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150 Fundraising Advisors Who Only Get Paid If You Close
No retainers, success fee only, with self-reported fees and capital raised. Plus the vetting system, because half this market raised less than $1M last…
3 hrs ago • Ruben Dominguez
1,503 US Early-Stage Investors, Mapped: Pre-Seed to Series A
For every Series A fund in America there are 5.3 pre-seed and seed investors. The crunch you feel is visible in raw supply, and this is the map of where…
Sep 15 • Ruben Dominguez
The AI CEOs Asked for a Brake. Trump Said No. Here Is How to Plan Anyway.
Amodei, Altman and Musk converged on slowing down. The White House refused. You still have to decide what to build, where to work, and what to hold.
Sep 14 • Ruben Dominguez
YC Summer 2026 Batch⚡, 40 AI Tools for Founders🛠️, Europe’s Race to $1 Trillion💰
Another week, another pulse check on Tech.
Sep 13 • Ruben Dominguez
Travis Kalanick Says Excellence Is the Capacity to Take Pain. Here Are His 10 Rules for Building Through It.
The Uber founder raised $1.2B at a $17.5B valuation nine months after his last round, ran 5 fundraising rooms at once, and says none of it was ever…
Sep 11 • Ruben Dominguez
144 Family Offices That Cut Pre-Seed Checks
Named partners, LinkedIn profiles, sector tags and locations. Plus the outreach system that turns a list into replies.
Sep 10 • Ruben Dominguez
Social Media Has Changed Forever. Time to Prepare.
Follower count is becoming irrelevant and almost every content strategy in operation right now is still built around it.
Sep 9 • Ruben Dominguez
Why Your Best Early Investors Won't Always Follow You Into the Series A
It looks like a loss of confidence. Most of the time, it's just fund math nobody explained to you.
Sep 8 • Ruben Dominguez
How to Find Family Office Investors: The Claude Playbook
The contacts nobody can find, the warm intros hiding in your own network, and outreach where every message is written for one person.
Sep 7 • Ruben Dominguez
AI Will Collapse💥, Go Big or Go Broke🎯, The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations🤖
Another week, another pulse check on Tech.
Sep 6 • Ruben Dominguez
The Accelerator Atlas
613 Programs, 310 Cities, Terms, Apply Links
Sep 5 • Ruben Dominguez
24,541 Pitch Decks Tracked: Here’s Where Investors Stop Reading
Papermark analyzed 358,672 investor views to find what makes investors keep reading, where they drop off, and what founders should change before sending…
Sep 2 • Ruben Dominguez
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