The future of building startups: - MVP speed (1x per month) - AI-accelerated - Superniche is the new niche - Community 1st, software 2nd - No-code 1st, some code 2nd - 10x more automated - Global teams, localized products - 95% dominated by solopreneurs and microentrepreneurs (teams less than 12) - Pop-up digital experiences (apps that only work on certain times) - Needs the marketing holy-trinity to hit escape velocity: 1. product/market fit, 2. content/market fit and 3. community/market fit - Team is half robots , half humans (cc @youneedarobot ) - Accelerated by "boring marketing" (cc @boringmarketer ) - Multiple revenue streams - Design matters. The bar is high - Partnered w/ creators (creators are the distribution) - Feels like a game (levels, status, badges, in-app currency, challenges, collectibles/items) - Purpose-driven moonshots: societal impact matters - Productized agencies to generate cashflow (ex design agency @DispatchDesign ) - Product studios become the norm - 99% of MVPs won't need VC