Hola, habla statistics? – No? This is for you. I've been talking to many of you, founders, operators, VCs, and pretenders. Thank you for the love and appreciation. I started this retention series because it's something that companies should define and measure from day 0. To my

Missed me? I'm back. Like a disease. Like churn. Just like that feature no one uses but still makes it to the roadmap every quarter. Over the last three weeks since my first post I've talked to at least a hundred of you, hosted a live

Or are you just pretending?  Whenever I ask founders this deceptively simple question, they usually deliver one of two answers: a) A cold hearted, emotionally-bankrupt: “NO”. b) A delusional TED Talk about dreams, soul alignment, and cosmic vibrations.  If you’re in the 1st tier. Do something else. Banking maybe.

No Spanish? no problemo. English version here. No vengo a inspirarte; vengo a desintoxicarte— a des-influenciarte. Hacer doom-scroll en LinkedIn y en startup Twitter (sí, Twitter, así de viejo soy) es la nueva dosis de dopamina de todo fundador que conozco. Esas dos redes son una cámara de eco infinita:

no inglés? no problem. versión en español here. Doomscrolling Linkedin and startup Twitter (yes Twitter I’m that old I guess) is the new dopamine craving for many founders I know. These two are an infinite eco chamber of growth hockey sticks in user growth, see self-reported millions of ARR

Después de la fiesta ZIRP (Zero Interest Rate Policy o, para los panas, “dinero gratis”), el mercado de startups y VC se enfrió y 2023/2024 fueron años particularmente difíciles para levantar capital desde la última crisis financiera en 2008. Un gran aprendizaje de este momento tan particular en la