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This Indie Life

James McKinven and Dagobert Renouf

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Dagobert spent 5 years and $100K+ to bootstrap a startup and failed with a massive burn out. Every week he invites a new founder to talk about the dark side of entrepreneurship.
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Built This Week

Jordan Metzner, Samuel Nadler

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Built This Week is a weekly podcast where real builders share what they're shipping, the AI tools they're trying, and the tech news that actually matters. Hosted by Sam and Jordan from Ryz Labs, the show offers a raw, inside look at building products in the AI era—no fluff, no performative hype, just honest takes and practical insights from the front lines.
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Leveling Up is a weekly interview series with entrepreneurs and marketers on the latest in business and marketing. Learn actionable strategies & tactics on how you can make your business grow and mistakes to avoid during your journey. Learn from individuals who have founded billion dollar companies to best-selling authors. Entrepreneur and host Eric Siu also shares insights and learnings along the way.
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Indie Hackers

Courtland Allen and Channing Allen

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Courtland and Channing Allen interview the ambitious indie hackers who are turning their ideas and side projects into profitable online businesses. Explore the latest strategies and tools founders are using to capitalize on new opportunities, escape the 9-to-5 grind, and create their own personal revenue-generating machines. The future is indie!
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A weekly podcast by two indie hackers, Marc and Matt. They share their ups and downs of building their bootstrapped online businesses. They prefer to show instead of teach, so you get to see the real story about what it's like to “startup to something” - raw and unpolished.
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Founder Reality with George Pu. Real talk from a technical founder building AI-powered businesses in the trenches. No highlight reel, no startup theater – just honest insights from someone who codes, ships, and scales. Every week, George breaks down the messy, unfiltered decisions behind building a bootstrap software company. From saying yes to projects you don't know how to build, to navigating AI hype vs. reality, to the mental models that actually matter for technical founders. Whether yo ...
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Grant Trahant interviews early stage founders and product creators for insight on features and strategies they use to scale. Topics include no-code, sass, bootstrapping, content creation, solo entrepreneurship, freelancing, and tons more.
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Hacker Anthology

Hacker Anthology

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Hacker Anthology is what happens when you inject fiction into the command line of reality. Faction stories — part fact, part fiction — spun from real-world headlines, startup chaos, cyber leaks, and tech drama. Imagine HackerNews got drunk with Black Mirror, and they started roleplaying historical fiction. That’s us. We take raw internet lore — a GitHub repo flame war, a VC meltdown, an obscure RFC gone rogue — and remix it into cinematic short stories told from the POV of AI misfits, termin ...
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Expert on Tap

Sean Hussey

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Expert On Tap is a smart, laid-back tech podcast where founders, developers, and startup minds share real stories over a cold drink. Hosted by Sean Hussey, each episode blends tech insight, startup lessons, and honest conversation—served with craft beer, cocktails, or whatever’s on tap. Whether you’re building your first SaaS, scaling a team, or just love a good product story, this show is your casual corner of the tech world.
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Building a company is hard. We share real, grounded conversations with people doing just that. From solo devs to venture-backed founders. Hosted by Dave Berner (co-founder of Kinde), this podcast skips the playbook talk and gets into what building actually looks like day to day.
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Indie Bites

James McKinven

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Short, bite-sized conversations with indie hackers that have started small, profitable and bootstrapped businesses. You'll learn how they come up with ideas, what they do to validate, find those first customers and make a sustainable income. Episodes every Tuesday.
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Do you want to learn how to master all areas of your life? If yes, this is the podcast for you! Through in-depth conversations, you will learn from those who are mastering a specific area of their lives, whether it be business, wealth, health, relationships, social leadership, or spirituality. Each episode features one successful leader who is an expert in a particular area of his or her life. Through their backstories, you will uncover the mistakes and lessons they made along their journey ...
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Make better and faster decisions in response to far-reaching market shifts in business and technology. Featuring content from our 6Pages subscription service, a new kind of market intelligence for professional decision-makers. Learn more and sign up for free summaries of our deeply researched briefs on 6Pages.com.
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The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig

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Tim Ferriss is a self-experimenter and bestselling author, best known for The 4-Hour Workweek, which has been translated into 40+ languages. Newsweek calls him "the world's best human guinea pig," and The New York Times calls him "a cross between Jack Welch and a Buddhist monk." In this show, he deconstructs world-class performers from eclectic areas (investing, chess, pro sports, etc.), digging deep to find the tools, tactics, and tricks that listeners can use.
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The Reconfigured Podcast is a show that explores the intersection of technology, culture, and society which is hosted by Mohamad Kalaaji (technolaaji). We bring professionals to talk about their extended experience or discuss about a topic that might be interesting. All of our episodes are available for free to the general public at no additional cost
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Ready to level up your business? The Business Game, A Podcast That Moves The Needle, delivers unfiltered insights from global industry leaders, startup founders, and innovators who’ve built thriving companies. Join us for exclusive interviews packed with real-world case studies, proven strategies for scaling, and hard-earned lessons from the trenches of entrepreneurship. Whether you’re a small business owner, aspiring entrepreneur, or corporate innovator, our weekly episodes—also available a ...
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Startup Hunter

Hunter Peress

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Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee for startups (also on youtube!) My name is Hunter Peress and I am in the trenches and on the hunt for new and exciting startups....or failed startups with new and exciting founders. Join me on my journey to walk and talk with the people who are not happy with the way things are and are highly motivated to do something about it
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The PR Playbook Podcast

Silver Telegram, Ronjini Joshua

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The PR Playbook is a podcast focused on helping you elevate your brand using modern public relations strategy and tactics including paid/earned media, digital marketing, social media and other forms of marketing. Episodes come from my personal experiences over the past 18 years in high-tech public relations and as an agency owner for the past nine years. This podcast is dedicated to offering you actionable advice and tools that you can apply to your internal comms programs ASAP. Improve your ...
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Biz vs Dev

James Robert and Mik Pozin

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One Hacker. One Business guy. Entirely confrontational. A weekly podcast on the topics of Business, Development, and Business Development.
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Growth Hacking Series

Nader Sabry - Ready Set Growth

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The growth hacking series helps answer the basic questions about what is growth hacking, why it's important, how it works, when it works best, the best tools, resources and growth hacking courses to take. If you are a growth marketer, a growth hacker, or responsible for growth at your organizations whether a startup, a corporate or a government this is for you. This series helps quickly and effectively unlock key elements related to growth hacking.
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Indie Worldwide is where indie hackers come to meet other indie hackers. Every week we interview a successful startup founder, indie maker, or bootstrapper and find out how they did it. Each episode is packed with actionable growth strategies and proven tactics for building your indie startup. Catch our recorded interviews here, or check out one of our multiple monthly live meetups: https://indieworldwide.co/ See you there 🌎🌍🌏 Hosted by Anthony Castrio
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Heresy

Dimitar Stanimiroff

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Thinkers. Builders. Rebels. Big ideas from the edge of tech and beyond. Hosted by Dimitar Stanimiroff, Heresy started with a simple goal: learn from the sharpest minds in SaaS GTM. It’s grown into a show that follows curiosity across domains—tech, startups, investing, science, and philosophy. Past guests include Jason Lemkin (SaaStr), Aaron Ross (Predictable Revenue), Philip Su (ex-Meta, OpenAI) and execs from Uber, Box, Twilio, and Stack Overflow. New episodes drop regularly.
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Welcome to Shut the Backdoor, brought to you by Redox. Shut The Backdoor is a healthcare security podcast dedicated to keeping health data safe, one episode at a time. Hosted by Jody Maberry and Meghan Mcleod and featuring special guests to discuss the most critical topics for healthcare security.
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Onboarding Therapy

Arrows Podcast Network

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Customer onboarding in B2B SaaS is changing fast, but the resources for onboarding teams? Not so much. That's why we're kicking off Onboarding Therapy, a podcast that tackles the real challenges onboarding teams face every day.
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Welcome to the Code and Conquer Podcast, hosted by Tobias Arweiler, indie hacker and founder of Ice Bear Labs. Join us as we dive into the fascinating world of indie hackers, exploring their journeys, challenges, and triumphs. Every episode features a one-on-one conversation with a unique entrepreneur, focusing on their experiences, wisdom, and insights. From $0 MRR to successful startups, learn from these inspiring stories and discover what it takes to turn your dreams into reality. Grab a ...
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This podcast is for anyone wanting more… More time & energy. More fulfilment and success. More of the high-performing, purposeful, all-out version of life they know they could and should be living. The method is simple… to give you the proven strategies to live, feel & function at your best, by sharing personal strategies to optimising success on a daily basis, and intimately exploring the lives & minds of the world’s leading Sports Stars, CEOs, Special Forces Operatives & Performance Expert ...
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A newly identified Android spyware targeted Galaxy devices for close to a year, including users in the Middle East, researchers exclusively tell TechCrunch. In addition, the congressional research office confirmed a breach, but did not comment on the cause. A security researcher suggested the hack may have originated because CBO failed to patch a f…
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I Wasted 6 Years Building in Stealth Mode (Why Content Is Your Only Moat Left) For six years, I thought being public about my business meant sacrificing privacy and competitive advantage. I thought I needed VC funding to earn the right to talk. I thought competitors were winning because they stayed stealth, so I should too. I was wrong on all three…
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When you build a software business as a founder, you have a dream. Building. Features. APIs. UIs. But how much of that is JUST a dream, and what REALLY leads to paying customers? This episode of The Bootstraped Founder is sponsored by Paddle.com You'll find the Black Friday Guide here: https://www.paddle.com/learn/grow-beyond-black-friday The blog …
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The proposal received more than 75% approval. Musk can earn the $1 trillion in shares over the next 10 years if Tesla hits a number of milestones. Plus Musk said he expects Tesla to be able to put all the Cybercabs it builds on the road, and thanked Waymo for 'paving the path.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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The Consumer Product Safety Commission is warning Peloton users to stop using the affected bikes immediately. Also, Snap said today that it has signed a deal with AI-powered search engine Perplexity to power a new chatbot. As part of the deal, Perplexity will pay Snap $400 million in cash and equity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastc…
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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/r-systems-blogbookchapter-1-round-3-is-now-open-for-submissions. Enter Round 3 of R Systems BlogBook to write on WebAssembly or GenAI, win prizes, and be published on HackerNoon. Submissions window: Aug 11 - Sept 10, 2025. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: htt…
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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/inside-the-data-what-shapes-startup-deal-sizes-in-africa. Data-driven study uses machine learning to reveal the key factors influencing African startup deal amounts and investment outcomes. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-storie…
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I’ve completely rebuilt my SEO playbook for 2025. In this video, I’ll show you how AI agents, Model Context Protocols, and multi-instance workflows are reshaping how I approach search. In this talk. - Why programmatic SEO still wins - How Search Everywhere Optimization builds brand demand - Why retention is now more important than distribution I’ll…
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Australia now has so much solar power that the government will require utilities to sell customers free electricity for three hours per day. Apple is turning to Google's technology to help revamp Siri and power a slate of upcoming features for the voice assistant. Blue Origin's first New Glenn launch in January mostly went well, and now the long-de…
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Send us a text Cyber attacks can start for just $1... and go undetected for months. In this episode of The Business Game Podcast, cyber security expert Shantanu Bhattacharya (CEO of Cyber Cure) reveals how his patent-pending technology detects 96% of data breaches in just 3 days, and how businesses can protect themselves from dark web attacks, insi…
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Researchers at Microsoft have developed a new simulation environment for testing AI agents, revealing surprising weaknesses in the current state-of-the-art. Also, Penn experienced a data breach on Friday as hackers sent messages boasting of the hack to the university community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/a-practical-guide-to-scaling-real-time-video-infrastructure. Learn how to scale real-time video streaming with FFmpeg & MediaMTX—architecting for performance, reliability, and global reach. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-storie…
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I break down how AI is reshaping marketing roles and what the top 10% of marketers are doing right now to stay ahead. In this video I'm unpacking the rise of AI orchestrators, autonomous workflows, and the creative and strategic skills machines can’t replace. The shift isn’t about disruption anymore, it’s about abundance. Key takeaways: • AI won’t …
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Why Learning How to Learn Is Your Only Competitive Advantage Left I sat in that accelerator orientation listening to them brag about mentors who'd been teaching entrepreneurship for 15+ years. Everyone clapped. I was terrified. These were people with employee mindsets teaching the same frameworks from 2010. In an AI-first world where anyone can bui…
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The Information reports that Anthropic expects to generate as much as $70 billion in revenue and $17 billion in cash flow in 2028. The growth projections are fueled by rapid adoption of Anthropic’s business products, a person with knowledge of the company’s financials said. And despite its imprecision, the fourth "Master Plan" is a centerpiece of T…
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David Baszucki is the founder and CEO of Roblox. TIME named Roblox one of the “100 Most Influential Companies,” and it has been recognized by Fast Company for innovation on their “Most Innovative Companies” and “Most Innovative Companies in Gaming” lists. This episode is brought to you by: Qlosi prescription eye drop used to treat age-related blurr…
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Meta said that Facebook Dating has 1.77 million daily active users in the US between ages 18-29. Also, core parts of the ClickUp release were possible because of its acquisition of Qatalog. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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AI agents can burn through budgets and trust in minutes. Eric Olden, Co-Founder and CEO of Strata Identity, breaks down the control plane founders need: policy-driven guardrails, intent/context/outcome audit, and lifecycle governance—so you can move from sandbox to production with confidence. Eric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/boughtnotsold Strata I…
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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/how-pain-can-help-explain-ai-sentience. Could AI ever feel pain? Explore the ethics, science, and moral dilemmas behind artificial suffering and machine consciousness. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check …
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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/byrrgis-founder-mass-adoption-wont-happen-until-we-fix-these-defi-problems. Talk Is Cheap, Actions Define You": How Byrrgis Is Rewriting DeFi Trust Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content ab…
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My Worst Hires Almost Destroyed Us (Here's What I Learned) After scaling from 15 people down to 4, then back to 5, I've never shared my actual hiring criteria. Today I'm telling you about the engineer who took unlimited PTO during his wedding while our engineering delivery collapsed, the sales guy who learned to sell to us, and the contractor who t…
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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/asciidoc-when-markdown-just-isnt-cutting-it. Markdown is amazing, but it has strong limitations. Asciidoc is the perfect tool to fill Markdown's gaps. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content…
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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/when-even-the-cloud-caught-a-cold-inside-the-aws-and-azure-outages-of-2025. In October 2025, AWS and Azure suffered major outages, exposing the fragility of the cloud and redefining resilience for modern internet infrastructure. Check more stories related to tech-stories a…
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Elon Musk and Sam Altman are still taking swipes at each other on Musk’s social media platform X. Also, a majority of consumers say they’re worried about data centers driving up electricity costs. Is the industry prepared for a possible backlash? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/why-power-flexible-ai-just-became-table-stakes. The questions investors should ask about AI data centers just changed. Why power flexibility is now table stakes for infrastructure deployment. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stor…
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Send us a text Join our hosts on The Business Game, a podcast that moves the needle, as they unlock the secrets of modern marketing success. This power-packed episode features proven marketing strategies from top industry experts who've launched multi-million dollar campaigns, mastered social media marketing, and leveraged AI to dominate their comp…
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Hi everyone – welcome to your 3 Shifts Edition [AI-generated audio version]. First, there’s been a steady stream of white-collar layoff announcements from companies like Amazon, Meta, YouTube, Goldman Sachs, and Target. If we dig down, however, into why these companies are laying off white-collar workers, the rationales are nuanced. Next, OpenAI ha…
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Semiconductor giant Nvidia is looking to invest at least five hundred million dollars and up to one billion dollars in Poolside which builds AI models for software development. That’s according to reporting from Bloomberg, which cited sources. This investment would be part of a two billion dollar funding round Poolside is raising at a twelve billio…
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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/building-a-cloud-native-data-lake-integrating-apache-seatunnel-with-aws-s3-tables-and-iceberg-rest. Easily integrate your data into Amazon S3 Tables with Apache SeaTunnel! Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also ch…
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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/holiday-shopping-trends-to-watch-in-2025-what-the-data-tells-us-about-consumer-expectations. Discover 2025 holiday shopping trends. Shoppers start early, Black Friday loses appeal, and hybrid shopping is on the rise. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://h…
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Episode 19: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall… Who Built the Smartest AI of All? It’s a spooky special! Sam Nadler (a.k.a. Bad Bunny) and Jordan Metzner (the resident vampire) celebrate Halloween with a pair of AI-powered builds that bring equal parts fun and fright. First, they unveil Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, a poetic, Gemini-powered “talking mirror” …
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Why I Changed My Mind About Multiple Products (And You Should Too) For years, I preached single product focus. "Build one thing really well," I'd tell founders. Today, I'm running SimpleDirect with four product lines and ANC with three consulting verticals. What changed? Everything. This episode breaks down why the season has shifted from single pr…
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In this episode, I break down how Model Context Protocols (MCPs) are turning AI from a buzzword into a profit center. Think of them as “mini AI employees” that can run CRO experiments, power sales intelligence, revive lost leads, track competitor ad spend, scale SEO content, and turn messy reports into clear business insights. You’ll see how these …
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The brutal truth about SaaS nobody tells you. Here’s the thing: I’m about to share all the reasons why you should never, ever start a software business. And yes, I’m fully aware that I’m talking to an audience of software founders. This is somewhat sarcastic, somewhat ironic twist on the great things about entrepreneurship. And the problems you'll …
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“The dead internet theory is real,” Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian told Digg founder Kevin Rose, referring to the idea that much of the internet isn’t human — it’s mostly bots. The two entrepreneurs have since teamed up to re-envision how to build a social community in this world where, very soon, it will be hard to tell bot from human. Also, Can…
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Design platform Figma said today that it has acquired AI-powered image and video generation company Weavy. The startup will join Figma under a new brand called Figma Weave. Also, Threads continues to ship new features at a rapid pace. Shortly after the launch of communities and disappearing “ghost posts,” the social networking app on Thursday intro…
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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/build-your-own-mcp-server-with-python-and-sevalla. Learn how to build, deploy, and extend your own Model Context Protocol (MCP) server using Python and Sevalla to let AI models securely access real-world data. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackerno…
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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-us-department-of-energy-and-amd-agree-to-$1-billion-supercomputer-partnership. The U.S. Department of Energy and AMD have announced a $1 billion partnership to create two supercomputers, Lux and Discovery. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackerno…
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VortexNet uses actual whirlpools to build neural networks. Seriously. By borrowing equations from fluid dynamics, this new architecture might solve deep learning's toughest problems—from vanishing gradients to long-range dependencies. Today we explain how vortex shedding, the Strouhal number, and turbulent flows might change everything in AI. Spons…
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With Uplift, every subscription will contribute to neighborhood-level network expansion, while local hosts that are known as "AirNode operators" will earn a portion of network revenue by providing community coverage. Also, while San Francisco's mayor Daniel Lurie is opening his arms to autonomous vehicles, other cities are more resistant. Boston, f…
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Andrew Gazdecki is the founder of Acquire, previously known as MicroAcquire, the largest startup acquisition marketplace. I’ve spoken to many indie hackers about selling their businesses, many of whom have done so using Andrew’s platform. Before starting the Acquire, Andrew spent 8 years bootstrapping Bizness Apps to $10m ARR before being acquired …
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Send us a text Join hosts Kalena and Steve on The Business Game, a podcast that moves the needle, as they sit down with Greg Cassar from Collective Mastermind to uncover the exact strategies he used to generate over $500 million in online sales. Greg reveals his proven growth hacker model, the B+I wealth formula that transformed his financial futur…
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The U.S. inked Technology Prosperity Deals (TPD) with Japan and South Korea with an eye towards spurring collaboration on AI, semiconductors, quantum computing, biotech, space, 6G and other technologies. Character AI is ending its chatbot experience for kids. After facing lawsuits and public outcry following the suicides of two teenagers, Character…
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Jack Canfield is the coauthor of more than two hundred books, including, The Success Principles™: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be and the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, which includes forty New York Times bestsellers and which has sold more than 600 million copies in 50-plus languages around the world. This episode is brou…
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