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Continue reading →: Truth Bombs for Founders: Travis Kalanick Shares WisdomIn a podcast interview titled, Excellence Is the Capacity To Take Pain, David Senra interviews Travis Kalanick about his experiences as a tech founder. Normally I would not spend a post on DailyDime to share video content but Travis’ interview is worth sharing with any founder, especially if you’re in…
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Continue reading →: Razor-and-Blades ModelGive away the razor at cost and get rich on the blades. See how the razor-and-blades model works, who runs it best, and why the customer lock-in matters more than the price. In my experience as a founder, the smartest moves I’ve ever made is picking industries where customers pay…
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Continue reading →: The AI Stack in 2026: A Practical Map, Bottom to TopAI looks like a model race from the top, but the durable economics sit across seven layers, and the company you buy from may own half of them. I regularly compare the same task across several AI models. Each model is unique and has strengths and weaknesses, but the AI…
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Continue reading →: Top 10 AI Use Cases in 2026 (What People Actually Do)AI use is still mostly about words, answers, and everyday work, but images and agents are closing fast. I use four AI apps on a daily basis. Grok handles everyday questions, Claude gets high-stakes writing, Gemini gets the math, and ChatGPT picks up whatever is left. That sounds like a…
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Continue reading →: Quality of Earnings Reports: The $10 Million Reality CheckThe SBA may help finance up to $10 million of your acquisition. But the SBA will not check whether the seller’s EBITDA is real or not. I’ve sat through due diligence from nearly every seat… selling a company I built, writing angel checks, and reviewing deals as a fund investor.…
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Continue reading →: Incorporate Your Business with Your State: A Simple Guide for FoundersStarting a business is the fun part. Incorporating it is the unglamorous paperwork that keeps the fun part from ending in a lawsuit that takes your house with it. In my experience as a small business owner, this is the step people either skip too long or overthink for weeks.…
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Continue reading →: Strategic Sale vs. Recapitalization: A Founder’s GuideWhich Is Better for a Growing Business? A strategic sale vs recapitalization comes down to certainty today versus more upside and risk tomorrow. When I sold my first company to Petco, I learned how quickly a founder can go from owning every decision to owning very few. The choice looks…
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Continue reading →: How to Buy a Domain Name in 2026 Without OverpayingA workable domain takes about twenty minutes to secure and costs less than a burrito, so stop treating it like a fork in the road. Every company I’ve started began the same way: an idea, a name I liked, a domain search, and a few quiet minutes of disappointment. That…
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Continue reading →: How to Check If a Business Name Is AvailableYou can form the LLC, buy the domain, and print the signage, and still not have the legal right to use your own company’s name. It happens all too often. An excited small business owner comes up with the perfect name for their business and 6-12 months down the road…
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Continue reading →: Men Not in the Labor Force: What the 2026 Data ShowsThe unemployment rate improved last month because 264,000 people stopped being counted. I once spent eleven weeks trying to fill one warehouse lead role at a consumer products company I helped build. Four applicants, two no-shows, and a lot of me insisting the labor market was just tight. The real…
