Business
6 essays on this topic.
Investors or Independence? When a Small Startup Should Raise
Outside money buys speed, but it costs control and adds pressure. A plain-language framework for deciding if, when and why a small startup should raise.
AI Won't Replace Small Business Owners. It Will Replace Their Busywork.
AI won't run your shop or know your customers. But it can take over the copying, sorting and reminding that eat a small business owner's day.
Boring Businesses Make the Best Businesses
Payroll, invoices, cleaning schedules: unglamorous problems people gladly pay to solve, and why boring businesses are often the best ones.
Read Every Word You Sign: Term Sheets for First-Time Founders
Valuation, dilution, liquidation preference, board seats and vesting, explained in plain language for first-time founders reading a term sheet.
People Don't Pay for Features. They Pay to Do Less.
Most founders sell what their product can do. Customers buy what they no longer have to do. A short essay on the most underrated idea in business: removing work.
Your Real Competitor Is a Spreadsheet
Most software doesn't lose to another startup. It loses to Excel, Google Sheets and a paper notebook. Why that happens, and how to win anyway.
