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The Myth of Fast Growth

Most startup advice is generic and useless. After advising 100+ startups, here is what actually works when everyone else is chasing vanity metrics.

AI Content: Ditch the Hype, Build a Business

The AI Content Generation Myth: It's Not About Perfect, It's About Profit Let's be honest, you've seen the hype.

The Optimization Trap: Why Technical Founders Self-Sabotage

Premature Optimization Is the Founder’s Folly There’s a special kind of gravity that pulls technical founders toward performance, scalability, and “doing it...

The New Series A Reality: Why It Feels Harder (Because It Is)

If you're feeling like the ground is shifting under you when it comes to raising a Series A—you're right.

The Startup Reality Check: Payment, Promotion, and Pace

The Startup Reality Check: Payment, Promotion, and Pace: Most startup advice gets softened for comfort. This isn't that.

The Responsiveness Principle: How Small Signals Build Big Trust in Venture

Early-stage investing is often framed as a game of insight—pattern recognition, market timing, founder psychology.

The Secondary Celebration: A Founder's Perspective on VC Liquidity Events

During my morning LinkedIn scroll, I came across yet another post from a venture firm celebrating a massive return multiple from a secondary transaction.