COFFOUNDER DAILY
The business ideas, founder wins and board moves of that morning.
$808Ka year
Mike Satterlee, 19, started CruiseCup and runs it as CEO. The company sells 3D-printed and stainless steel can coolers. They reload from the top or the bottom, and that makes them different.
As told on CNBC Make It, 15 Oct 2026
$200Ka month
This owner rents out safari tents on Airbnb. He does not own a single normal house. The tents are different from most stays, and that helps the business stand out.
As told on UpFlip, 9 Oct 2026
$480Ka year
Vikki is a chiropractor, and her husband Danny ran a tree service business. They had no farm experience when they found 70 acres in Florida. They started with four cows and a couple of donkeys, and now they have over 200 livestock, a growing wagyu herd, and a farm store people love to visit.
As told on UpFlip, 13 Oct 2026
$492Ka month
Frank Olivieri runs Pat's King of Steaks in Philadelphia. His family started it 96 years ago with hot dogs, then grilled chopped ribeye and onions on Italian bread. Frank has kept the same cheese steak recipe for decades and does one thing really well.
As told on UpFlip, 19 Oct 2026
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$16Ka month
Justin Hall and his wife turned an old church in a strip mall into an event venue called The Hall ATL. He still works a full-time job. Facebook ads that cost less than $100 brought in $10,000 in bookings.
As told on The Koerner Office, 19 Oct 2026
$2Kevery Saturday
Angela Henson is 20 and lives in Frisco, Texas. She turned her parents' front porch into Little Bit Bakery. She bakes sourdough, cinnamon rolls, cookies and bagels, takes preorders, and sells out to lines of customers in about an hour.
As told on The Koerner Office, 15 Oct 2026
$2Ka day
Rasty grew up in a village of 700 people in Slovakia. After high school he moved to Boston to work for a security company that Google bought. Later he built a startup that Amazon bought, and now he runs an app that makes $2k/day.
As told on Starter Story, 24 Oct 2026
$15Ka month
James, Brenden, and Carter are three men in their early twenties. They help businesses find work that AI can do for them, and they build AI tools with Claude that save hours of work. They got started by texting people they knew and offering AI assessments.
As told on The Koerner Office, 25 Oct 2026
$35Ka month
Patrick runs Gus Franco's Pizza with his wife. It began as pizzas for friends and grew into a food trailer, then a restaurant. He keeps a simple menu and uses dough that takes 72 hours to prepare.
As told on UpFlip, 26 Oct 2026
$10Ka month
Frederick is an indie app builder. He went from $0 to $10,000 a month with a health and fitness iOS app. He believes the app itself barely matters.
As told on Starter Story, 25 Oct 2026
$41Ka month
Rasty runs an encrypted vault app. Big rivals with millions of users rank first in the App Store, so he went after the web instead. He uses AI agents to write articles on autopilot for every keyword that points to the App Store, and the big apps ignore this.
As told on Starter Story, 27 Oct 2026
$30Ka month
Charlie was a software engineer with a full-time job. He gave himself two weeks to build Links, a simple link-in-bio tool. He built it even though a rival had millions of users, and it still worked.
As told on Starter Story, 26 Oct 2026
Nevo David@wickedguro
I made $348,430 in October 2026 🦞 Postiz — $348,430 What's happening this month Product: - Moving everything to AWS - Trying to make it the most bulletproof system possible for all cyberattacks - Improving reliability M…
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Axel Schapmann@aschapmann
I made €3,023 in October 2026. ... MyFeedIn finally crossed €1,000 MRR 🎉
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bertranddo joined the board at #77, with $6.3K a month.
Daniil joined the board at #105, with $2.8K a month.
Pratik Sharma ॐ🚩 joined the board at #109, with $2K a month.
Aniket Pawar joined the board at #137, with $964 a month.
Jyri joined the board at #203, with $9 a month.
Kyan climbed from #40 to #20, now $100K a month.Kyan passed Bhanu Teja P for #20.
