Startup guides for founders

Topics

• Validation and discovery

  Startup validation and customer discovery

  • Idea validation
  • Customer discovery
  • Pricing research
  • Commitment signals
  • Problem maps
  • Proof and traction
• Pricing and revenue

  Pricing, packaging and revenue models

  • Pricing strategy
  • Value metrics
  • Revenue forecasting
  • Pricing pages
  • Price changes
  • Willingness to pay
• Finance and metrics

  Startup finance, metrics and unit economics

  • Unit economics
  • Metrics and dashboards
  • Billing pipelines
  • Reconciliation
  • Cohorts and retention
• Fundraising

  Fundraising and investor relations

  • Investor pipeline
  • Pitch and plans
  • Investor updates
  • SAFEs and cap table
  • Investor meetings
• Hiring and team

  Hiring, onboarding and team management

  • Hiring scorecards
  • Candidate screening
  • Onboarding
  • Manager load
  • Hiring fairness
  • Contractors and advisors
• AI agents at work

  AI models and agents on the business line

  • Model routing
  • Prompt design
  • Evals and gold sets
  • Human review
  • Agent permissions
  • Agent supervision
• AI costs

  AI model and agent costs

  • Token pricing
  • Cost attribution
  • Cost per task
  • Invoice reconciliation
  • Cost caps
• Ops and legal risk

  Operations, vendor and legal risk

  • Vendor contracts
  • Legal and redaction
  • Access controls
  • Process handover
  • Decision logs
  • Partner risk