Hot take:
If the founder doesn’t work on Sundays, the startup won’t get off the ground.
Jack Benzaquen
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Jack Benzaquen
@jackybh
- Billion-dollar idea: Financial planning as a service (FPaaS) for startups: 1. Model building (spreadsheet) and scenario planning (what if) 2. Create & maintain a 13wk cash flow 3. Advice based on financial performance (horiz. & vert. analysis) Anybody building this?
- Replying to @shaunmmaguireMamdani is not stupid, you all are He KNOWS his policies lead to disaster But he plans on giving people what they want (at least to those who think socialism is a good idea) Objective: make the city unlivable so all the good people leave. Then they can reign over the needy
- Replying to @AmeerRosicI am from Venezuela and also see it clearly. I keep warning my American friends, but the naivete is off the charts.
- Replying to @HumzaYousafIf Hamas is the government and they start a war, who’s to blame for the response? If Hamas hides behind civilians, who’s putting them in harms way?
- Replying to @friedbergGreat take @friedberg! Also, blocking port automation is a bit of a crazy ask from them. We should automate them out of a job at 2X the speed.
- Few will admit it, but in business, it's 30% strategy and 70% brute forcing your way forward.
- VCs come and go. Angels are forever.
- Replying to @friedbergHey @friedberg, I am from Venezuela. I moved to the US 11 years ago, escaping “socialism.” I am seeing here EXACTLY what I saw there while a dictatorship was being installed. That’s why we can’t give another term to Democrats before we clean our institutions a bit from extreme
- AM ISRAEL CHAI! 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 Very sad day. We hope for peace, but are being forced into war. Please remember that when Israel responds.
- Do you run a DTC startup? And you sell a consumable CPG? Here’s when to push for scale! 🧵… here🔥we🔥go!
- DTC was born out of the Facebook ads arbitrage from the day. CAC kept going up until it broke the unit economics of DTC, at least for brands with sub $50 AOV. Now you ACTUALLY need to do the hard work of building a BRAND. If your revenue depends on performance marketing, you
- Are you all-in into DTC? Sometimes get jealous of Tech Startups? Valuations, ease of fundraising, the allure of building unicorns! I feel you. 🧵 BUT…