Posts by Kim Browne
The 5 questions smart founders ask before chasing growth
You feel it the moment a competitor announces their seed round. Or when a Twitter thread goes viral about someone hitting 50K MRR in 12 months. Suddenly, steady progress feels slow. Sustainable feels boring. Growth at all costs starts whispering in your ear. Most founders do not fail because they lack ambition. They fail because…
Read More7 early signs of burnout before it fully hits
You tell yourself you’re just in a “push season.” Product launch. Fundraising. Hiring your first engineer. Another month of runway pressure. Of course you’re tired, and of course you’re stretched. This is what building a company is supposed to feel like, right? Maybe. But there’s a difference between high-intensity execution and the slow leak of…
Read More7 unpopular truths about startup growth nobody posts on LinkedIn
If you spend five minutes on LinkedIn, you would think startup growth is a clean, upward chart powered by mindset, morning routines, and one bold pivot. In reality, your Slack is quiet, your CAC is creeping up, and you are wondering if you are the only founder not “crushing it.” You are not. After working…
Read MoreA Full Guide To Practical Funding Methods For Expanding Your Brand
Scaling a brand is an exhilarating phase. You’ve found your product-market fit, the customers are asking for more, and the opportunity is staring you right in the face. But there is one universal hurdle that separates vision from reality: cash flow. You can’t grow an empire on revenue alone, especially when you have to pay…
Read MoreTime Efficiency As a Lifestyle: Habits That Fuel Long‑Term Success and Purpose
People frequently think of time management as a technique to get more work done with fewer resources or to get teams to do more tasks. But teams that do well see time in a different way. For them, being efficient doesn’t mean doing more; it means working together to do the most important things. It’s…
Read MoreWhat Today’s Democrats Can Learn From Jesse Jackson
You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Jesse Jackson died this week at age 84. In addition to his decades of work as a civil rights activist, Jackson ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988, finishing as the…
Read MoreRhode Island Hockey Game Shooter Had Nazi Tattoos
The far right is using the murder of a mother and one of her sons to attack transgender people, completely ignoring the fact that the shooter had massive Nazi tattoos. The shooter, who police said was born with the name Robert Dorgan but also went by Roberta Esposito, fatally shot their ex-wife and son at…
Read MoreTwo-Month-Old Baby in ICE Detention Taken to Hospital
A 2-month-old baby at an ICE detention center in Texas had to be hospitalized late Monday night because a doctor wasn’t available at the facility. Juan Nicolás, held at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, 71 miles from San Antonio, has been suffering from respiratory problems for nearly half of his life— the…
Read MoreEvery time a startup stalls, these 5 blind spots are to blame
You know the feeling. Growth flattens. The energy dips. The metrics are not terrible, but they are not moving. You tell yourself it is just a slow month, a weird cycle, the market. But deep down, you sense something is off. Most startups do not stall because founders are lazy or untalented. They stall because…
Read MoreCivil Rights Groups Sue to Protect Georgia Voter Data Seized by FBI
“I still strongly believe in Trump’s immigration laws about, ‘Let’s get the bad guys out of here.’ You know, they’re murderers, they killed people, they molested people, let’s get them out of here,” Ceballos said to the publication. “But I feel like I don’t fit that category. And I feel like that’s how they’re treating…
Read MoreTrump Blames Popular Black Democrat for Potomac River Sewage Spill
“I still strongly believe in Trump’s immigration laws about, ‘Let’s get the bad guys out of here.’ You know, they’re murderers, they killed people, they molested people, let’s get them out of here,” Ceballos said to the publication. “But I feel like I don’t fit that category. And I feel like that’s how they’re treating…
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