wait till you guys see what he cooked for @adspacesfun

day 10 of building @adspacesfun for @colosseum worldfair.

why do brands spend $10k on a billboard when they could sponsor 100 tech guys laptops?

An uncomfortable truth: founders need the patience to stay focused long enough to survive to find PMF, while also waking up every day with a burning urgency to find PMF quickly. Holding both mindsets can be uncomfortable. Founders need to get comfortable being uncomfortable.

advertising is broken cuz attention moved, but the infrastructure didn’t.

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> born in iowa, raised in small-town wisconsin > studied computer science at university of illinois > worked as a student programmer at ncsa > at 21, co-created mosaic, the first visual web browser that made the internet human-friendly > moved to the bay area right after graduation > teamed up with billionaire jim clark > at 22, co-founded netscape > launched netscape navigator, taking over the web almost overnight > in 1995, netscape ipo'd at age 24, valued at nearly $3B on day one > single-handedly ignited the dot-com boom > fought microsoft in the legendary browser wars > sold netscape to aol for $4.2B in stock > instead of retiring, co-founded loudcloud with ben horowitz in 1999 > built cloud infrastructure a decade before aws took over > survived the dot-com crash, took it public, pivoted to opsware > sold opsware to hp for $1.6B in 2007 > started writing early angel checks into facebook, twitter, linkedin > in 2009, launched andreessen horowitz (a16z) with ben horowitz > 2011: penned the legendary "why software is eating the world" > backed stripe, airbnb, github, coinbase, figma, databricks, openai > grew a16z into one of the most powerful venture firms in history > author of "it's time to build" and the "techno-optimist manifesto" > spent over three decades building, backing founders, and pulling the future forward marc andreessen @pmarca , ladies and gentlemen

started reading the 'hard thing about hard things' and just found out @pmarca was the same age as me 22, when he cofounded netscape.

one of the best pictures to remind yourself what conviction costs.

make something so good you want to put it on everything you own.

day 9 of building @adspacesfun for @colosseum worldfair. the day was all about redefining the frontend and edge cases.

i've started writing something more around the ideas and mental models i find interesting on the internet notcodesid.com/ideas/

no, he is not selling ads. he is just proving attention is everywhere @adspacesfun

there's a telegram channel by @stacy_muur called "GTM in public" where she drops experiments, data, tools, what actually works, and her thoughts, of course. loving every single message in it.

"the great thinkers were always great walkers" need to get my number up to at least 15k/day

day 8 of building @adspacesfun for @colosseum worldfair. ps. today was basically back-to-back dms and hopping on calls.

You have to genuinely be excited about the thing. If you’re not excited about it then what you’re doing selling it? It’s miserable life if you’re selling thing that you don’t care about.

Tonight, @SuperteamMY co-hosted a session with @ryantjhin_ and had @mattytay in da house 🏛️ @colosseum co-founder, spilling how to actually win Colosseum here's what the G said 👇 (if you're in Colosseum and skip this… I don't know why you're still participating. no point, you will lose) 1/ it's not a hackathon. it's a startup competition. no bounties. no weekend side projects. they want the top 0.1% of builders willing to quit their jobs. bring an existing project, pivot mid-way, or start fresh. evolving an idea across hackathons = encouraged. resubmitting the same thing unchanged = not. 2/ the pitch video gets watched FIRST 2 min hard limit. judges want to know who you are before anything else. cover: → who you are + why you're building this → the insight you found → product, user, early demand → what you built + why those features → the big vision technical deep-dive goes in the demo video. get on camera. AI narration is fine if English isn't your first language. 3/ what judges actually look for → deep domain knowledge + a non-obvious insight → a novel angle (don't just clone Polymarket) → ideas that failed before but work NOW → obsession + commitment → real retention > incentive-farmed users the big filter: can this be venture-scale? a great restaurant is a good business. it's not a startup. 4/ the #1 thing founders forget: your first users "we'll tweet about it" is not a plan. best products have growth built in, like Axiom's referrals or FOMO's social features. 5/ after you submit, KEEP BUILDING first interview question is often "what have you done since the hackathon?" thousands of submissions → a few hundred deep reviews → ~150–200 interviews → stack-ranked for winners + investment 6/ quick facts → open to all chains, but the accelerator stays mostly Solana → $250K standard deal, ~10 teams per cohort → solo founders OK, co-founders preferred (there's a matching tool) → non-technical OK if you're good with AI coding tools → tokens aren't a dealbreaker, but they're a one-way door → university + public goods awards open to all chains save this. read it before you submit. 12 Oct is coming fast ⏳ LFG 🇲🇾🔥 Having this while still coworking with @semiii @vesper792 in @SuperteamMY office is crazyy