Posts by Liam Redmond
Every confident founder I know learned these 7 lessons the hard way
Confidence in startups rarely looks like bravado. It looks quieter than that. It shows up as decisiveness under pressure, calm conversations with investors, and the ability to say no without overexplaining. If you are early in your journey, it can feel like confident founders were simply born that way. They were not. Almost every confident…
Read MoreFostering a Dog Creates Lasting Change for the Dog and the Shelter
A six-year-old Labrador mix named Luna spent months in a packed shelter. She lived in terror of the other dogs and couldn’t make eye contact with anyone. Savanna Tolley, a dog trainer and owner of The Dog Wizard, says Luna had “completely shut down.” Luna’s life changed when a foster caregiver took her in. Gentle…
Read MoreWhat is customer discovery (and how to run your first 10 interviews)
You’ve probably felt it already. You have an idea that feels right, a few friends say it sounds interesting, and you keep tweaking a product in your head late at night. But when you try to explain it to someone outside your bubble, the conversation goes fuzzy. They nod, ask polite questions, and nothing concrete…
Read MoreSuper Bowl spots spark fight over whether we’re ready for ads from our chatbots
The chatbot wars entered the Super Bowl this year. At Super Bowl LX, a ChatGPT competitor paid millions of dollars for commercials mocking the leading artificial intelligence chatbot’s plans to put advertisements in its chats. One of the ads, titled “Betrayal,” showed a man seeking help to communicate better with his mother. His therapist, representing…
Read MoreUS Coast Guard officer and family found dead in Florida home from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning
A US Coast Guard officer, his wife and their children were found dead inside their Florida home as officials fear the family suffered carbon monoxide poisoning — just hours after he talked with his mom on the phone. The bodies of Yohan Sanchez, 33, his wife Rebeca Santos, 15-year-old son Michael Melendez and 2-year-old son…
Read MoreHow to validate your business idea using customer interviews
You probably already know the advice: “Don’t build until you talk to customers.” And yet here you are, with a Notion doc full of ideas, a half-built MVP, and a quiet fear that you’re still guessing. Customer interviews sound simple, but most founders either avoid them or run them so poorly that they get false…
Read MoreBenefits of Maintaining an Organized Property
Organized property is a term widely used but hardly understood. What is organized property? By definition, it is land or real estate that is professionally managed and taken care of. This care extends to all of the property’s needs. A popular example of organized property is a storage locker. These units are carefully maintained and…
Read MoreAI Won’t Replace Trust in Marketing
Generative AI is impressive, but it still misses what matters most in marketing: trust. That’s my stance, and it comes from hard-won experience. As a founder and operator, I’ve watched the hype grow louder while the work of earning trust has not changed. Marketing runs on authenticity, not shortcuts. When content feels fake, people check…
Read MoreThe complete guide to building an MVP with no-code tools
You know you need to ship something to validate your idea, but hiring engineers feels premature, expensive, or slow. You’ve sketched flows in Figma, collected a few “sounds interesting” responses, and now you’re stuck between overthinking and overbuilding. This is the moment where many founders stall. Not because the idea is bad, but because the…
Read MoreWhat great founders do differently in their first 90 minutes of the day: 7 patterns that compound over time
Most founders don’t lose the day at 3 p.m. They lose it before breakfast. The first 90 minutes of your morning quietly decide whether you spend the day reacting to noise or building real leverage. It’s when anxiety is loudest, willpower is highest, and the temptation to “just check Slack” feels harmless but isn’t. After…
Read MoreWhat playing a 7-hour video game with strangers in L.A. taught me about the resistance
The donkeys are pissed off. Put upon, out of work and victims of decades-long systemic abuse, it’s time, they have decided, to protest. The donkeys, metaphorically, are us. At least that’s the premise of “asses.masses,” a video game played by and for a live audience. It’s theater for the post-Twitch age, performance art for those…
Read MoreHow to split equity among co-founders fairly
You probably didn’t start your company thinking the equity conversation would be the hardest one. But here you are, staring at a blank cap table, knowing that whatever you decide now will quietly shape motivation, resentment, and leverage for years. Too many founders either rush this conversation to avoid awkwardness or default to a “50/50…
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