A blog.
When to Kill Your Business Idea (and When to Pivot)
When to kill your business idea: when 20 conversations say the market is not there. Three months and 1,200 euros beats six months and 40,000. Or pivot instead.
OLVASD EL ▸Get Your First 10 Customers (Before Launch)
Get your first 10 customers by hand: a 30-minute sales call structure, sold to an audience you build in parallel with the product — 4 to 6 hours a week.
OLVASD EL ▸Three Paths Out of Corporate: Software, Service, Portfolio
Three paths out of corporate — a software product, a service business, or a portfolio of small bets. Timelines, ceilings, and how to pick yours, in numbers.
OLVASD EL ▸Should I Raise Money for My Startup? The Dilution Math
Should I raise money for my startup? For 99% of founders, no. The dilution math, round by round: a €100M VC exit pays you €35M — a €25M bootstrap pays €25M.
OLVASD EL ▸The Vibe Coding Trap: Why AI Projects Die at Month 3
The vibe coding trap: AI projects feel magical until month 3, when every new feature breaks three old ones. Why they hit the cliff, and the fix that works.
OLVASD EL ▸Never Take the Counter-Offer: How to Resign the Right Way
Never take the counter-offer: about a third of resigning employees get one. Why you should always decline, the exact refusal script, and how to resign well.
OLVASD EL ▸When to Quit Your Job to Start a Business: Your Quit Number
When to quit your job to start a business: three quit-number formulas, the 1.2x salary rule, the 6-12 month cushion, and why you refuse the counter-offer.
OLVASD EL ▸ICE Scoring: How to Prioritize Growth Experiments
ICE scoring ranks growth experiments by Impact × Confidence ÷ Ease, each scored 1–10. How to use it to pick the one experiment worth running this week.
OLVASD EL ▸How to Validate a Business Idea in 20 Conversations
How to validate a business idea: 20 real customer conversations in 2 weeks. The exact script, the questions never to ask, and why "nice idea" means kill it.
OLVASD EL ▸Where to Launch Your Product: Product Hunt vs LinkedIn
Where to launch your product: Product Hunt, LinkedIn, Hacker News or Indie Hackers? Pick by audience match — with the exact timing tactics for each one.
OLVASD EL ▸Email Nurture Sequence: The Only 3 Emails You Need
An email nurture sequence in 3 emails — day 0, day 3, day 7 — written once in about an hour, running on autopilot forever. Full templates inside, annotated.
OLVASD EL ▸AI Coding Mistakes: 4 Ways Claude Sabotages Your Codebase
AI-generated code can work today and quietly fail in month six. The 4 AI coding mistakes to refuse — JSON blobs, enums, any types, silent errors — explained.
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