A blog.
Validation Mistakes: 6 That Fake Your Market Signal
The 6 validation mistakes that fake your market signal: leading questions, friendly validators, deciding after 5 calls. How to catch each one before you build.
OLVASD EL ▸The Real Cost of Staying in Your Job (It's Not Money)
The real cost of staying in your job: roughly 2,000 hours, 250 Sunday nights of dread and 300 pointless meetings in 12 months. Price it, then stop paying.
OLVASD EL ▸Build a Software Platform With No Budget: 11-Month Rebuild
Build a software platform with no budget: how I lost €250,000 at 45, then rebuilt a €2M platform in 11 months, alone. What losing everything taught me.
OLVASD EL ▸Do You Need a Cofounder? The Data Says No
Do you need a cofounder? No. CB Insights: 65% of high-growth startups fail from cofounder conflict. The equity-split disaster — and the AI alternative.
OLVASD EL ▸Is It Too Late to Start a Business? The 3-5 Year Window
Is it too late to start a business with AI? No - but the window is real: roughly 3-5 years before the advantage of being early is gone. Both sides, honestly.
OLVASD EL ▸First 90 Days Plan: 13 Weeks to a Real Business
The first 90 days plan, week by week: validate in weeks 1-2, build in 3-6, launch in week 10, grow from week 11 - on 10-15 hours a week, still employed.
OLVASD EL ▸Talk to Your Spouse Before Quitting Your Job: 4 Talks
Talk to your spouse before quitting your job: the 4-conversation sequence — trajectory, timing, decision, check-in — that keeps them onside, not ambushed.
OLVASD EL ▸How to Run Growth Experiments (One a Week, 50 a Year)
How to run growth experiments: the 4-part anatomy — hypothesis, test, measure, learn — plus a real write-up that took signup completion from 11% to 19%.
OLVASD EL ▸Launch Week Playbook: Your 7-Day Pre-Launch Plan
The launch week playbook: what to do Monday through Sunday before launch day, plus the exact six-paragraph launch post template that actually converts.
OLVASD EL ▸Build an Audience Before You Launch (Not After)
Build an audience before you launch: two founders ship the same product — one gets 3 signups, the other 48 customers in 3 days. The 5-part engine inside.
OLVASD EL ▸The PRP Method: Brief Claude So It Builds the Right Thing
The PRP method: a 300-word, 4-section brief that turns Claude from a guessing machine into a reliable builder. 20 minutes of writing saves 4-8 hours of rework.
OLVASD EL ▸Validation Signals: Why "Nice Idea" Is a Red Flag
"Nice idea" is the most dangerous phrase in validation: free-only interest, not demand. How to read red, yellow and green validation signals in 20 calls.
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