THE MONEY PROMPT: Do a full analysis of the revenue generating aspects of our code base. Your mission is to identify opportunities to improve revenue. You have my full permission to perform read-only database queries to accomplish this task. You may also read the entire code base, as well as past git commits. Focus on the largest revenue drivers that will drive the biggest impact. Also focus on straightforward changes and adjustments, rather than major strategy changes. The aim is to identify the top 20 opportunities for human review. For each opportunity, give it a revenue impact score (1-5) and a likelihood of success score (1-5). Each opportunity should have a description, how big of an opportunity it is revenue wise, and how to implement the idea in the code. While you may report important bugs that you find, we are not looking to fix minor bugs that do not impact revenue. We are not performing a compliance audit or making legal interpretations over existing practices. Do not rely on the work of past agents or existing documentation. Do your own research and analysis. Put the final report in a claude artifact that can be shared.

I can't think of anyone that has a worse reputation than Meta ads reps. They call out of the blue with no meeting scheduled. Nobody wants to talk to them. They say whatever they need to to increase your spend. They give terrible advice. Etc.

If you want to be great at something, the path isn't complicated. Get good at it, then keep getting better, year after year. And don't measure your progress only by money. Skill, character, and the people you've helped along the way are a better scoreboard than your bank balance.

Business is my hobby. My side hobby? Another business. My other side hobby? Real estate.

New cold email subject line just dropped: "This is my last request before I die."

We stopped selling lifetime memberships at MarketBeat because I don’t know what our products will look like 10 years from now. “Lifetime” creates a long obligation. I’d rather keep the flexibility to change products and refund customers when we can’t deliver what we promised.

I think buyers will pick up barely profitable companies, replace a big chunk of the labor with AI agents, and run them at half the cost. If your margins are thin and your work is repetitive, it's worth asking now what your business looks like when someone else does that first.

Unless you've got a long track record, few investors want to fund an idea-stage company with no customers. That's not cynicism, it's how risk works. The best pitch deck you can build is revenue. Go find a few people willing to pay you, and the conversation changes completely.

iPhone Duo Review: Closed -> It's the worst smartphone Apple has made in modern history. Open -> It's the greatest mini-tablet ever made. I am going to try it for ~2 weeks but tbh not sure if it will stick.

It's easy to spend your week planning for problems you might have someday. It feels responsible, but it's often a way to avoid the problems sitting on your desk right now. I'd rather solve the real problem in front of me than plan for five hypothetical ones that never show up.

“There are no renewals in financial publishing.” False. 50% of MarketWise’s 2025 billings came from subscribers who have been with them for more than four years. This is from their SEC filings.

MarketBeat started with research tools like All Access and Daily Premium. Those can hit $5 or $10 million a year, but 5 to 8% monthly churn means you're starting backwards every month. Hard past eight figures. Advertising plus cohort tracking by channel is what changed us.

SHENNANIGANS LIKE THIS IS WHY I ONLY BUY FROM TRUSTWORTHY SELLERS LIKE @Seanfrank and @ridgewallet.

MarketBeat's first hire was in 2013. Stevie Shea did customer support about 20 hours a week. We had five people before COVID and we're at 21 now. My hire rule: if you've got about 20 hours a week of real work ready, make the hire. You'll find ways to fill the rest.

The cold emailers are now pitching Micro1-style "sell your data to the A.I. companies" emails. Idk. Something feels off about this whole thing. I have a feeling a lot of people who sell their data will end up regretting it.

This thing is pretty cool. Don’t listen to @danielcberk

Want private CPA offers when your list is still small? Start as a sub-affiliate. In finance I point people to Investing Media Solutions or Strikepoint. You won't get the same CPA as a direct deal, but you earn your way into Agora and MarketWatch by showing real volume first.