# SCALABLE

> Helping early-stage founders launch products and grow startups, fast.

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## Posts
- [🔁 Raise, then buy](https://scalable.news/p/raise-then-buy): 👉 That is how many startups OpenAI has acquired since January, most of them seed stage. Anthropic took five.
- [🌱 4 Person Seed Round](https://scalable.news/p/4-person-seed-round): 👉 A founder asked me this on Thursday with a fresh seed round and three people.
- [Borrow brilliance, make it yours.](https://scalable.news/p/borrow-brilliance-make-it-yours): 👉 Found a powerful AI tool? Actually use it. 
- [Fundraising changed](https://scalable.news/p/fundraising-changed): 👉 Pre-seed money barely moved this year. The count of checks written fell 22%. Here's why.
- [6 month clock](https://scalable.news/p/6-month-clock): 👉 I've been telling founders to plan 24 months of runway but that changed in 2026.
- [744-Day Runway](https://scalable.news/p/744-day-runway): 👉 I know this sounds ridiculous but 86% of every venture dollar goes to AI now.
- [🪎 Nobody new is raising a fund](https://scalable.news/p/nobody-new-is-raising-a-fund): 👉 Seed prices are hitting records this month and dilution is dropping again. But it's not because there are more VCs in town.
- [Nobody counted the deals](https://scalable.news/p/nobody-counted-the-deals): 👉 Do this before you set a raise date, not after your term sheet stalls.
- [What won't change in the next 10 years](https://scalable.news/p/what-won-t-change-in-the-next-10-years): 👉 Look, the smartest move isn't trying to predict or chase every new trend but it's doubling down hard on the stuff that basically never changes.
- [AI Pricing & Revenue](https://scalable.news/p/ai-pricing-revenue): 👉 I think too many founders chase flashy models while ignoring the basics that actually ship. Here's my take on what's working practically right now.
- [🖇️ Two Markets](https://scalable.news/p/two-markets): 👉  Look closer and there are two venture markets, and the one on your timeline isn't yours. Here's how to adjust your investor strategy.
- [👀 The 70% problem](https://scalable.news/p/the-70-problem): 👉 Founders are quietly handing their inbox, calendar, and follow-ups to an agent and you will not catch up by hand.
- [🚨 Seed Crisis](https://scalable.news/p/seed-crisis): 👉 There's a massive structural crisis in venture capital today. Let me show you why the seed funding funnel is shrinking and how I am adjusting my strategy.
- [💺 Seats are gone](https://scalable.news/p/seats-are-gone): 👉 For ten years you charged per user. AI just broke that math, and the data is brutal. Here's what the smartest software companies are quietly switching to.
- [📱 80% more apps. Zero more users.](https://scalable.news/p/80-more-apps-zero-more-users): 👉 iOS app releases are up 80% year over year. The number of apps people actually use hasn't moved. Building is free now. Distribution is the only moat.
- [⏰ Not late, on time.](https://scalable.news/p/not-late-on-time): 👉 I spent years racing a deadline that turned out to be made up. Build the thing, raise the round, exit before 30. 
- [⚖️ Reliability = Capability](https://scalable.news/p/reliability-capability): 👉 Capability demos won 2024. Reliability metrics win 2026. Uptime, error rates, hallucination rates in production. Build the instrumentation before you raise.
- [Real Cost of Vibe Coding](https://scalable.news/p/real-cost-of-vibe-coding): 👉 I think founders adopted AI coding tools faster than any developer tool in history. Speed is up 3-5x at most early-stage teams I talk to.
- [The Pre-Seed Barbell](https://scalable.news/p/the-pre-seed-barbell): 👉 I found a terrifying new stat: 41.7% of all seed capital is now going straight to AI startups. Here is how I adjust my pre-seed raise strategy to survive.
- [🧠 Founder Mindset Tax](https://scalable.news/p/founder-mindset-tax): 👉 Your mindset is the OS the company runs on. I think underinvesting in it is the most expensive decision you'll make this year.
- [🧑‍🚀 Launch Your Agents](https://scalable.news/p/launch-your-agents): 👉 I've been running AI agents for months. The output is fine. Everything around it is exhausting. And I think there is a solution to this.
- [💰 Startup Salaries](https://scalable.news/p/startup-salaries): 👉 I explain why your next AI hire wants 60% more equity + PLUS: Sharing the fastest way to grow with influencer ads.
- [🌱 Seed is the new Series A.](https://scalable.news/p/seed-is-the-new-series-a): 👉 I think the seed market is split to two. One gets Series A money. The other gets the leftovers. Most founders are still pricing into the second one.
- [📝 Request For Startups](https://scalable.news/p/request-for-startups): 👉 If your "AI for XYZ" could be a feature inside someone else's product, you picked the wrong XYZ.
- [Less Product, More Moat](https://scalable.news/p/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. 
- [🧪 86% accuracy. 30 minutes. $20.](https://scalable.news/p/86-accuracy-30-minutes-20): 👉 I stopped doing user interviews. Here's user research, rebuilt for founders who ship fast.
- [Q1 Funding Debunked](https://scalable.news/p/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.
- [🧾 Read This Letter](https://scalable.news/p/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.
- [Pick an ugly problem](https://scalable.news/p/pick-an-ugly-problem): 👉 Stop building for everyone. Pick one ugly niche, learn its workflows better than anyone.