Brian Seguin The Weight of Greatness: Learning to Dance with Fatigue Introduction: The Early Chase In our youth, greatness feels limitless, an open horizon that beckons with the promise of more. More success. More recognition. More proof that we can outlast, outwork, a... Feb 24, 2026
Brian Seguin From Bubbles to Breakthroughs: Why the AI Era Echoes the Dot-Com Boom and What’s Coming Next I. The Echo of Innovation Every technological revolution has its golden hour, the moment when excitement outruns understanding. In the late 1990s, that moment was the dot-com boom: wild valuations, ov... Feb 23, 2026
Brian Seguin From Speed to Trust: Why AI Needs a New Performance Metric At some point, every emerging technology hits a measurement problem. Not because it stops working, but because we keep measuring the wrong thing . AI is there now. We’ve gotten incredibly good at meas... Feb 10, 2026
Brian Seguin The Courage to Think Freely: How Mental Liberation Defines True Freedom Freedom Starts Within We often speak of freedom as something external — political, economic, or social. Yet, history reveals that the deepest and most powerful form of freedom begins within the human ... Dec 19, 2025
Brian Seguin The “Junior-to-Senior Metric”: The Hidden Indicator of Organizational Health In most organizations, success is measured by revenue, retention, or productivity. But there’s a quieter, more telling metric that reveals how deeply an organization truly invests in its people, the J... Dec 13, 2025
Brian Seguin How to Spot & Address Misinformation — Without Damaging Trust How to Spot & Address Misinformation — Without Damaging Trust In today’s world of instant messages, rapid decisions, and fast-moving teams, misinformation doesn’t just spread — it evolves. But here’s ... Dec 10, 2025
Brian Seguin Founder, Parent, Human: Building a Business Without Losing Your Family (or Yourself) Building a business while raising a family isn’t just “busy.” It’s a constant trade‑off between two roles that both feel non‑negotiable. Most founders don’t launch in a vacuum. One Kauffman Foundation... Dec 2, 2025
Brian Seguin Capital Is Cautious, Founders Are Creative: The Rise of the Bootstrap Generation In Q3 2025, startups on Carta raised $27.3B, the highest quarterly total in three years, yet that money was spread across only 1,131 rounds, the second-fewest in six years. Carta Across the first nine... Dec 1, 2025
Brian Seguin Before You Automate Anything, Fix the Thing Itself Most founders want automation because they’re drowning in work. But here’s the truth nobody likes to say out loud: Automating a broken process just lets you break things faster. At Bootstrap Buffalo, ... Nov 26, 2025
Brian Seguin Meaningful Music Monday: You’ve Got a Friend (For Underserved Founders) Bootstrap Buffalo exists for one reason: To be the person a founder can call when everything feels heavy and they don’t know who actually has their back. Lately, I’ve had James Taylor’s You’ve Got a F... Nov 20, 2025
Brian Seguin Bootstrap Before You Raise: How Founders Can Thrive Without VC The best founders I’ve met aren’t waiting for a term sheet or a letter of intent. They’re learning, iterating, and selling with or without outside money. Bootstrapping isn’t about starving your busine... Nov 18, 2025
Brian Seguin Why Most Founders Feel Like They’re at War Have you noticed that running a business can feel like a war? Some days you’re fighting with customers. Other days it’s clients. Sometimes it’s your own team. Often it’s investors. And the toughest ba... Nov 13, 2025
