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2026
07Boring Businesses Make the Best Businesses
Payroll, invoices, cleaning schedules. Nobody dreams about them, but everybody has to do them — and people gladly pay to make them go away. Why unglamorous problems are often the best place to build.
Read Every Word You Sign: Term Sheets for First-Time Founders
Valuation, dilution, liquidation preference, board seats, vesting. The words in a term sheet decide who controls your company and who gets paid. A plain-language guide for first-time founders.
People Don't Pay for Features. They Pay to Do Less.
Most founders sell what their product can do. Customers buy what they no longer have to do. A short essay on the most underrated idea in business: removing work.
Your Real Competitor Is a Spreadsheet
Most software doesn't lose to another startup. It loses to Excel, Google Sheets and a paper notebook. Why that happens, and how to win anyway.
My First Business Teacher: William Christopher Skelley
He taught me how startups really work: the light side, the dark side, and why every founder ends up working for the investors. Then his own story taught me the hardest lesson of all.
Clean Architecture in Practice: How to Structure Large Backend Systems
As backend systems grow, codebases often become harder to maintain. Business logic gets mixed with frameworks, database logic spreads across services, and…
Writing Better Code with SOLID Principles
Modern software systems grow quickly. Without good design practices, codebases become difficult to maintain, extend, and debug. One of the most influential…
2025
03Recommendation System: How Important Is It?
We have been fascinated by social media platforms like TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook. Have you ever wondered how these platforms seem to predict our…
Generative AI Large Language Model – Train From Pre-trained Model
You’ve probaly heard people talk about LLMs – short for Large Language Model – especially since tools like ChatGPT have become popular. But what exactly is…
The Rise of Generative AI: Simplifying Learning
Lately, everyone’s talking about Generative AI. You hear about it everywhere – at the coffee shop, in the office, even from your family. It’s changing how…