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AI agents are no longer demos. They are running payroll, closing deals, and deploying code in production. The question is no longer whether agents work. It is who captures the value.
Read Dispatch→Bolt.new let anyone build a full-stack app by describing it in plain English. It grew faster than almost any developer tool before it, and it was not even built for developers.
While the world watched OpenAI and Google trade benchmarks, Anthropic built the enterprise AI business that actually matters.
India is now producing more unicorns per capita than any country outside the US. The second wave of Indian startups looks nothing like the first.
Lovable let non-technical founders go from idea to working prototype in minutes. It hit $17M ARR before most people in Silicon Valley had even heard of it.
The most fundable companies right now are not building flashy consumer products. They are solving tedious problems in unglamorous industries. On purpose.
Stripe Atlas has incorporated tens of thousands of startups since 2016. We looked at what the survivors have in common and what killed the rest.
For two years, big tech hoarded AI talent with $10M compensation packages. That strategy just collapsed, and startups are the beneficiaries.
A new generation of Indian SaaS startups is winning global customers not by copying Silicon Valley, but by building better products at a fraction of the cost.
Selling your startup for $20 million sounds like a dream. Until you watch it become worth $2 billion under someone else. A cautionary tale about timing your exit.
SpaceX is not just a space company. It is the most important case study in startup history about what happens when a founder refuses to accept that something is impossible.
The new wave of tariffs is reshoring supply chains and disrupting global trade. For the right founders, this is the biggest opportunity in a decade.
A Chinese lab with a fraction of the budget just forced every AI company on the planet to rethink their cost structure. Here is what it means for founders.
Aravind Srinivas left Google to build a search engine nobody asked for. Two years later, it is worth $9 billion and challenging the most entrenched monopoly in tech.
A small team forked VS Code, added AI, and built one of the fastest-growing developer tools ever. The story of Cursor is a masterclass in product timing.
The largest venture round in history tells us more about the state of AI competition than any benchmark ever could.
Patrick and John Collison built Stripe because accepting payments online was unreasonably hard. Fifteen years later, it processes over $1 trillion annually.
The 18 months after your seed round are the most dangerous period in a startup's life. Here is what kills companies and how to avoid it.
Melanie Perkins was rejected by over 100 investors before building one of the most valuable private companies in the world. Here is the full story.
Nithin Kamath built India's largest stock broker without spending a single rupee on advertising. The Zerodha playbook is one of the most underrated growth stories in fintech.
The biggest AI opportunities are not in building general-purpose assistants. They are in going deep on a single industry and owning it completely.
Notion almost ran out of money twice. The founders moved to Kyoto, rebuilt the product from scratch, and created one of the defining productivity tools of the decade.
Forget the advice about perfect pitch decks and warm intros. Here is what actually gets first-time founders funded.
When Adobe tried to acquire Figma for $20 billion and regulators blocked it, everyone expected Figma to struggle. Instead, it accelerated.
The dismissal of AI wrapper startups is one of the worst takes in venture capital right now. Here is why many of them will become massive companies.
Girish Mathrubootham built Freshworks into a publicly traded company worth billions, proving that world-class SaaS can be built from India.
The venture market in 2024 is nothing like 2021. Here is what founders need to understand about raising capital in the current environment.
Conventional wisdom says you need a co-founder. Our portfolio data says otherwise. Solo founders are underrated, and here is why.
Two IIT Roorkee graduates built India's largest payments company by solving a problem that frustrated every online business in the country.
Forget vanity metrics. Here are the five numbers that early-stage investors actually care about, and how to get them right.
Sharing your startup journey publicly has become a trend. But does transparency actually help your business, or is it just performance?
Tobias Lutke built Shopify because he wanted to sell snowboards online. That side project became the backbone of internet commerce.
After reviewing thousands of applications and working with dozens of portfolio companies, the same patterns of failure keep showing up. Here they are.
Ben Chestnut and Dan Kurzius never raised venture capital. They built Mailchimp slowly, profitably, and on their own terms. Then Intuit bought it for $12 billion.