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Marshall Hargrave
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Serial entrepreneur. Startups. Finance. Event-driven. Hip hop vigilante. On the quest for the best hot chicken.

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10 Startup Ideas from Reddit with 50K+ Upvotes medium.com/startup-insi...
10 Startup Ideas from Reddit with 50K+ Upvotes
What if the next billion-dollar startup idea is just sitting on Reddit, waiting to be built?
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August 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
19 Tools That Replace Expensive Startup Software medium.com/startup-insi...
19 Tools That Replace Expensive Startup Software
After analyzing the tool stacks of successful startups and testing hundreds of free alternatives, we found that there are about 20 tools…
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August 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The Silent Solopreneur Advantage: Case Studies of 3 Bootstrapped Exits medium.com/startup-insi...
The Silent Solopreneur Advantage: Case Studies of 3 Bootstrapped Exits
How Quiet Builders Outsold VC-Backed Competitors Without a Single Pitch Meeting
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August 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Profit-First SaaS: How Micro-Niches Hit $10k MRR in 90 Days medium.com/startup-insi...
Profit-First SaaS: How Micro-Niches Hit $10k MRR in 90 Days
The Counterintuitive Blueprint That Values Profit Over Hustle (With Revenue Proof)
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August 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The $300K Validation Framework: How to Pressure-Test Ideas Before They Break You medium.com/startup-insi...
The $300K Validation Framework: How to Pressure-Test Ideas Before They Break You
The brutal testing system that saved me from three expensive failures — and revealed the counterintuitive truth about what customers…
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August 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
5 Micro-SaaS Ideas for Aging Populations (2M+ Reddit Demand Signals) medium.com/startup-insi...
5 Micro-SaaS Ideas for Aging Populations (2M+ Reddit Demand Signals)
How to Tap the trillion-dollar “Silver Economy” with Under-$500 Tools.
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August 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The $300K Validation Framework: How to Pressure-Test Ideas Before They Break You medium.com/startup-insi...
The $300K Validation Framework: How to Pressure-Test Ideas Before They Break You
The brutal testing system that saved me from three expensive failures — and revealed the counterintuitive truth about what customers…
medium.com
August 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The Co-Founder Fantasy That Destroys Most Partnerships medium.com/startup-insi...
The Co-Founder Fantasy That Destroys Most Partnerships
Therapy Notes Reveal the 3 Neurological Traps.
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August 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Profit-First SaaS: How Micro-Niches Hit $10k MRR in 90 Days medium.com/startup-insi...
Profit-First SaaS: How Micro-Niches Hit $10k MRR in 90 Days
The Counterintuitive Blueprint That Values Profit Over Hustle (With Revenue Proof)
medium.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
1,000 Hours Saved: My Documented Solo Founder Automation System medium.com/startup-insi...
1,000 Hours Saved: My Documented Solo Founder Automation System
Replace 87% of Manual Work with this $47/Month AI Stack.
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August 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The Solo Founder’s $1M Revenue Blueprint (No Co-Founder Needed) medium.com/startup-insi...
The Solo Founder’s $1M Revenue Blueprint (No Co-Founder Needed)
How 100+ entrepreneurs built million-dollar businesses without partners, investors, or teams.
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August 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Beyond Subscriptions: 3 Alternative Monetization Models Crushing SaaS in 2026 medium.com/startup-insi...
Beyond Subscriptions: 3 Alternative Monetization Models Crushing SaaS in 2026
How Innovators Are Printing Revenue While Others Drown in Churn.
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August 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Automated Validation: How I Tested 7 SaaS Ideas in 14 Days Using AI medium.com/startup-insi...
Automated Validation: How I Tested 7 SaaS Ideas in 14 Days Using AI
The system that replaced months of manual research with AI-powered validation — and the surprising results that changed everything I…
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August 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The Toxic Legacy of ‘Fake It Till You Make It’ medium.com/startup-insi...
The Toxic Legacy of ‘Fake It Till You Make It’
How Startup Culture’s Favorite Lie Became a $14B Psychological Crisis
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August 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Reddit’s Top 10 Recurring Startup Trends (With 6-Month Validation Data) medium.com/startup-insi...
Reddit’s Top 10 Recurring Startup Trends (With 6-Month Validation Data)
How to Ride the $17B Wave of Predictable Market Demand
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August 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The Ultimate Reddit Idea Sourcing Guide: 2026 Edition medium.com/startup-insi...
The Ultimate Reddit Idea Sourcing Guide: 2026 Edition
How to Mine $100k+ Startup Concepts from Forgotten Threads & Rising Trends.
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August 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
7 Reddit-Validated Profit Signals That Predict Startup Success (90% Hit Rate) medium.com/startup-insi...
7 Reddit-Validated Profit Signals That Predict Startup Success (90% Hit Rate)
After analyzing failed startups and Reddit threads, I discovered 7 non-negotiable profit signals.
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July 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
6 “Useless” Hobbies That Funded My $47k/Month SaaS (Income Proof) medium.com/startup-insi...
6 “Useless” Hobbies That Funded My $47k/Month SaaS (Income Proof)
How Turning “Wasted Time” Into Stealth R&D Prints Money in 2026.
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July 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The Unfiltered VC Fundraising Playbook: Raising $1M in 90 Days or Less medium.com/startup-insi...
The Unfiltered VC Fundraising Playbook: Raising $1M in 90 Days or Less
“VCs don’t fund ideas. They fund traction machines.”
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July 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The Ultimate Go-to-Market Playbook: How Top Startups Achieve 90% Launch Success medium.com/startup-insi...
The Ultimate Go-to-Market Playbook: How Top Startups Achieve 90% Launch Success
Steal these battle-tested frameworks from Dropbox, Slack, and Uber to dominate your market from day one.
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July 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Why Your Startup Vision Might Be Your Biggest Blind Spot medium.com/startup-insi...
Why Your Startup Vision Might Be Your Biggest Blind Spot
How Cognitive Traps Turn Founders into Modern-Day Don Quixotes
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July 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The No-Code Revolution: How Non-Technical Founders Are Building $1M Startups in 2026 medium.com/startup-insi...
The No-Code Revolution: How Non-Technical Founders Are Building $1M Startups in 2026
Inside the tools, tactics, and timelines that bypass traditional coding forever.
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July 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
7 Reddit-Validated Startup Ideas With Zero Competition medium.com/startup-insi...
7 Reddit-Validated Startup Ideas With Zero Competition
(And $1M+ Profit Potential)
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July 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The Growth Hacks That Turned Startups Into Unicorns medium.com/startup-insi...
The Growth Hacks That Turned Startups Into Unicorns
How Dropbox, Airbnb, and Spotify Used Viral Loops, Freemium, and UGC to Scale Faster Than Their Competition.
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July 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
8 AI-Proof Service Businesses Thriving (While Others Panic) medium.com/startup-insi...
8 AI-Proof Service Businesses Thriving (While Others Panic)
The automation apocalypse everyone’s worried about? These entrepreneurs are laughing all the way to the bank.
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July 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM