Archive - Melissa Kwan: ‘your founder next door’

What is freedom, anyway?

Chris Walker’s 10 dimensions of freedom. How free are you?

May 19 • Melissa Kwan

ProfitLed is back: passion, profit, purpose

Season 3: How passion, profit, and purpose change as founders come into financial success.

May 14 • Melissa Kwan

Making money is a skill

It’s a thing you learn, not a thing you do

May 12 • Melissa Kwan

What not having product-market fit feels like

3 companies, no PMF. What I know about what it isn't.

May 5 • Melissa Kwan

April 2026

This month's good stuff

Becoming the next hottest AI startup.

Apr 30 • Melissa Kwan

This is how reputation gets built

In a hundred small non-asked deliverables.

Apr 28 • Melissa Kwan

Stop giving your pain a voice

The words you speak matter, whether you say them out loud or not.

Apr 21 • Melissa Kwan

When experience becomes the enemy

What if what you know holds you back from progress?

Apr 14 • Melissa Kwan

The strategy that got us to profitability and kept us small

I thought purple ocean was the holy grail of bootstrapping, it also turned out to be my biggest blindspot.

Apr 8 • Melissa Kwan

March 2026

This month's good stuff

The power to create our own reality.

Mar 31 • Melissa Kwan

How to say no to discounts

A template for saying no to anyone who asks you for a discount.

Mar 24 • Melissa Kwan

The power of reframing your business

How redefining our business changed the problem we're solving.

Mar 17 • Melissa Kwan

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