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Founders should raise venture capital only when money is the limiting factor on growth. Treating fundraising as success can distort incentives, encourage unnecessary spending, and leave companies trapped at valuations their businesses may never justify.
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AI shopping agents could capture the customer relationship without owning fulfillment, shifting economics away from marketplaces' ads and commissions.
Is your team better at getting excited about the next project or finishing the current one?
GPU prices have surged from $4.40 to $8.08 per GPU-hour due to rising data center construction costs.
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Your business moves quickly. Your money should, too. Stripe Treasury brings payments and financial tools together, helping you pay vendors, send payouts, issue cards, and manage cash flow with less complexity. Instead of stitching together separate systems, your team can manage more financial workflows on the platform you already use for payments. That means less time navigating disconnected tools and more time focused on your business. From everyday operations to your next stage of growth, Stripe Treasury gives you flexible infrastructure to move money faster, streamline how work gets done, and build financial operations that can adapt as you scale.
Buy a business that already has customers, the licenses, and the trust, and then change how the work gets done with AI agents. Around $5 trillion worth of businesses in the US will change hands by 2035. Most of these belong to boomers heading into retirement. Many of them have nobody lined up to buy them. This guide walks readers through how to find the right business, buy it, and run it with agents.
Pat Grady frames AI as a technology wave that is bigger, faster, and fundamentally different because progress increasingly comes from computation. His reflection for Boston College's Investment Committee examines how that shift is reshaping technology and investing.
The last generation of enterprise software was built around proprietary data and workflows. The next will be built around the intelligence derived from them. Frontier labs will continue pushing the ceiling of general intelligence, but enterprises will take that intelligence and teach it what only they know. Companies with enough proprietary data, expert judgment, workflow volume, and distribution will have the raw materials to produce proprietary intelligence of their own.
You will always regret letting one of the truly irreplaceable people on your team leave. This usually happens with scale. As things change, you need larger teams and different processes, and new executives may not think these employees are so irreplaceable. However, they are the ones who truly know how and why everything works and are often the best to help figure out how the next move can work. Top performers are the people you'd rehire into their role - irreplaceables are the ones you would rehire into a role that doesn't exist yet.
An acquirer may love your product and still decide it's faster to build its own. Gusto's cofounder explains that AI has shortened the time the company expects internal development to take, making acquisitions harder to justify. His example is hypothetical. If buying a company saves 18 months' worth of $50 million to Gusto, a business with $5 million in revenue might fit at a 10x multiple. One with $50 million in revenue probably won't. Your revenue can raise your asking price without increasing how much development time the buyer saves.
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The hard part of payroll, HR, and benefits integrations was never the code — it's walled gardens, data mapping, and auth. A Finch engineer explains what AI changed, what it didn't, and when building wins.
n8n now has Agents. Developers describe what an agent should do, give it a model, tools, and workflows, and it works out the steps itself. An agent can be reached through Slack, run on a schedule, or called from any workflow. The same agent runs in every one of those places. Videos on how to use the agents in real-world applications are available.
Parallel provides data connectors that connect agents to sources beyond the public web. Categories span company, people, financial, commerce, web, news, and health care & life sciences data. Visitors can request a source or connect their data to the platform. Pricing is pay-as-you-go, and users can run up to 5,000 requests per month for free.
Alexandria is a knowledge library for superintelligence that gives agents tools like the live web, official providers, and specialized indexes. It provides a world of data with just one library. There are over 113 million indexed sources, 93 providers, 640 capabilities, and 20 categories. Data providers can join a waitlist to get paid for sharing their data.
Before Cal AI reached a reported $50 million in annual recurring revenue, one founder's mom had to co-sign the company bank account. Two of the four founders were still in high school. People now ask how they assembled that team, but the answer involves a cousin's YouTube recommendation, a cold DM, and meeting a future cofounder while working at another startup. There was no recruiting process to copy. The advice is more realistic: look for someone who is available and can learn, and expect to offer enough money or equity to make joining worthwhile.
Software accrues value by creating dependencies that compound over time and raise switching costs. These dependencies compound internally as the product embeds deeper into workflows and externally through network effects and ecosystem adoption. Dependencies inside critical systems get a value multiplier because ripping them out threatens the business itself. Resulting revenue from these embedded software systems funds new features that create new dependencies, creating a Value Accrual Flywheel.
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After nearly a decade of R&D, Doroni unveiled a showroom model of its H1-X flying car. Morgan Stanley projects a $9T market by 2050. First deliveries are targeted for 2028.
PULL makes startups take off as long as they design everything around it.
Supervoting shares allow founders to control companies with minimal ownership by granting disproportionate voting rights.
Every AI tool is missing critical features needed to do real work with it.
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AI-native company Lovable operates with a flat structure, minimizing traditional titles and meetings, while fostering high autonomy and rapid adaptation. The dynamic environment encourages employees to automate tasks and focus on high-impact, individual contributions, resulting in blurred roles and responsibilities. AI agents, paired with human "agent parents," support daily operations, highlighting the shift towards leveraging AI in company operations.
36.1% of YC companies with an MCP server have no public API. 36.2% in the 2025 and 2026 batches served an llms.txt. The public API share has barely moved across batches. 81 of the 5,635 reachable YC domains are listed in the official MCP directory.
Companies are buying more software than ever, but there's no loyalty anymore. They leave the moment something better ships. Migrations are now free, and contracts are monthly. Companies need to have the best product for the week, and then do it again next week. It's no longer about protecting a moat, but going out on the attack.
SaaStr's inbound AI agent conducted 17,000 conversations and booked 600 meetings, boosting new business by 60%. Key improvements included replacing long forms with real-time qualification and direct meeting booking on high-intent pages. The self-serve agent enhanced this by creating personalized, trackable documents and employing heat mapping for deeper insights, supported by a lightweight, custom booking system on their site.
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Kiro turns your prompts into specs, designs, and tested code — not just prototypes. Spec-driven development means your AI-generated code actually makes it to production.
Fast Search runs on a Rust-based retrieval and ranking service called Photon that Perplexity built with a small team of engineers and hundreds of agents. It returns 95% of search results in 230 milliseconds or less. Fast Search has a median latency of 160 milliseconds, and it spends less on compute on ranking than Perplexity's default preset. Photon now handles all of the retrieval and ranking across Perplexity, replacing the open-source engine the company was using before.
Amazon CloudWatch Omni is an AI-powered observability experience for applications and agents. Working in Omni does not require access to the AWS Management Console. The telemetry sent to CloudWatch automatically appears in Omni with no reconfiguration required. Any other workload instrumented with OpenTelemetry sends its telemetry to an OpenTelemetry Protocol endpoint.
ElevenLabs' Image & Video API allows users to generate images and videos with the same ElevenLabs API used for speech. It supports 18 models, including Veo 3.1, Seedance 2.5, GPT Image 2.5, and Nano Banana Pro. The API is available today on Pro plans and above. Generations cost the same credits as in the ElevenLabs app, and failed generations aren't charged.
Venture due diligence for deep tech has worsened, driven by deployment pressure, herding behavior, reliance on lead investors' reputations, and the removal of independent expert review layers. Deals in frontier tech sectors like AI and quantum often close rapidly without thorough technical vetting, exposing investors to unverified risks. Limited partners are advised to mandate independent technical feasibility reviews before deep-tech investments to enhance diligence and protect their capital.
Getting there fast doesn't mean you've built something great. Teams need to decide whether a direction is the best, whether the product fits the team, and whether the product is worth building. The teams answering those questions well are strong in speed, direction, and differentiation. They'll keep moving through the final stretch, weigh many directions before betting on one, and shape the result into something only they would make.
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Vacation Tracker's landing page sat online for 18 months before someone on the waitlist tracked down the founder to ask when it would launch.
Good product ideas often fail to survive classic development processes due to ineffective prioritization, flawed specification, and compromised implementation.
Demand is a normal distribution with a fat middle, and tokens may shift to a commodity as intelligence per dollar explodes.
Customer service may end up being the ultimate differentiator in a world where it's easier than ever to start and scale a new business. Start by developing a culture that obsesses over the customer and their entire experience from beginning to end. Every interaction is an opportunity to deliver a branded experience. Deliver a different, better experience, and focus on the right critical input metrics. Don't just run by the numbers - use the rich context about the customer experience that your customer service teams have.
AI is making jobs become much more interdisciplinary and require higher-level thinking as a result. Commercial employees' work is becoming more technical, and R&D employees' work is becoming less technical. AI serves as an effective boundary-spanning mechanism that helps professionals reason across traditional domain boundaries and approach problems more holistically. It is making less and less sense to define oneself by a narrow task bag.
A good pricing constitution is intentionally restrictive and chooses hard trade-offs. You can tell your constitution is working when it actually costs you something. This kind of constitution is critical infrastructure if a company is going to ship in a rapid, iterative way. Everyone needs to be on the same page for pricing and the philosophy behind it so teams can make decisions for themselves and stay moving in the same direction.
The percentage on your cap table is not the number that decides anything. Supermajorities increase the veto power of investors. One transaction may have to clear two or three separate majorities. The drag-along can compel shareholders to approve a sale that pays them nothing.
A customer selects “too expensive” when cancelling. You offer a discount, but they still don't come back. The price may have been easier to explain than why they stopped using the product. RevenueCat's data puts insufficient usage slightly ahead of price among cancellation reasons, at 37% versus 35%. This guide shows how to investigate the behavior behind those answers. Look for an action that long-term subscribers repeat during their first billing cycle, then help new users reach it. A cheaper subscription doesn't give someone a reason to open the app.
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Anthropic and OpenAI both released new models within an hour of each other. OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol and Luna are half the price of the promotional pricing for GPT-5.6 equivalents. Opus 5.5 is cheaper per token than Opus 5.0 and has the intelligence of Fable 5.1. It is very token efficient and works across every effort level.