is-buying-google-domains/

#Google #Squarespace

Founders Acting Cult Leaders Is Bad For Startups

Worshiping Visionary Leaders Hurts Innovation

People are so hungry for a singular genius who “think different,” that once someone is broadly accepted as a visionary, people will give them credit for ideas they didn’t have. A pile of innovator points awarded by nothing but perception

https://www.masonpelt.com/founders-acting-cult-leaders-is-bad-for-startups/

#ElonMusk #Forbes #Founder #fraudsters #leadership #StartUp #StartupBros

Forbes Councils Are Bullshit

Forbes props up frauds in a lot of ways, and one of those is the Forbes Councils.

Forbes Councils are a scheme, where article below Forbes' normal editorial standards are published by people paying for the privilege.

I don't read articles from the Forbes Councils. Honestly very few people read them as they are a known shamem. But a lot of stupid SEO myths stem from t

https://www.masonpelt.com/forbes-councils-are-bullshit/

#Forbes #ForbesCouncils

Calling For A Moratorium On Calling For A Moratorium On AI

The AI industry is heavily capitalized, and reliant on smoke and mirrors. Calls for regulation and open letters asking for a pause in AI research from leaders of AI companies make headlines every few months. These are not circulating out of genuine fear, they are sel

https://www.masonpelt.com/calling-for-a-moratorium-on-calling-for-a-moratorium-on-ai/

#AI #Deepmind #ElonMusk #EmadMostaque #OpenAI #SamAltman #StabilityAI #VC

Push ROI: When To Walk Away From A Negotiation

My latest for Push ROI, explains a few hard and fast rules for when we will walk away from a negotiation.

When To Walk Away From A Negotiation

People who’ve never worked with startups would be shocked by how often a venture is just some form of fraud. But startups, including those pulling in media attention from Forbes, have an uncanny ability to admit

https://www.masonpelt.com/push-roi-when-to-walk-away-from-a-negotiation/

#law

Redditters Are Fighting Reddit

Some subreddits are taking stand opposing new Reedit API pricing.

Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps

Some of Reddit’s biggest communities including r/videos, r/reactiongifs, r/earthporn, and r/lifeprotips are planning to set themselves to private on June 12th over new pricing for third-party app developers to access th

https://www.masonpelt.com/redditters-are-fighting-reddit/

#JonPorter #Reddit #TheVerge