How to Get Startup Funding
The order it happens in, and the proof you need before you ask.
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The order it happens in, and the proof you need before you ask.
Read →Two generations of the same idea, and a straight answer for each.
Read →Google published in May that it isn't a separate discipline. I agree with them, and I think the question is still the wrong one.
Read →I had our managed agent grade five real pitch decks as they stood the day they were sent, with no peeking at how each story ended.
Read →Which structure, which state, which service, and the 2025 tax change that quietly reshaped the answer.
Read →What happens to your application after you hit submit, from the other side of the table, and the one thing worth doing before you send it.
Read →Two exits, three closures, one pattern: every time the tools get good enough to do the next layer of the job, I build the company that puts them to work.
Read →Industry researchers have started calling it the supervision gap. AI agents are getting real authority inside companies faster than anyone is assigning a human who answers for them.
Read →I asked four AI engines to draw the line. They agree on the shape of it, even though none of them credits us with an answer yet.
Read →I've started companies in five different decades. The first week has never looked like this.
Read →Business process automation has been right in concept and wrong in implementation for thirty years. AI changes the implementation.
Read →A practitioner's map of the AIO tool landscape, from unicorn trackers to free native reports, and the reliability problem nobody prices in.
Read →We measured our own context window. Most of it wasn't the work.
Read →The demos are identical. The difference is who reviews the work, and the ethics rules will not let you skip it.
Read →Anthropic's Claude Marketplace takes 0% commission. That's not generosity. It's the smartest platform move of 2026.
Read →The full methodology behind our fundability reviews: eight ranked dimensions, five red-flag gates, how stage moves the weights, and why there is no canonical weight table.
Read →Twelve terms for how embedded work behaves when the worker is an agent.
Read →The embedded agency worked in your Slack. The next one works in your AI.
Read →Most advice on this starts with content. After six weeks of running the work on our own site, content is the fourth thing I would check, not the first.
Read →Anthropic's crawler visits us more than Google's. Claude still can't cite us, and the reason is a search index almost nobody checks. A diagnostic you can run on your own site in five minutes.
Read →A 1966 paper route, two bullies, my mother with a broom, and the accidental education in cross-selling that followed.
Read →Two-thirds of Google searches now end without a click. Why getting found is moving from ranking on a page to being cited inside an answer.
Read →Software is at its best the day you buy it. An agent with a working improvement loop should be at its worst on day one.
Read →Second in the series: exceptional traction, a $335M round about to close, and one red-flag gate that refused to go along. Then we check the tape.
Read →Five questions about the agent and its management, five about the paperwork, and the answer that should end the meeting.
Read →A proof hierarchy for demand: stated interest, revealed commitment, retention, revenue, and why the standard rises with the round.
Read →How to turn the oldest cliché in venture into a test you can actually score.
Read →First in a series where we score a famous deck the way we'd score yours, knowing nothing about how it ended, then check the tape.
Read →A field report from standing up a scheduled Claude agent: five rounds with a safety classifier, one invented company policy, and the case that the management is the product.
Read →The top-down TAM slide as a tell, the bottom-up number that earns trust, and the three market shapes that decide whether venture money fits.
Read →Our paralegal agent ran more than thirty candidate names through a real trademark screen before becoming Devorah. Naming an AI agent turns out to be a legal decision first, a branding one second.
Read →Founder-market fit as an unfair advantage, the lived-it versus shipped-it split, and why the team that names its gaps beats the one that looks flawless.
Read →Three numbers a seed-stage founder has to ground in reality, one they're allowed to guess, and the model mistake that sinks the rest.
Read →We're opening early access to Chet, a managed agent that answers your Claude and Cowork questions from inside the workspace you're already working in.
Read →Most pitches explain why the product is better. The question that decides funding is whether better will last.
Read →Five flaws that end a fundraising conversation no matter how strong the rest of the plan looks.
Read →The amount you raise gets the least thought and tells an investor the most. Here's how to choose it on purpose.
Read →'We have no competitors' is the most self-defeating line a founder can put in a deck. Here is what it tells a reader, and what to write instead.
Read →You would never ship your MVP to your whole market at once and learn from the churn. So why pitch your plan to fifty investors and learn from fifty rejections?
Read →The method I use when I read a plan: score the evidence, not the idea.
Read →A hundred comparison posts rank a dozen tools across forty features. At zero subscribers, only three of those features matter. Here's how to choose.
Read →The same business plan deserves a different grade at pre-seed, seed, and Series A. Here's how the weighting actually shifts.
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