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The Brief — The Independence Day Pricing Massacre
Size Your Market and Price Your Product With AI, in an Afternoon
The Risk Matrix Lies to You. Write the Autopsy Instead.
Your DTC Brand Doesn’t Need a Marketing Strategy. It Needs a Distribution Bet.
02
Jul
The Pre-Mortem: How to Kill Your Startup on Paper Before It Dies for Real
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Manav Gupta
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A pre-mortem asks the one question your business plan won't: assume you've...
02
Jul
The Brief — Sonnet 5 Eats the Default Slot
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Manav Gupta
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Anthropic drops near-Opus performance into the default tier, Google refreshes...
01
Jul
The AI Fundraising Stack: Deck to Data Room to Close
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Manav Gupta
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Every stage of a raise mapped to the AI tool that actually does the work — from...
30
Jun
What VCs Actually Look For in a Pitch Deck (It’s Not What Your Deck Says)
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Manav Gupta
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Investors don't read decks the way founders write them. Here's the scoring...
29
Jun
How to Read a Term Sheet: The Clauses That Actually Cost You
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Manav Gupta
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Founders obsess over valuation and ignore the three or four clauses that...
29
Jun
The Brief — California Bets on Claude
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Manav Gupta
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The largest US state AI deal puts Claude on every California government desk at...
27
Jun
The Autonomous Agents, Tested: Manus, Devin, and Operator Meet Reality
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Manav Gupta
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The general-purpose agents finally do real work instead of just talking about...
25
Jun
The Brief — Claude Puts On a Lab Coat
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Manav Gupta
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Anthropic sends Claude to the wet lab with a drug-discovery workbench, and...
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