Startups & Strategy
Lessons on building companies - strategy, sales, operations, hiring, and growth. Notes from founding and running multiple ventures with a bootstrapped mindset.
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Curator's note
Notes from building and running multiple companies. Covers strategy, positioning, sales, operations, and hiring. Biased toward bootstrapped and capital-efficient approaches.
My content
Video
AI for Tourism & Hospitality: What Actually Works (No Hype) 2026
How do you actually use AI to grow a tourism or hospitality business? Not the hype. Real systems that make money.
Blog Held hostage by mistake: my bizarre extortion story with a Cambodian vape shop
How a one-star Google review on my business led to a bizarre extortion attempt from a Cambodian vape shop, and the sophisticated scam network behind it all.
Curated insights
18 total Services: The New Software growth
Seven Moats That Still Hold in the AI Era competitive-analysis
Rory Sutherland - Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense positioning
Rory Sutherland's 2026 Predictions positioning
AI Is Cutting Junior Tech Hiring 35% While Senior Demand Grows hiring
Tourists Are Skipping Philippines, Despite Travel Boom In Southeast Asia. Why? | Insight competitive-analysis
Alex Hormozi 2026 Interview: AI, Agencies, Cold Email outbound
Introducing Apple Business - a new all-in-one platform for businesses of all sizes management
Seven Economies Forming Around AI Adoption Levels growth
AI Lead Finders That Scrape Google Maps for Local Businesses outbound