Practical Playbooks for Building with AI, Raising Capital, and Running Lean
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Business Exit Strategy: Get Ready for M&A
A business exit strategy is your plan for leaving the company you built: who buys it, what you walk away with, and what your life looks like after.
AI-Driven Scaling: Workflows for Core Operations
AI for small business operations works best when applied to repeatable drafting, summarizing, and triage inside a clear operating rhythm.
Give your AI a second brain (and five operating rules)
One file and an Obsidian vault give my AI assistants a persistent second brain and five operating rules that survive every session reset.
Generate images in Claude with a free model council
Claude has no built in image generator. Here is how to generate images in Claude by driving free OpenAI and Gemini CLIs in parallel.
Seven venture capital firms actively investing in AI
Seven venture capital firms investing in AI right now: their signature bets, their stage focus, and how founders and investors should read them.
The hard mechanics of venture capital
A guide to how venture capital really works: why taking startup funding is a binding commitment to hyper-growth, founder dilution, and board governance.