Posts by Liam Redmond
Benefits of Maintaining an Organized Property
Organized property is a term widely used but hardly understood. What is organized property? By definition, it is land or real estate that is professionally managed and taken care of. This care extends to all of the property’s needs. A popular example of organized property is a storage locker. These units are carefully maintained and…
Read MoreAI Won’t Replace Trust in Marketing
Generative AI is impressive, but it still misses what matters most in marketing: trust. That’s my stance, and it comes from hard-won experience. As a founder and operator, I’ve watched the hype grow louder while the work of earning trust has not changed. Marketing runs on authenticity, not shortcuts. When content feels fake, people check…
Read MoreThe complete guide to building an MVP with no-code tools
You know you need to ship something to validate your idea, but hiring engineers feels premature, expensive, or slow. You’ve sketched flows in Figma, collected a few “sounds interesting” responses, and now you’re stuck between overthinking and overbuilding. This is the moment where many founders stall. Not because the idea is bad, but because the…
Read MoreWhat great founders do differently in their first 90 minutes of the day: 7 patterns that compound over time
Most founders don’t lose the day at 3 p.m. They lose it before breakfast. The first 90 minutes of your morning quietly decide whether you spend the day reacting to noise or building real leverage. It’s when anxiety is loudest, willpower is highest, and the temptation to “just check Slack” feels harmless but isn’t. After…
Read More‘Ass power!’ Hundreds gather in L.A. to play a video game about donkeys and the resistance
The donkeys are pissed off. Put upon, out of work and victims of decades-long systemic abuse, it’s time, they have decided, to protest. The donkeys, metaphorically, are us. At least that’s the premise of “asses.masses,” a video game played by and for a live audience. It’s theater for the post-Twitch age, performance art for those…
Read MoreHow to split equity among co-founders fairly
You probably didn’t start your company thinking the equity conversation would be the hardest one. But here you are, staring at a blank cap table, knowing that whatever you decide now will quietly shape motivation, resentment, and leverage for years. Too many founders either rush this conversation to avoid awkwardness or default to a “50/50…
Read MoreHow to create a simple marketing strategy for your first year
You know you need “marketing,” but your runway says you can’t afford experiments that take six months to maybe work. You’ve posted a few times on social, sent some cold emails, tweaked the homepage headline, and hoped something would click. Instead, results feel random. That’s normal. Most first-year founders don’t fail at marketing because they…
Read MoreWhat is feature creep (and how to avoid it in your MVP)
If you’ve been building your MVP for more than a few weeks, this will feel familiar. You started with one clear problem to solve. Then a customer suggested a small tweak. An investor asked how it would work for a different use case. A teammate said, “While we’re in there, we might as well add…”…
Read More9 things that feel productive but secretly slow your startup’s growth
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from doing everything right and still not moving forward. Your calendar is full, your Notion is immaculate, your Slack never stops. From the outside, it looks like momentum. Inside, it feels like running on a treadmill set slightly too fast to step off. Most early founders…
Read More9 founder behaviors that quietly erode team trust
Most founders don’t wake up trying to damage trust. In the early days, you’re moving fast, juggling cash flow, hiring before you feel ready, and making decisions with incomplete information. You tell yourself you’ll clean things up later, once things are calmer. But teams don’t experience your intentions. They experience your behaviors. What makes trust…
Read MoreAI’s latest 20-something billionaire got his start at L.A. garage sales
The man set to become one of the world’s youngest artificial intelligence billionaires started his entrepreneurial journey as a bored preteen living in Los Angeles. When Ali Ansari was 12, living with his family in a single room at his aunt’s house in Woodland Hills, his immigrant mother told him to stop wasting time staring…
Read MoreBotox in a war zone — how Ukrainians try to stay sane during Putin’s onslaught
“Even when there’s a war on, people still want to look their best,” says Irina, co-owner of a beauty parlor in the Saltivka district of Kharkiv. She and her husband Vlad opened it a year into the war, when Saltivka was looking somewhat in need of a facelift itself. Its sprawling Soviet housing blocs had been bombed…
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