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August 2026

The Startup Marketing Advice Nobody Gives You Until You Have Wasted a Year
Half the articles published on the internet last year were written by machines and founders are still being told to start a blog.
 • Ruben Dominguez
How to crack YC investing🎯, AI Intelligence Is Becoming the Primitive Layer💡, European VC Valuations Climb📈
Another week, another pulse check on Tech.
 • Ruben Dominguez
180 Emerging VC Funds Actively Investing in 2026
First and second vintages, all deploying right now. Free. Plus 20 matched investor pitches on September 17.
 • Ruben Dominguez
Granola's Growth Playbook: Wedge, Moat, Pricing, Context Layer
Ten levers from $0 to $1.5B in three years. Stealth year, no-bot bet, 12.5x cost collapse, MCP pivot.
 • Ruben Dominguez and Ivan Landabaso
Did the Price of Starting a Startup Just Fall Off a Cliff?
Solo founders need 60% less capital to reach product market fit. Here is why VCs should care.
 • Ruben Dominguez
Guillermo Rauch on the Software Factory🧠, Always-On GTM Team🤖, How SaaS Companies Are Positioning Around Claude🥊
Another week, another pulse check on Tech.
 • Ruben Dominguez
Best-performing investors to target as a founder: not just the famous names
A Stanford GSB professor’s alternative to the Midas List
 • Ilya Strebulaev
AWS Gives You $1,000. Or $300,000. Same Form
The difference is one field: your investor’s fund ID. We mapped 95 compute credit programs, and 23 of them need no investor at all
 • Ruben Dominguez
Your Top 20 Investor Matches, Free, in 30 Seconds
293 active VCs, angels, and family offices, filtered by your stage, sector, and geography. No signup. Plus 20 guaranteed 1:1 pitches on September 17.
 • Ruben Dominguez
Most Founders Hire Their First Engineer Too Early, Too Fast and for the Wrong Reasons
The hiring playbook everyone is still running was written for a market that closed in 2022.
 • Ruben Dominguez
AI Adoption Is a Myth⚖️, Anthropic Could Be Worth $2 Trillion at IPO💵, The Claude Prompts That Close Rounds in 2026🤝
Another week, another pulse check on Tech.
 • Ruben Dominguez
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