Supernovas or Shooting Stars: What Bessemer’s 2025 AI Data Says About the Right Growth Path
Every founder wants to be the startup that hits $100M ARR in 18 months. It’s a compelling story — one […]
BUY THEN BUILD
How Smart Entrepreneurs Acquire Cash-Flowing Businesses and Turn Them Into Wealth Machines Core Idea (The One Sentence) Don’t start from
AI Natives: Companies Built for an AI-First World
Every platform shift creates a new class of companies that look obvious in hindsight and non-obvious in the moment. The
The Product Is a Commodity. Distribution Is the Business.
White-labeling somehow became a dirty word in startup circles. It gets lumped in with “lazy,” “low quality,” and “no moat.”
How Startups Use AI to Iterate 100x Faster to Product-Market Fit
The path to product-market fit used to take years. Now, AI-powered startups are compressing that timeline from years to months,
The Storytelling Guide for Entrepreneurs
Founder: Dr. Malpani, every pitch deck article says, “Tell a story.” Investors want stories, customers want stories, even team members want
The advice I give to all founders
This is a conversation I had with a first-time entrepreneur. “Dr. Malpani… can I be honest?” “You’d better be,” I
When Intelligence Outpaces Action: Why Agency Wins in Startups
There’s a quiet contradiction in the world of startups. So many founders, who are clearly intelligent, nonetheless feel deeply frustrated.
Why Startups Overpromise and Underdeliver
Why Startups Overpromise and Underdeliver 1. The Funding Game rewards storytelling, not truth Investors don’t ask: “What can you actually
Founder–Investor Expectation Matrix
Align expectations before you align signatures This will prevent 90% of future boardroom fights by forcing alignment before money enters