How to use the Style Tuner to level up your prompts + several custom styles and style tuners to get you started. — Notes: This article assumes you’re familiar with using Midjourney. Those with zero experience may want to read this first. The basic idea behind using AI for image creation, is simple. Enter a few words (the “prompt”) and some Artificial Intelligence computing magic spits out what it thinks you’re asking for.

A summary of important announcements from Midjourney this year. The advancements in visual AI generation are happening faster than most of us can keep up. This is a reference of use-based changes (no admin notes regarding account management, billing, etc.) for those of us who want to have a bookmark…

Hundreds of pitches later, I have some tough news for you. — Back in October I wrote an article (more of a rant than an article tbh) about Quibi raising $1.8B in capital and then shutting down — it really struck a chord with people. As a result, I’ve received hundreds of messages and emails from early-stage founders who are looking to…

It’s really hard to get business people to think like startup founders. — On the surface, business owners usually want to reach beyond the “Small Business” revenue levels, but the sacrifices required to push through to scalable growth are hard to accept. Because I work with tons of scalable startups through Navigate, an early-stage accelerator, I fully understand why investors always say that…

So Quibi is shutting down after raising ~$1.8B in funding. — I’m not privy to the details of this fiasco, but the massive red flag for me was bringing on the former CEO of HP. When will boards & investors learn that you need startup people to run startups? Don’t get me wrong, Meg Whitman might be amazing at business. However, a startup is not a business. A…

Whether you’ve been running your E-comm store for 6 months or 6 years, this free 7-week program will leave you with practical tips to improve your online sales. — NOTE: The deadline for applications is very soon — May 22nd. Please act quickly if you want to be considered for this free ecommerce bootcamp. Apply Now While retail is getting decimated during the global Coronavirus pandemic, this is a great time to be in ecommerce. …

While we’re all navigating this new WFH life, here are 5 local startups that are working to make your time at home more pleasurable. — Building a startup is hard. Add global crisis to your list of things to deal with and it’s enough to make you want to throw in the towel completely. Luckily great startup founders are often very resilient — and even if resiliency doesn’t come naturally — Nassim Taleb has been preparing us for uncertain times for the past 10 years. Smart startups are built to be anti-fragile.

The dirty little secret that’s driving up your Cost-Per-Click rates. — It seems like Cost-Per-Click (CPC) rates are constantly on the rise and achieving a positive Return on Investment (ROI) on Pay-Per-Click (PPC) ads gets harder every year. Usually you chalk it up to competition and/or market saturation. Unfortunately, despite Google’s original motto, “Don’t be evil”, there’s something more sneaky at…

Let’s start this out by saying I am a self-taught developer. To many formally educated programmers/developers/engineers, I do lots of things wrong. I’m a hacker of the #2 variety: