Growth @JoinFoundersHub👷‍♂️Testing growth frameworks for fun. Video storyteller, AI explorer, Media + Community, design.
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Support and engineering the moment a user says they have a quick question about the whole system.
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record money is flowing into AI right now, but it's landing in fewer and fewer hands, which tells me the real opportunity for most of us isn't competing on hype, it's picking one narrow problem and solving it so well that people can't imagine working without it.
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Megaa Efifena retweeted
Founders raising their first round: here are 8 funds and programs to put on your radar.
• @AforeVC : $500K to $2M+ at pre-seed
• @2048vc : $500K to $3M at pre-seed and seed
• @arrayvc : $250K to $3M as a first check
• @BoostVC : $500K at pre-seed
• @speedrun : up to $1M through its accelerator
• @ycombinator : $500K through its accelerator
• @Techstars : $220K through its accelerator
• @spc: $1M to $10M across exploration and conviction
Save this for your fundraise.
Megaa Efifena retweeted
if you're raising $500k to $2.5m
reply with what you're building
join our community of founders to get access to opportunities
i don't think we'll ever run out of things to build, not because problems keep showing up
but because every single thing we build quietly opens the door to three more things that now need building.
it's like a cycle that feeds itself.
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Megaa Efifena retweeted
Even in the age of AI, I'm convinced you'll be happier building a company with 1 or 2 humans next to you than one fully run by agents.
Every human needs another human to share the dark nights and tough choices with.
Megaa Efifena retweeted
nobody builds a real company completely alone
even the ones who look like they did
Megaa Efifena retweeted
Founders, before you spend another dollar on tools, check if you qualify for any of these startup credit programs first.
Some of the best ones right now:
@fdotinc — $1M
@googlecloud — up to $350K
@Cloudflare — up to $350K
@databricks — up to $200K
@JoinEdgeCity — $200K
@AnthropicAI — up to $25K
@fabric_vc — $100K
@github — $10K
Worth noting that some require VC backing, residency participation or a partner referral so check the fine print before you apply.
Megaa Efifena retweeted
you're building something real
but the right people may not know you exist yet
drop what you're building below
building in public is just faster learning in disguise, you find out what's broken in days instead of months.
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why don't you just like the post as well to show support to the creator🤔
this will forever be funny to me
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spent the last few days deep in GTM engineering research, systems, workflows, the whole thing, and it clicked that this is just the technical version of what i've been doing since my first job.
different tools, same instinct, build the system that makes people know, like, and trust something before they ever buy it.
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everyone's racing to build with AI, but the real advantage isn't using the tools faster than everyone else, it's knowing exactly what to build because you actually understand the problem.
AI can execute almost anything now, it still can't tell you what's worth building.
nobody warns you that the hardest part of building anything isn't the big moments.
it's staying consistent on the boring days when nothing is happening and no one's watching.
that's actually where everything gets decided.
most people wait for permission to start, a title, a launch, a green light from someone else.
but nobody's actually waiting for you to be ready, they're already moving, so the only real head start left is starting before you feel qualified.
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