Irina Menn
@stempm
Product Manager, 3x startup founder. #AI. Tinkerer. Explorer
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That’s the way to build new business
My wife and i argue about code at 11 pm Not romantic But we're shipping Everyone romanticizes building with your spouse Matching MacBooks Coffee shop aesthetics that's not reality reality is debating our affiliate system at midnight debugging at 2 AM hard talks about…
Great resources for *Fundraising
I got rejected by 144 investors before raising $150M for my $200M+ rev/year startup. After 144 rejections, I started questioning our approach. Were we solving the right problem? What were we doing wrong? Why weren’t investors seeing what we were seeing? Were we the right…
1. Maximize who you are. Lean into all the aspects that make you different 2. Build relationships with winners 3. Solve problems that matter to you
OK, hear me out on this one. 10 hour days. 100 minutes / hour. 100 seconds / minute. Noon is 5:00. Midnight = 0:00 or 10:00. Base-12/60 time is a Babylonian fossil. Just because they didn't figure it out during the French Revolution doesn't mean it can't be done.
Stealth founders massively overestimate how much other people care about what they’re building
Stop Blasting Everywhere. Start Building a Content Ecosystem. The more you slice one pillar piece into native, platform-specific content, the more you dominate YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn, and even AI search, without burning out. The sooner you realize AI is increasingly citing…
My short take is that people who want to get married, get married. My longer take is: Many of my single friends (mostly the women) have a hard time differentiating between filtering criteria and selection criteria. It's important to SELECT for values / goals / competency, etc.…
American women have never been this resigned to staying single. The challenges of finding a romantic partner have been made more complicated by a growing divide in education and career prospects between men and women. 🔗 Read more: on.wsj.com/448WoC4
It's weird the things you remember. For some reason, this is the one poem I heard when I was a kid that I can (mostly) still recite from memory. No others. Must have made an impression. --- It Couldn't Be Done By EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Somebody said that it couldn’t be done But he…
Fear is a bad policy. Risk management is a good policy. Startups that are panicking and operate based on fear probably weren’t good investments to start with. Startups are typically most adaptive and competitive segment in any industry. I’m a bit surprised you are getting…
Our stock market is down. Bond yields are up and the dollar is declining. These are not the markers of successful policy. I am receiving an increasing number of emails and texts from small business people I do business with or have invested in, expressing fear that they will…
Kinda obvious and yet most businesses are missing this step. Diving straight into AI adoption and tinkering with any tech is fun, it could also be business impactful
Don’t start with the tech — start with your business. • What problems do you want to solve? • Where do you want to improve: efficiency, revenue, CX, or growth? Clarity here makes everything else easier. (7/12)
Every great relationship, team, and company runs on one rule. Someone has to be Batman. Someone has to be Robin. One leads. One supports. If that isn’t clear, things fall apart. Two Batmans leads to power struggles. Two Robins leads to hesitation and inaction. Either way,…
As consumer branding becomes more and more neutralized, do the vibrant brands stand out?
Every aspect of life is being stripped of color. Many have noticed this trend — but why exactly is it happening? Something deeper is going on… (thread) 🧵
Ever wondered how top execs manage high-growth tech environments and maintain balance? 🤔 In our latest episode, Bronwyn Smith shares insights on thriving in tech, balancing work and life, and prioritizing health. Tune in now: youtu.be/flJ0fBlPicc #UnStackedStartUps
Nothing will move forward without action. Be the doer. At the earliest stages of a startup, having doers is crucial. It's about people who execute, try things, and get things done. Experience, background, and connections mean nothing if there's no action. Listen to more insight
Fun read. How products are made
This is the wild story of how I made $1,036,175 during the COVID lockdowns by rapidly creating a new physical product in 7 days. In April 2020, during the lockdowns I created 2 things that changed my life: 1. – I launched Shepherd (eventually renamed Somewhere[dot]com). 4…
![marshal's tweet image. This is the wild story of how I made $1,036,175 during the COVID lockdowns by rapidly creating a new physical product in 7 days.
In April 2020, during the lockdowns I created 2 things that changed my life:
1. – I launched Shepherd (eventually renamed Somewhere[dot]com). 4…](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GVB9uAKXQAAnHYz.jpg)
Sometimes, the obvious must be studied so it can be asserted with full confidence: - LLMs can not answer questions whose answers are not in their training set in some form, - they can not solve problems they haven't been trained on, - they can not acquire new skills our…
5 things you will not regret doing: 1) Taking care of your health 2) Investing in your education 3) Building your own Business 4) Spending time with your loved ones 5) Not caring about what others think of you Life is simple, we usually are the ones who make it hard.
Of all the algorthms you learn in CS, who would have thought Topological Sort would be the one to continuously spawn billion dollar companies?
Right on. And this is why you should hire full stack cross functional startup product managers when building out your brand new startup. Those who understand interlocking between departments and functions and can move things forward with bare bones teams and budgets.
Some of my most bone-headed (and insanely expensive) mistakes have been hiring fancy people from big Fortune 500 corporate gigs and putting them in charge of smaller companies. There’s a saying, “You can take the man out of IBM, but you can’t take the IBM out of the man.”…
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