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We’ve glamorized the wrong heroes. Startups raise $5M and celebrate. But they have no revenue. No profit. No product-market fit. Just a deck, a dream, and a burn rate. Meanwhile, there’s a quiet founder pulling $40k/month from a boring SaaS with 0

Raising Pre-Seed Money? Here’s What No One Tells You Pre-seed funding’s brutal—investors want traction before you’ve barely started. Here’s the secret: strong personal branding can tip the scales. Early founders who share their vision online,

did we get pre seed before anything like just pitch the idea to investors and get

idk why my last post didn't get enough of the reach when I was just offering free pitch decks to 3 startup founders in exchange of exposure. you start-up owners have no idea how much a pitch deck can matter in order to get you fundings. HURRY UP befo

The best fundraises I've seen in 2025 were basically closed before the deck was even finished. Why? Because the founder started fundraising before the raise. Not with a pitch. Not with a deck. With a whisper. They socialized the round early. Th

Most founders talk too much. When you’re in front of an investor, you’re not selling a product—you’re selling a mission. But many treat it like a sales pitch. They ramble. They explain every feature. They forget: time is oxygen. The real challenge

How Much Should You Raise at Idea Stage? Most founders either raise too little or too much. Here’s a simple mental model 👇 🔸 Don’t raise for 18 months You’re not scaling - you’re validating 🔸 Don’t raise based on “runway” Raise based on milesto

A startup’s financial model is simple: Pre-seed = hope. Seed = still hoping. Series A = hope with a pitch deck. Series B = hope with revenue. Series C = hope we IPO before running out of hope.

Every funding round tells a story.
 Not just of product-market fit, but of founder-market fit. 
Not just of capital raised, but conviction earned. Look closer and you’ll see the patterns: 1) AI startups aren’t raising because they’re AI. They’re ra

𝗶 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀. one word shows up again. and again. and again. 𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧. not customer focus, not customer service — obsession. jeff didn’t build an empire by thinkin