Rushik

I'M FEELING SPICY TODAY: Saying the quiet parts out loud: 1. We're in a newsletter bubble. Half the "subscribers" didn't even mean to sign up or don't remember doing so. Most of the readers probably hit delete faster than they open. The ones getting hurt are the advertisers. 2. Solopreneurs = Solo Burnouts. Think you're a one-man/woman army? Cool, give it a year. You'll be so fried you'll hire a team just to get a day off. Many solopreneurs will hire teams and be even more profitable and happy than being a solo-operator. 3. That leads me to my next point. MOST SUCCESSFUL SOLOPRENEURS HAVE TEAMS ALREADY. Which is totally cool 4. People are saying ChatGPT wrapper startups are dead-on-arrival. Couldn't be less true. There's MILLIONS to be made on finding a niche and slapping on AI. 5. Most creator-led productized services will be dead in 18 months. They'll see big jumps of revenue in the first 90 days but churn will eat them alive. And they'll be without a sustainable growth channel. And have big teams to support. with very little work. 6. There's a new generation of X creators that think it's okay to steal content. Some with hundreds of thousands of followers. "Copying is the sincerest form of flattery". No, it's stealing and you aren't adding to the conversation. Being copied is way more interesting than copying. 7. VCs are going to have to figure out what to do in a world where it's so damn easy to bootstrap a business, partner with creators, powered by community, have 60% margins and print mega cash. 8. Building in public is generally a bad idea. Big in semi-private, with your community but out in the open in the early days on X attracts the sharks. 9.MRR charts are whack. Show us your net operating income or nothing. 10. Buying a boring business is...boring but not necessarily in a good way. I know the boomers are retiring but running a network of laundromats sounds like hell to me. Anyone else? -- For more of the keep it real takes, follow me on X @gregisenberg but the good stuff is in my link in bio