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Essays on the production gap, startup strategy, and the founder’s inner operating system. The weekly playbooks live in the AI-Native Founder newsletter, and the running LinkedIn series lives in Field Notes.
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Nobody Is Taking Your Word For It
Nvidia closed on Hugging Face, AI’s share of pre-seed dollars stopped rising, and what kills enterprise pilots is not the model. Three places where a claim now needs paperwork.
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Fundraising Fundamentals — Lesson 3: Inside the Room
The Build Log · What actually happens in a partner meeting, why your pitch is really a briefing for people who are not there, and the two agents that wrap every investor conversation
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The Week Your Stack Became a Counterparty
OpenAI is cutting Cursor off, a quarter-billion dollars went into agent security, and the scarcest input in AI is now a verified human. Every vendor in your stack has interests of its own.
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Fundraising Fundamentals — Lesson 2: The Pipeline Math Nobody Warns You About
The Build Log · Why rejection is structural, what the 2025 seed market did to your funnel, and the agent that builds your investor pipeline while you build the product
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From the archive
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The Entrepreneur Extinction Event (And How to Be the Asteroid)
The entrepreneur extinction event: GPU scarcity isn't killing startups, it's rewriting the rules so solo founders outbuild teams with 50x their res…
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Economic Trends
A talk on reading economic trends: the economic, credit, and technology cycles that move venture funding, and how founders position for the shifts …
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Entrepreneurial Mindset
A talk from The Inside-Out Entrepreneur on the entrepreneurial mindset: the resiliency, clarity, and purpose founders need to last the whole journey.
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Tech & AI Innovation
A talk on AI innovation and where it takes startups: how generative tools collapse costs, reshape competition, and hand small teams enterprise-scal…
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Startup Leadership
A startup leadership talk on leading early-stage teams: hiring A+ people, giving real ownership, telling one clear story, and pacing the company to…