The SaaS Pricing Lie: Why Per-Seat Doesn't Scale
Per-seat pricing is a legacy model from when humans were the unit of work. AI is exposing the lie: vendors want seats, not efficiency. Here's what's replacing it....
The Outsourcing Boomerang
Only 23% of offshore partnerships succeed. Hidden costs in rework, management overhead, and quality remediation often exceed what internal development would have cost. Here's why the boomerang always ...
When to Kill Your Company
Knowing when to shut down is harder than knowing when to start. The sunk cost fallacy kills more founders than failure....
Meetings Are Bugs in Your Organization
Unproductive meetings cost $37 billion annually. They're not collaboration - they're organizational bugs. Here's how to diagnose the root cause and fix the process....
The Exit Planning Gap
48% of founders planning to sell have no exit strategy. M&A accounts for 85%+ of VC-backed exits. The founders who get the best outcomes planned for them....
AI Sovereignty: The Expensive Illusion Every Nation Is Chasing
Every nation wants AI sovereignty. Only the US and China have anything close to it. The rest are buying sovereignty as a service from the countries they're trying to escape....
Open Source Isn't Free
Open source software has a price tag of $0 and a total cost of ownership that can dwarf commercial alternatives. The 'free' in free software refers to freedom, not cost....
Why a Priced Round is "Safer" Than a SAFE
Despite the comforting acronym, a SAFE is often anything but safe for a founder. Learn why priced rounds offer better protection for your cap table....
Why Bootstrapped Companies Win
VC funding creates misaligned incentives. Bootstrapped companies often build better products and more sustainable businesses....
The 10 Architecture Decisions That Kill Startups
The architecture mistakes that kill startups: premature microservices, wrong database choices, god objects, missing observability, and more. Patterns that repeat across failed companies....
The Technical Due Diligence Checklist
A comprehensive checklist for evaluating startup technology: architecture, code quality, infrastructure, team, and security. Based on patterns from evaluating dozens of startups....
Startup Metrics Theater: Vanity vs Value
Vanity metrics like DAU and total downloads create illusions of progress while hiding real problems. The metrics that predict survival - retention, churn, unit economics - often hurt to look at....
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