startups
46 essays tagged startups
Aug 3, 2026
Win at One Thing Before You Become a Platform
3 min read
Aug 1, 2026
The Weekly Progress Email Is an Artifact, Not Bureaucracy
2 min read
Jul 30, 2026
Synchronous Cloud Development Is the Next Wave
2 min read
Jul 24, 2026
Build the Infrastructure, Not the Harness
3 min read
Jul 23, 2026
Hourly Billing Cannot Survive Agents
2 min read
Jul 20, 2026
Don't Build the Eleventh CLI
2 min read
Jul 9, 2026
The Three Services That Sell an Agent Platform
2 min read
Jul 4, 2026
Price for Adoption First, Profit Later
2 min read
Jul 1, 2026
The Fifth Inning and the First
2 min read
Jun 29, 2026
Remote Teams Run on Written Decisions, Not Hallway Conversations
2 min read
Jun 28, 2026
Code Became Ephemeral, and Quality Became Blast Radius
3 min read
Jun 26, 2026
Awareness Is the Hardest Problem, and Content Is the Secret Weapon
3 min read
Jun 20, 2026
Self-Hosted Is Where the Real Pull Is
2 min read
Jun 16, 2026
The First Agent You Should Ship Is the Operational Discipline Layer
2 min read
Jun 13, 2026
Give the Young Hire Four Jobs in Two Years
2 min read
Jun 12, 2026
Hire the Engineer Who Wants to Sell
2 min read
Jun 11, 2026
You Cannot Measure Progress on Work You Never Defined
3 min read
Jun 10, 2026
When Building Is Cheap, GTM Is the Only Edge
2 min read
Jun 6, 2026
Your Real Competitor Is the Internal Build
2 min read
Jun 2, 2026
Everything Was an AWS Wrapper Too
3 min read
May 28, 2026
Own the Compute Layer or Pay Someone Else's Margin Forever
2 min read
May 27, 2026
The Forward-Deployed Engineer Is the Wedge
3 min read
May 21, 2026
What I Learned Shutting Down OSSRank
3 min read
May 20, 2026
Follow No Goose Absolutely
8 min read
May 19, 2026
Because I Had To
4 min read
May 18, 2026
The Long Game in Agent Companies
2 min read
May 14, 2026
From Agent to Platform: Why the GTM Is Services-Shaped
2 min read
May 11, 2026
The Design Partner Discipline
2 min read
Apr 7, 2026
Crowded Starting Line, Empty Finish Line
2 min read
Mar 29, 2026
Always Too Early, Never Wrong
2 min read
Feb 18, 2026
The Tembo Manifesto
9 min read
Feb 15, 2026
Outbound Sales Is Broken (And AI Won't Save It)
2 min read
Jun 14, 2023
How to Test a Software Startup Idea
2 min read
Feb 16, 2023
The Dual Flywheels of Modern Open Source Commercialization
3 min read
Jun 8, 2022
The Fatal Pitch Mistakes (and What Actually Lands)
2 min read
Jun 7, 2022
The Five-Step Pitch Framework
2 min read
Jun 6, 2022
The Four Pillars of a Seed-Stage Pitch
2 min read
Oct 31, 2017
How to Succeed in the Data Revolution
5 min read
Oct 31, 2017
The Quest for a Lead Investor
2 min read
Oct 24, 2017
From Behavioral Analytics to Data Science
8 min read
May 9, 2016
How to Measure Data-Drivenness
2 min read
Jan 27, 2016
Our Review of AngelPad: "Game Changing"
6 min read
Jan 6, 2016
The Growing Data Opportunity
6 min read
Aug 28, 2015
Professional Services for an Early Stage SaaS Company
6 min read
May 25, 2015
Don't Sleep on User Retention
2 min read
Dec 28, 2014
Collect Stories of Astonishment
3 min read
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