Startups
The idea is the cheapest part of a startup
Founders guard their ideas like treasure and ask strangers to sign NDAs. The idea is the cheapest thing a startup owns,…
AI
AI Stories
Zero to one, in public
Funding
What a seed round actually buys you, and what it quietly costs
Raising a seed round feels like winning. It is really a trade: money and runway now for obligations and expectations tha…
Growth
Retention is the only growth you actually keep
Acquisition gets the headlines and the budget. But growth that pours into a leaky bucket is just an expensive way to sta…
Product
Your first version should embarrass you a little
Founders delay launching to polish features nobody has asked for. The faster path to a good product runs through a sligh…
Product
Saying no is the product skill nobody teaches
Great products are defined as much by what they refuse to do. A roadmap that says yes to everything is not a plan; it is…
Funding
How to run a fundraise without losing a quarter
An open-ended raise can swallow months and stall the company. Treating it as a focused, time-boxed project is how founde…
Founders
The co-founder conversation to have before you incorporate
Most founder breakups are not about betrayal. They are about assumptions nobody said out loud in the hopeful early days.
AI
Before you add AI to your product, answer these three questions
Bolting a chatbot onto a product is easy. Knowing whether it should be there, and who pays when it is wrong, is the hard…