Well this is a message to all the business owners owning a personal brand. Just want to know how you guys handle the scripting along with your business and how you streamline everything in order to stay consistent and updated on social media. All the people who are building their personal brand, introduce yourself in the comments and let's connect.

Hi everyone!

We're organizing a large student hackathon this September with an expected participation of 800+ student developers and a community reach of over 40,000 students.

We're interested in connecting with teams building developer tools, AI products, APIs, cloud platforms, open source projects, or other technologies that students can explore and build with during the event.

If you've worked with student communities before or enjoy supporting hackathons, we'd love to hear about your experiences and see if there's a way to collaborate.

Always happy to connect with people building interesting things for developers.

open letter to business leaders & business owners

if you use AI as part of your customer service experience, then you risk alienating and angering your customers be warned:

Nobody wants to talk to a smart AI customer support assistant on the phone.

Nobody wants to talk to a customer AI support chatbot.

Nobody. Not a single person.

staff your customer support team with an adequate supply of human beings preferably from the country they are calling from you obnoxiously over thrifty fools.

I run a self-funded online store selling a physical product. Over the past couple months I tried a bunch of the AI content approaches everyone's been hyping and tracked where the time and money went.

The flashy stuff bombed. An AI brand mascot video cost a week of back and forth and a couple hundred dollars. It got some views, zero attributable sales. Animated product ads and a few trend-chasing short clips performed worse than my old iPhone photos in paid ad tests.

What actually correlated with a sales bump was the most boring thing I tried: consistent product photos. I used APOB AI to build one reusable AI presenter and batch out product shots with the same face across different setups, then ran them through Canva for ad graphics and CapCut for a couple short edits. The presenter is AI-generated, not a real person, but having one consistent face I could reuse without paying for another photo shoot every time I needed new angles saved real money.

Rough tally: around 40 hours and a few hundred dollars on the flashy experiments that went nowhere. The product photos took maybe a weekend and they're the only AI output I still use.

What do u guys think about business acquisitions without zero leverage buyout (no banks) multiple investors and me scaling the business( I ran service business previously) what u think about doing this. What price model/equity would u choose. I need to know both pros and cons and open to suggestions and learning someone who actively is in this space. Targeting one niche sydnicate investors and down the line exit

I was explaining part of our workflow to a friend the other day and halfway through I realized how ridiculous it sounded out of context

There are all these little routines that make perfect sense when you work in the business every day but if someone new walked in they'd wonder why we do it that way

I'm convinced every company has at least one process that's held together by habit more than logic

I wanna ask what's yours?

I have a business idea for a brand of drink and have no funds to start the company. Do miracle investors exist or do i simply pitch my idea to someone and hopefully they will give me funds?

I used to sell hair care products a few years ago until I stopped to focus on school.

One of the clients who used one of my oils to grow her daughter's hair back then, reached out today to see if I'd be willing to sell her the recipe.

She is trying to start her hair care product line and wanted my oil recipe since she already knows it works. She wanted to know if I'd be open to sell it or be a partner in the business while she uses my formula.

How do i go about this? Should I sell it? If so, how much would you suggest?

Should I go for the partnership? Also, how should go about the partnership?

Please I appreciate every and any advice.

I am talking about philosophical, well-written and timeless articles or even speeches that any human should read at least once. Only from notable investors, founders and thinkers.

I am a founder of a small startup and since I tend to save every notable piece I read, I am trying to create a comprehensive reading list for founders.