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🌱 4 Person Seed Round

Aug 26, 2026

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2 min read

🌱 4 Person Seed Round

👉 A founder asked me this on Thursday with a fresh seed round and three people.

Egemen Eres
Egemen Eres
Borrow brilliance, make it yours.

Aug 22, 2026

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1 min read

Borrow brilliance, make it yours.

👉 Found a powerful AI tool? Actually use it.

Egemen Eres
Egemen Eres

Tools & Resources

Aug 19, 2026

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2 min read

Fundraising changed

👉 Pre-seed money barely moved this year. The count of checks written fell 22%. Here's why.

Financials & Fundraising

Aug 12, 2026

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2 min read

6 month clock

👉 I've been telling founders to plan 24 months of runway but that changed in 2026.

VCs

Aug 5, 2026

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2 min read

744-Day Runway

👉 I know this sounds ridiculous but 86% of every venture dollar goes to AI now.

Financials & Fundraising

+1

Apr 23, 2026

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2 min read

Less Product, More Moat

👉 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

Egemen Eres
Egemen Eres

Apr 21, 2026

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2 min read

🧪 86% accuracy. 30 minutes. $20.

👉 I stopped doing user interviews. Here's user research, rebuilt for founders who ship fast.

User Research

Egemen Eres
Egemen Eres

Apr 15, 2026

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9 min read

Q1 Funding Debunked

👉 Q1 2026 broke every funding record. I'm breaking down what's really going on. It also cut seed deal count by a third.

User Research

+1

Egemen Eres
Egemen Eres

Apr 11, 2026

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2 min read

🧾 Read This Letter

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

Egemen Eres
Egemen Eres

Apr 8, 2026

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8 min read

Pick an ugly problem

👉 Stop building for everyone. Pick one ugly niche, learn its workflows better than anyone.

Iteration

+1

Egemen Eres
Egemen Eres

Apr 1, 2026

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8 min read

🌱 Seed Stage Split

👉 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

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Egemen Eres
Egemen Eres

Mar 25, 2026

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8 min read

🛑 Freemium trap

👉 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

Egemen Eres
Egemen Eres

Mar 21, 2026

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3 min read

🤖 My new AI coworker

👉 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

Egemen Eres
Egemen Eres

Mar 18, 2026

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7 min read

The Retention-First Roadmap

👉 Acquisition is too expensive right now. Here's my deep dive on why you need to focus on expansion revenue over growth.

User Research

+2

Egemen Eres
Egemen Eres
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