A daily briefing for a startup founder
A short daily briefing for founders on your market, your competitors and the money, set up so funding announcements do not take it over.
The short answer
Describe a recurring show naming your market, your three closest competitors and the customer you sell to, and ask it to open with anything a customer or an investor might raise with you this week. It runs ten minutes on weekday mornings and researches fresh each time.
How to set it up
Name the competitors explicitly
A show described as ‘the AI note-taking market’ produces a category survey. One that names three companies goes looking for what those companies actually did, which you can act on.
Ask for the conversation you will have
‘What might a customer or an investor bring up this week, and what is the honest answer’ turns a news round-up into preparation for those conversations.
Exclude funding news unless it is yours to worry about
Left unfiltered these shows become an announcement feed, because that is what is published most. ‘Only mention a raise if it changes who I am competing with’ removes almost all of it.
At a glance
- Suggested cadence
- Weekday mornings
- Suggested length
- 8–10 minutes
- Key instruction
- Name competitors and customers explicitly
- Also works
- Uploading board decks for a pre-meeting catch-up
Hear what comes out
Shows already published on Lissin, free to play in the browser.
Questions
- Can it track a specific competitor’s product changes?
- It researches what is public: announcements, coverage and public changelogs. Paste a specific page in to make sure it is read. It does not monitor anything, and nothing tells you when a page changes.
- Is this a replacement for reading the trade press?
- No. It tells you what happened on the days you did not open anything, and points you to what is worth reading in full.
- Can I use it for board prep?
- Yes. Upload the deck and the last set of minutes and ask for the questions a sceptical board member would ask. Make that a separate, one-off show.
What this does not do
It has no access to private data, your CRM or anything unpublished. A briefing about your own market will sometimes tell you things you already know better than any source does.
Make your own show, or hear a sample
Make a show from your topic or documents in the Lissin iPhone app (iOS 26 or later). Or listen to public shows in the web player without installing the app.
Last reviewed September 9, 2026 by Lissin Editorial.