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In my experience at Heylog, I often encountered a common concern from larger customers: they wanted to know our financial runway, or more precisely, how long we were funded. This question wasn't just about our current financial health. It was really about assessing the risk of doing business with an

I'm certain that almost every founder has been told at some point that they need a compelling and bold vision for their company to succeed. After nearly a decade in the industry, I can assert that this is largely a myth propagated by investors. To date, not a single customer

After last week's news on Beeper, the Android app that plans to unify native cross-platform messaging in one single application, that Apple cut their access to iMessage, I reflected on my time at oratio where we built our own WhatsApp Business API years before Facebook/Meta released their official API

This week's OpenAI Dev Day probably killed thousands of startups in less than an hour. See it for yourself: I'm in a WhatsApp group with a few other founders and we discussed the outcome of the announcements made on this day – some of us even directly affected. OpenAI just killed

Sometimes little thought is put into the decision on what to set as default option, sometimes however it can be a major factor contributing to a product's success. Defaults matter, because changing them is oftentimes overlooked by users or not even considered to be relevant enough to do the work.

The other day I read an interesting paper titled Why do Nigerian Scammers Say They are from Nigeria? published by Microsoft Research (!). It immediately caught my interest and, to make it short, the outcome is pretty interesting. Although I have to say that it's worth reading the 14-pages paper that

Of course, not many people want to talk about what steps to follow when they should get divorced or when a co-founder leaves a company. But this is exactly the reason why such contracts are made in the first place. Setting aside emotions and ego, and diligently drafting these contracts

Assholes come in many forms. They can be your customers, investors, colleagues, advisors and sometimes family and friends – though I hope your judgment in friendship is sound. Now in my mid-30s, I've sharpened my skill of saying "No", particularly when it comes to dealing with assholes. And don't get me

Of course, putting an exact factor like 1:3 to life in a startup vs. life in a corporate can only be a guess, but I think the logic still holds true. By the very definition of a company pre product market fit, constant iteration and quick learning in a