Tim Parsa

Startups only work if collaborators believe in the upside that Founders share-- options, RSUs, dividends. They work because those collaborators work hard to execute on the founder's vision. They find users and build product. Users bring validation and feedback. Iteration creates cashflow. Cashflow makes the upside valuable. Without our early users @cadoo would be dead. For Cadoo Season 2...

I've been building tech startups for 25 years, first in Mexico (#2 ISP, first e-peso platform, first multi-channel HD TV system) and for last 10 years in SF (Uphold, Airtm, Cadoo, Slyk). I've never met my goals for success. I've always failed. But I always learn. I want to tell all you indie hackers, startup founders, techno-optimist folks something important: if you're not failing, you're...

Hi PH Founders & Supporters-- I know everyone has a favorite founder/startup that they want to see take the #1 spot. I want to make a case for why we should all upvote XFX --https://www.producthunt.com/posts/xfx-p2p-remittance. XFX is startup built by a founder from Cuba where entrepreneurship is essentially an outlaw activity. Building startups is hard, but building startups in Cuba...

Community isn't a discord server. Or a Slack. Or a meetup. Community is a network bound together by common memes-- the founders' vision-- and aligned economic incentives. The earliest communities were our ancestor's hunter-gather tribes: we shared a common purpose-- survival-- common gods and rituals-- memes-- and we all feasted or starved together-- economic incentives. Tech startups must...

Founders fail because they give up. They give up because the cost/benefit of the startup ceases to make sense. That cost/benefit gets out of whack because founders don't receive the encouragement they need to continue. This encouragement comes in different forms at different stages of the startup: Idea stage: feedback from friends and family on the pitch/project-- founders need to...

Ever wonder why dictators can destroy countries for decades, ruining the lives of tens or even hundreds of millions of people, and yet year after year retain power and continue their corrupt and incompetent reign? Before the internet, there was an information problem-- it was hard to even know what was really going on when a totalitarian dictator controlled all the media. In the USSR there...