Founders can measure hundreds of things—traffic, clicks, MRR, DAUs, feature usage, NPS, pipeline… but early-stage momentum usually comes down to a small set of fundamentals. After reviewing thousands of companies (and building a few), most tech startups can sanity-check their trajectory with five core metrics: Plus one bonus metric investors Read more
Generative AI gave businesses content and copilots. Agentic AI is giving them something more disruptive: autonomous agents that can plan, decide, execute transactions, recover from errors, and collaborate with other agents across tools and systems. In other words, we’re moving from “AI that helps humans” to AI that operates alongside Read more
Network effects can create outrageous growth. But they also create a brutal strategic tension: the very thing that makes a network valuable (lots of users) is the thing you don’t have at the start—so you’re often forced to price at zero to get momentum. That tension is the network pricing Read more
For a modern founder—especially one building with AI and agentic technologies—understanding network effects isn’t optional. It’s the mathematical architecture of value. Most founders talk about “viral growth,” but there’s a critical distinction: If you only have virality, you can grow fast… and churn just as fast. If you have real Read more
AI didn’t just change what startups can build — it changed how startups should be built. The old “industrial” org chart (layers of managers, siloed departments, slow handoffs) was designed for control and coordination. In the AI era, the limiting factor is speed: speed to ship, speed to learn, speed Read more
Most startups don’t fail because they were “a bit worse” than the competition.They fail because business outcomes follow power laws: a few companies capture almost all of the value, while most get nearly nothing. If you design your company as if the world were linear and fair, you become another Read more
Create and follow these simple but effective Finance processes without complex software or a CFO. Most startups don’t die because of bad products, weak teams, or tiny markets. They die because the founder wakes up one day and realises: “We’re out of money… and I saw it too late.” Early-stage Read more
Imagine having a steady queue of ideal customers waiting to work with you—before you’ve even finished building the product. Most founders obsess over features and funnels, but the real leverage comes from creating visible demand: scorecards that diagnose problems, waitlists that prove people care, discussion groups that build trust, and Read more
Introduction: Why this guide & how it helps you AI makes building fast—and copying even quicker. This guide helps you pick and defend a wedge that customers love and competitors struggle to clone. We’ll translate expert advice into plain actions: where to hunt for ideas that aren’t “GPT wrappers,” what Read more
Introduction & what you’ll get from this blog This is a practical, no-fluff guide to craft (and deliver) a pitch deck that gets attention from angels, seed funds, accelerators, and VCs. You’ll learn the investor-first structure, the common failure points, and the talk-track that turns a one-way demo into a Read more