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For many SaaS founders, creating a "free" tier feels like a mandatory rite of passage. It's seen as the ultimate top-of-funnel tool, a way to lower the barrier to entry and attract a flood of new...
Read ArticleEvery SaaS pitch deck we see today has the same three letters: PLG. Product-Led Growth has become the default claim for any founder seeking to signal capital efficiency and a modern GTM motion.
As a SaaS founder, you’re drowning in data. You have dashboards for ARR, sign-ups, churn, and a dozen other metrics.
Early revenue is exciting, but VCs don't fund heroic efforts. We fund repeatable engines. Here’s what we look for in your Go-To-Market strategy.
Making the right choice is pivotal. Making the wrong one can cost you 12 months and six figures in wasted capital. Here’s how to get it right
There comes a moment in every successful SaaS journey that no one prepares you for. It isn’t finding product-market fit or hiring your first employee.
As a SaaS founder, you’ve poured everything into building a product that solves a real problem. But let me ask you a question: how much time have you spent architecting your pricing page?
You’ve closed your funding round. The congratulations have faded, the money is in the bank, and now a new kind of pressure begins. In a month or so, it will be time to send your first investor update.
In the world of SaaS, the Rule of 40 is the gold standard for at-scale performance. The formula is elegant in its simplicity: your annual revenue growth rate plus your profit margin (typically...
Building a generative AI company in 2025 is a high-wire act. On one side, you have unprecedented power to create products that feel like magic.
For the past three years, the generative AI landscape has felt like a flat-out sprint. The pace of innovation has been blistering, a true Cambrian explosion of models, techniques, and applications.
Let me be direct: The growth hacks that built the last decade of SaaS unicorns are the very things that will kill your AI startup.
If you're an AI founder, you've heard the gospel preached from the stages of tech conferences and the boardrooms of Sand Hill Road: data is the new oil, and you need to own an ocean of it.
So, you’re building the future. Your AI model produces results that look like magic, and you have a vision that could redefine an entire industry.
It’s been an eventful few years. The generative AI wave that began as a tremor in late 2022 has reshaped the technological landscape.
For an early-stage founder in the generative AI era, the question of which foundational model to build on feels both urgent and overwhelming.
Over the past year, I've had conversations with dozens of AI founders. I see brilliant products, incredible user interfaces, and truly magical demos.
You did it. You fought the talent war and won. Your star physicist, with a string of citations from a top-tier university, turned down three other offers to join your mission. Congratulations.
The race to build a fault-tolerant quantum computer is, for now, a monolithic one. The world’s leading players—from established giants like Google and IBM to specialized leaders like Quantinuum and...
Your quantum startup is in a street fight with giants. Google, Microsoft, national labs—they are armed with billion-dollar budgets, lavish campuses, and the power to offer salaries that would make...
You’ve done it. After an exhaustive search, you’ve hired your first senior business executive—a brilliant, experienced leader poised to be your CEO, CPO, or CRO.
Spend a day reading headlines about quantum technology, and you'll be immersed in a global arms race for computational supremacy.
You walk into the meeting armed with your breakthrough. You have charts showing qubit fidelity, gate error rates, and coherence times that are among the best in the world.
The journey to build a fault-tolerant quantum computer is a capital-intensive marathon, not a sprint. The timelines are measured in years, and the required investment in fabrication facilities,...
You are preparing for your Quantum Series A. This is not a standard fundraising round. It is a deep, technical interrogation where your scientific claims will collide with brutal financial reality.
You've done it. After years of research, you have a quantum sensor in your lab demonstrating sensitivity that surpasses any classical device. Congratulations.
In the world of deep tech, and especially in the quantum realm, the announcement of a partnership with a major enterprise or cloud provider is a moment of profound validation.
Every quantum startup, born from brilliant science and immense ambition, eventually reaches a crossroads.
As an investor in deep technology, how do you diligence a quantum venture's commercial potential? The technical roadmap is often opaque, the path to profitability is measured in years, if not...
For decades, medical imaging has been a marvel of modern medicine, but it has operated under a fundamental limitation: it largely shows us anatomy.
For a pre-advantage quantum startup, a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) with a major enterprise is the single most powerful de-risking event you can achieve.
Your investors are pushing for "commercial traction." Your board advises you to "hire a real VP of Sales." So you do.
You are in the final stages of negotiating your first major enterprise partnership. It's the validation you've worked towards for years.
Your pitch to the enterprise R&D team was a success. They understood the physics, they were captivated by the potential of your technology, and they saw the long-term vision.
You’ve received a Letter of Intent (LOI) from a major corporation. The valuation is compelling, the strategic vision aligns, and after years in the lab and countless funding rounds, the finish line...
It’s Year 4 of your quantum startup. Your lead physicist, the one who architected your core qubit design, is a superstar. You are on the verge of a breakthrough that will define your Series B round.
You’ve had the breakthrough. In the quiet of the lab, after months of painstaking work, the data is unmistakable. You’ve created something new, something that works.
For a quantum startup, the "valley of death" isn't just a metaphor; it's a decade-long desert. Crossing it requires more than groundbreaking science.
In quantum computing, "fault tolerance" is the holy grail. It’s the ability of a system to produce correct results even when its individual components—the qubits—are noisy and error-prone.
As a founder in the quantum space, you live in a world of profound technical challenges. Your focus is on coherence times, qubit fidelity, and error correction.
You’re staring at a pitch deck promising to revolutionize medicine, finance, or materials science with a quantum computer. The potential is astronomical. But so is the risk.
History offers a powerful lesson for today’s technology investors. During the California Gold Rush of 1849, a few prospectors struck it rich. Most, however, went home with empty pockets.
You’ve done it. After years of painstaking research, you’ve pushed the boundary. Maybe you’ve achieved a record-breaking coherence time (T2), demonstrating your qubits can maintain their fragile...
India’s dental industry has witnessed significant growth over the years, driven by factors such as increasing awareness, improved healthcare infrastructure, and rising disposable incomes.
India’s vast population, including urban dwellers, often lacks awareness about oral health and hygiene. This ignorance leads to a significant gap in understanding the importance of dental treatments.
India, with its diverse population and varying socio-economic backgrounds, presents an interesting landscape for analyzing trends in dental service utilization.
India boasts a commendable dentist-to-patient ratio, nearly aligning with the World Health Organization’s recommendation of 1:7500.