Alexander Shartsis
Recent posts focus on AI & automation, fundraising & growth and sales strategy.
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Anyone have knowledge base and chat software they like? Feels like it's time to explore other options. The thing with Intercom's startup program is they bundle in a lot of stuff you don't need, and then give you 93% of…
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My cofounder and I were thinking about quitting. Then a customer asked for a call. I figured: this is it, churn. Startups are hard. If you don't think about quitting, you have never been a founder. Bootstrapping is 10…
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My father, Art Shartsis, passed away on July 14, at the age of 80. It was expected. His time was clearly near. I'm grateful that his whole family had a chance to say goodbye. It was also not expected. His parents liv…
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I feel bad for law firms right now. Especially ones that sell to startups. Because, Claude. And Stripe Atlas. To you lawyers who are going to jump on this post - by all means, please do, it is meant as rage bait - I'm…
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I'm more than fine with automation on Linkedin. Frankly I'd be a little disappointed if you're not. But when you get a reply from a human, that's where it should stop. This is not fooling anybody. No human has asked me…
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Looking for an AI revops expert. Someone to talk to who knows how to GSD with modern AI tools in internal finance. Anyone I should talk to?
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I feel bad for law firms right now. Especially ones that sell to startups. Because, Claude. And Stripe Atlas. To you lawyers who are going to jump on this post - by all means, please do, it is meant as rage bait - I'm…
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I've done both the 2-person AI pilled team and the big sales team + management thing in the AI age. Both are awesome in different ways, but I can't shake one thing: Focus is all that matters. Running a 2-person AI star…
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Congrats Tom Sun and the entire team at AmpUp on the acquisition!
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Saying no is a superpower for startups. Take Elon. What founder would say no to Delta Airlines? Elon did. Sure SpaceX needs to make lots of money to live up to its insane valuation. But being principled in turning…
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Saying no is a superpower for startups. Take Elon. What founder would say no to Delta Airlines? Elon did. Sure SpaceX needs to make lots of money to live up to its insane valuation. But being principled in turning…
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Just because an investor is famous and successful doesn't mean he won't be a dick to founders, even in his own portfolio. Vinod Khosla just called the CEO of a company he has invested in "a struggling second tier compet…
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all of this talk about which model is best, or how great the new one is misses a key point they're all good enough now. we are at the iphone 7 moment It does all the things it needs to do it's waterproof anything extra…
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You want to get your startup acquired? Here's how. 1. Be named Max. Like maximus greenwald or Max Mitcham 2. Build something in the GTM space 3. Call up HubSpot, tell them about 1 and 2. BOOM! On a more serious note…
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If you ever wonder what a key difference is between successful people/companies, and unsuccessful... Just try. Courtesy of Brendon Cassidy
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To all the founders who want to quit or shut down to go do AI: STFU. You are probably too smart for your own good, and <25 yo I have nothing against youth. But with age comes some wisdom, whether you sought it out or w…
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Are you pro-Miro or pro-Fin? Take a nice (but disappointing) payout, or bet the company and go all in on AI? I know where Brendon Cassidy stands on this. What about everyone else? My $0.02 is–it depends. For Fin it…
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Congrats to Tom Willerer and other friends at Miro on the Bending Spoons acquisition. Whatever anyone says about valuation, building a company worth $1bn is no mean feat. There used to be the attitude that, when you sel…
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Human capital is reallocating itself. To AI. Peter Walker and Dasha Shunina both hopped over to OpenRouter from trad companies (Carta and Puzzle) I'm sure there's lots more, those are just the 2 I noticed most recentl…
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I heard lots of great ideas on replacing Intercom. But 2 things went horribly wrong. First, the AI comments. Past about the 60th, it's all AI slop. Peter Walker is so right: AI comments are ruining this for everyone…
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