The Susie Blog
Long-form essays for entrepreneurs who treat their company like a craft. No fluff, no listicles, no recycled Twitter threads.
A 30-minute weekly review is the highest-leverage habit a founder can build. Here's the exact structure top operators use every Friday.
Read essayA practical, no-hype AI stack for solo founders — what to use for strategy, building, marketing, and operations in 2026.
Read essayMost SaaS founders price too low and wonder why they can't grow. Here's the case for raising your prices — and the data that backs it up.
Read essayAn operating system — not a vacation — is what prevents burnout. Here's the four-part system top founders use to stay in the game for decades.
Read essayBuilding in public is a marketing channel and a trap. Here's when transparency helps the business and when it actively hurts.
Read essayYour first 100 users won't come from ads. Here's how solo founders find them — one conversation, one community, one DM at a time.
Read essayMost overnight successes are the result of 1,000 unremarkable days. Here's why daily execution compounds and how to ride the curve.
Read essayYou don't need to build to validate. Here's a 48-hour playbook for testing whether a SaaS idea has real demand — without writing code.
Read essayMost customer discovery produces lies you want to hear. Here's how to run interviews that surface what people actually do, not what they say.
Read essayThe skill that got you to $10K MRR will keep you stuck there. Here's how to make the identity shift from operator to strategist.
Read essayBurnout doesn't arrive with a warning label. Here's how to recognize the early signals as a solo founder and recover before the company suffers.
Read essayMost founders price by copying competitors. That's how you end up underpriced and unprofitable. Here's a first-principles approach to SaaS pricing.
Read essaySolo founders don't fail from lack of effort — they fail from echo chambers. Here's why a strategic sparring partner is the highest-ROI relationship you can build.
Read essayExecution failure isn't laziness or lack of skill. It's almost always one of three patterns. Here's how to diagnose and fix yours.
Read essayMost MVPs take six months because founders confuse 'minimum' with 'finished.' Here's a 30-day playbook that ships something real, not something perfect.
Read essayIf you can't name your three most important tasks before opening your laptop, you've already lost the day. Here's the three-task rule founders use to stay focused.
Read essayWhite-space opportunities are the gaps between markets where the next category gets built. Here's how solo founders find them before incumbents do.
Read essayHow elite solo founders use 90-day sprints to compound progress, beat motivation cycles, and ship more in a quarter than most do in a year.
Read essayMost startup roadmaps die in week three. Here's a framework for building a roadmap that survives reality, scope changes, and your own mood.
Read essayAI is no longer a productivity hack — it's a co-founder. Here's how solo entrepreneurs use AI to plan, build, and scale without a team.
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