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 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
20 total Tracing Success Patterns Webinar 11/14/2025 by Lee Lorenzen inbound
How Perplexity Lost the AI War competitive-analysis
Services: The New Software growth
Seven Moats That Still Hold in the AI Era competitive-analysis
Rory Sutherland on Alchemy: 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
Why Tourists Skip Philippines Despite Southeast Asia Travel Boom competitive-analysis
Alex Hormozi 2026 Interview: AI, Agencies, Cold Email outbound
Apple Business: a new all-in-one platform for businesses management