People will always have opinions about your startup: “You should pivot.” “That won’t scale.” “That’s not a billion-dollar idea.” Most of the time, those people haven’t built what you’ve built. In 2021, I started with a simple idea - smart digital business cards for teams. That evolved into a Next-Gen AI lead nurturing tool. To this day, it still generates revenue. But I let the noise get to me. I kept chasing innovation instead of honoring what was already working. I thought I had to rebuild everything to be “investor ready.” That came with costs: new systems, migrations, and a few hard lessons about who truly valued what we built. Now I see it clearly: maybe the first idea isn’t the billion-dollar one. But it can be the million-dollar one that funds your next chapter. So, by Popular Demand, we’re bringing our subsidiary bupcards back - rebranded, refreshed, and rebuilt for the community that helped us grow (NFC devices included 😉). And while our new team builds the future rela...