Apr 29, 2026
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2 min read
👉 If your "AI for XYZ" could be a feature inside someone else's product, you picked the wrong XYZ.
VCs
Apr 23, 2026
👉 Investors are paying for focus and punishing optionality. Seed rounds are bigger but 30% fewer founders got funded. The "all-in-one platform" pitch is dead.
Financials & Fundraising
+1
Apr 21, 2026
👉 I stopped doing user interviews. Here's user research, rebuilt for founders who ship fast.
User Research
Apr 15, 2026
9 min read
👉 Q1 2026 broke every funding record. I'm breaking down what's really going on. It also cut seed deal count by a third.
Apr 11, 2026
Most annual reports are fluff and I stopped reading them some time ago. This is worth a read: Two founders grew a 37-year-old company and still talking about the hard parts.
Mindset
Apr 8, 2026
8 min read
👉 Stop building for everyone. Pick one ugly niche, learn its workflows better than anyone.
Iteration
Apr 1, 2026
👉 A decade ago, $100M+ seed rounds were essentially zero. Now they dominate early-stage capital. Here's what that means for founders raising $3M to find their first 50 customers.
Pitching
Mar 25, 2026
👉 If you are still relying on a freemium tier, you need to read this. Let me show you why free users give us a completely false sense of product validation.
Monetization
Mar 21, 2026
3 min read
👉 I am completely changing how I handle spreadsheets and dashboards. Let me introduce you to the digital coworker that just took over half of my to-dos.
Tools & Resources
Mar 18, 2026
7 min read
👉 Acquisition is too expensive right now. Here's my deep dive on why you need to focus on expansion revenue over growth.
+2
Mar 11, 2026
👉 I found out only 16% of seed startups make it to Series A now. Let me break down the ruthless new $2.1M revenue benchmark we must hit to avoid going under.
Mar 4, 2026
👉 Life doesn't pause while you build. I'm breaking down the latest 2026 venture capital outlook so you can zoom out a little bit.
Feb 25, 2026
👉 Everything changed. Literally. Not clickbait.
AI
Feb 18, 2026
👉 Stop confusing motion with progress. A packed product roadmap might be your startup's biggest threat, data shows adding more features cause churn.
Product