Create and follow simple, effective finance processes without complex software or a CFO. Most startups do not 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.” Finance gets pushed to “later, when we’re…
The best lead generation does not feel like selling. It collects signals: people taking a scorecard, joining a waitlist, applying to a group or turning up to a session. Those signals tell you who has the problem, how badly and what they will pay. In 2026 there is a second reason to work this way….
AI makes building fast and copying even faster. When a competitor can rebuild your demo in a weekend, the model is not your advantage. What protects you is everything around it: how deeply you sit in the workflow, the data and evaluations only you have, how you price, and how much customers trust you. This…
This is a practical guide to building, and delivering, a pitch deck that gets attention from angels, seed funds, accelerators and VCs. You’ll get a structure built around what investors look for, the mistakes that quietly kill pitches, and a seven-day plan to rebuild your deck. The goal: cover the essentials in five to ten…
The wave of startups building propositions on top of AI keeps growing. To see how, we analysed every startup Y Combinator backed between 2021 and 2025: 2,538 companies from 67 countries (64% in the US) across 40 industries. For each one we recorded its primary AI proposition (automation, augmentation, autonomous or other), how much its…
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