brianbreslin

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Director of Student Entrepreneurship at UVA. Run https://www.uvafoundry.com

Serial tinkerer. Occasional Blogger. https://www.brianbreslin.com

Started the largest startup community in SE USA: https://refreshmiami.com

Kellogg MBA.

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Comment · 4 months ago
Can you add founder university affiliation? That's the only thing I begrudgingly pay crunchbase for and its wildly inaccurate.
Comment · 6 months ago
Was this done by claude design? I'm seeing this pattern/style on every output by claude design lately.
Comment · 6 months ago
The side that is most patient (e.g. the one likely to make money) is the one to start with. Once you build up enough on that side you can start being useful to the other side. The key is going to be whether or not this business model makes sense on unit economics too.
Comment · 11 months ago
feels like grift.

i'm sure I'll get downvoted for this comment, but it always feels like a way to enrich themselves.

Comment · 11 months ago
My guess is he sees ICE hauling people out of even the courts when they were attempting to abide by the legal processes and will say f-it, why bother, its safer to not adhere. just my assumption of OP's intent.
Comment · 1 year ago
wasn't tim ferris promoting one of these products years ago? was like a faraday cage for your nether region.
Comment · 1 year ago
Is this a precursor to a viable alternative to any of SpaceX products?
Comment · 1 year ago
Out of curiosity, why were software engineers carved out? Was this a punishment against the tech industry? With 45/47's administration there is always some either profit angle for his friends or retribution angle for something.
Comment · 1 year ago
Does this fundraising only make sense if cursor is planning to jump into the infrastructure side too? To do application hosting layer like Replit.
Comment · 1 year ago
The oral semaglutide (sublingual dissolving) is like 10% as effective as the injected version. But it presumably could be given in higher doses to counteract that. I'd be shocked if the manufacturers aren't working on a more effective non-injectable version.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
You can build a $30k MRR business with 1% the effort you need to build a $30M MRR business. Once you escape a certain size/scale the day to day operations grow in scope. So do you want to deal with HR or payroll? Do you want to have to keep bringing in $100k worth of google ads traffic a month?

The question to think about is can the small idea potentially be big? Or is it a TAM limited scope? Don't forget there is horizontal vs vertical scaling to think about too.

Comment · 1 year ago
Does Kick integrate with my existing quickbooks?
Comment · 1 year ago
are you using lob to print/mail everything?
Comment · 2 years ago

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