📈 Growth

🪴 Essays that COULD change your life

niche, dense, and worth every minute..

Mar 24 • Oliver Stafurik

🪴 Building a Startup with Claude Code: Setup

I've decided to brush up on my shelved synthetic data generation startup as a test, and this is how it's going so far..

Mar 19 • Oliver Stafurik

🪴 Your "Messy" Background Is Your Edge

[FREE] Why your chaotic backgrounds can be better than having Stanford on your resume

Jan 8 • Oliver Stafurik

🪴 How Valve rug-pulled half their market

and how to make sure your startup doesn't repeat the same mistakes..

Oct 27, 2025 • Oliver Stafurik

🪴 The founder's paradox

stay stubborn, yet flexible..

Aug 20, 2025 • Oliver Stafurik

🪴 Let's talk startup accelerators

how they work, why they exist, and if they're really worth your time..

Aug 17, 2025 • Oliver Stafurik

🪴 Are second time founders worth it?

here's why there's a disagreement among VCs whether they prefer fresh or experienced founders..

Aug 8, 2025 • Oliver Stafurik

🪴 Sequoia's Arc product-market fit framework

how to win the game of startups..

Aug 1, 2025 • Oliver Stafurik

🪴 Ways startups get first 100 customers

and how to get them to stay..

Jul 24, 2025 • Oliver Stafurik

🪴 How storytelling can fix your pitch deck

Lessons from Chronicle’s $7.5M raise on nailing YOUR narrative..

Jul 16, 2025 • Oliver Stafurik

🪴 Developing *a useful* growth model

And why you simply must build one

Jun 19, 2025 • Oliver Stafurik

🪴 Four pillars of $100M startups

running a successful startup is much more than just having "a great product"..

Apr 26, 2025 • Oliver Stafurik

#nojs-banner { position: fixed; bottom: 0; left: 0; padding: 16px 16px 16px 32px; width: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; background: red; color: white; font-family: -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px; } #nojs-banner a { color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; } This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please turn on JavaScript or unblock scripts