Week of 26 Oct · 20 ideas · Updated every Monday

20 LinkedIn post ideas for founders, this week.

Each idea comes with an opening that works and why it works. Use any of them for free, or let Wiri write the whole post in your voice.

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02Opinion

Why you stopped calling it a family

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We used to say our startup was a family. I stopped saying it last year. Families don’t have performance reviews. Teams do, and that’s fine.
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Why it works: Pushing back on a phrase many founders use starts a debate in the comments.

03Opinion

Why you went back to an office

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We gave up our office to save money. Eighteen months later, we signed a lease again. Not for productivity. For the conversations that only happen by the coffee machine.
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Why it works: Remote work splits opinion, and a reversal with a reason gets both sides talking.

04Numbers

How long a sale really takes

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Our average deal takes 47 days from first call to signed contract. I used to tell investors 20. This is where the other 27 days go.
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Why it works: An honest gap between the pitch and reality is rare and useful.

05Numbers

Where your hours actually went

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I tracked every hour I worked for one month. 186 hours in total. Only 22 of them went to the product. That number changed my calendar.
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Why it works: A tracked number nobody else has makes people check their own week.

06Behind the scenes

How you write your investor update

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Our investor update goes out on the first Monday of each month. It takes me 40 minutes. The section investors reply to most is the one called “what we got wrong”.
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Why it works: A format other founders can copy, with one surprising section, gets saved.

07Lesson

The hire you made too early

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We hired our first salesperson in month four. It cost us six months, and it wasn’t their fault.
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Why it works: Owning a mistake earns more trust than any win.

08Opinion

A rule you broke on purpose

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We don’t sell annual plans. Everyone told us we were leaving money on the table. This is what happened to churn instead.
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Why it works: Going against common advice, with a result, starts a real debate.

09Numbers

The metric you stopped watching

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I checked our signups every morning for two years. Then I stopped. We grew faster.
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Why it works: A surprising number pulls people past “…more”.

10Behind the scenes

What your Monday actually looks like

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My Monday starts with one question to the team: what’s stuck? Not what’s done. What’s stuck.
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Why it works: People follow founders for how they work, not just what they ship.

11Story

The first time someone paid you

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Our first customer paid us $49 by bank transfer. I took a screenshot. I still have it.
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Why it works: Small, specific moments feel more real than big milestones.

12Lesson

Feedback that stung, and helped

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An investor passed on us in four minutes. His reason was the most useful thing anyone told me that year.
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Why it works: Everyone has been rejected. The lesson is what they stay for.

13Opinion

Popular advice you don’t follow

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Everyone says talk to 100 customers before you build. We talked to 12. It was enough, and I can tell you why.
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Why it works: A clear position gets comments from both sides.

14Question

Ask other founders something real

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Founders, how do you decide a feature is done? I’ll go first: we ship when it embarrasses us a little.
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Why it works: Answering your own question first makes it easy to join in.

15Numbers

A small number you’re proud of

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We have 312 customers. Not 10,000. But 41 of them have been with us since year one.
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Why it works: Honest, modest numbers stand out in a feed full of big claims.

16Behind the scenes

Your tool stack, honestly

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Our whole company runs on six tools. One of them is a shared doc we refuse to replace.
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Why it works: Practical and easy to save, and people love a confession.

17Story

The pivot nobody saw from outside

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Two years ago we sold to restaurants. Today not one of our customers is a restaurant. One conversation changed it.
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Why it works: A before and after makes people want the middle.

18Lesson

What you’d tell yourself on day one

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If I could tell day-one me one thing, it wouldn’t be about product. It would be: write down why every customer bought.
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Why it works: Hindsight posts get saved and shared by newer founders.

19Opinion

The slide you took out of your deck

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We took the market size slide out of our deck. Investors started asking better questions.
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Why it works: A specific change with a specific effect is easy to remember.

20Behind the scenes

How you handle a bad week

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This was a bad week. Two churns, one outage, a hire who said no. This is what I do on Fridays like this one.
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Why it works: Honesty about hard weeks gets more replies than any launch.

KA note from KaustubhFounder, Wiral.Social

Why these ideas work

Most founders I talk to don’t lack things to say. They lack the first line.

You sit down after a long day, open LinkedIn, and the empty box wins. So you post nothing, again.

Every idea here starts from something founders actually live through: a customer who almost left, a hire that went wrong, a price you were scared to raise. You don’t need a new story. You need to notice the one you already have.

How to use them

Pick the idea that made you think of a real moment. Not the cleverest one. The one you can tell without making anything up.

Write it the way you’d tell a friend over chai. Short lines, the one detail only you know, then stop.

Tip: Don’t copy the example opening word-for-word. It shows the shape, not your post. Plenty of other founders read this page too.

New ideas land here every Monday. Bookmark it.

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Questions, answered.

New ideas every Monday, at the same address.

Are these ideas free to use?

Yes. Use any idea, any week, no sign-up needed. If you want Wiri to write it in your voice, that takes a free account.

How often do the ideas change?

Every Monday. The page keeps the same address, so you can bookmark it and come back each week.

Will Wiri write the whole post for me?

Yes. Pick an idea, tell Wiri your version of the story in a line or two, and you get three posts in your voice to choose from.

Can I get ideas written for my own work?

Yes. Inside Wiral, Wiri suggests fresh ideas every morning from your topics and what it knows about your work.

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