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The Security Gaps Founders Miss When Vibe Coding a Product Website

AI coding tools let a solo founder ship a working website in hours. That speed is real. So is the attack surface it creates if you don't know what to harden before you go live

Sanju G Prakash

Startup Ideas

The Data Room: Your Startup's First Impression on Investors

Jul 3, 2026

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4 min read

The Data Room: Your Startup's First Impression on Investors

The Startup Data Room Explained

Sanju G Prakash

Startup Ideas

What It Actually Takes to Get Funded in 2026

Jun 29, 2026

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5 min read

What It Actually Takes to Get Funded in 2026

The Evidence Investors Actually Want Before They Write the Check

Sanju G Prakash

Startup Ideas

Oversight Is the Product, Not the Compliance Step

Jun 26, 2026

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4 min read

Oversight Is the Product, Not the Compliance Step

Why the AI Companies Winning Regulated Industries Build Oversight First

Sanju G Prakash

Startup Ideas

Jun 22, 2026

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6 min read

Why the Smallest Market Often Wins

The Wedge Strategy Most Founders Skip — and Regret

Sanju G Prakash

Startup Ideas

What Actually Makes an AI Startup Defensible

Jun 19, 2026

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4 min read

What Actually Makes an AI Startup Defensible

Odyssey raised $310M building world models. Twenty raised $100M building sovereign cyber capability the model layer cannot touch. Neither is betting on the model being smart. Both are betting on something harder to copy

Sanju G Prakash

Startup Ideas

Jun 15, 2026

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8 min read

The Build vs. Buy Decisions That Become the Most Expensive Choices in a Company's History

Technical Debt Is Not a Engineering Problem. It Is a Strategic Tax That Founders Impose on Their Own Companies — and Most Don't Notice Until They're Paying at Scale

Sanju G Prakash

Startup Ideas

The Cognitive Traps That Make Smart Founders Consistently Wrong at the Moments That Matter Most

Jun 12, 2026

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8 min read

The Cognitive Traps That Make Smart Founders Consistently Wrong at the Moments That Matter Most

Good Founders Make Good Decisions Occasionally. Great Founders Build Systems That Make Good Decisions Consistently

Sanju G Prakash

Interviews

The First Twenty People Set the Ceiling. Most Founders Don't Treat the Decision That Way

Jun 8, 2026

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7 min read

The First Twenty People Set the Ceiling. Most Founders Don't Treat the Decision That Way

Talent Density Is the Variable That Predicts Company Outcomes More Reliably Than Almost Any Other — and Most Founders Optimize for the Wrong Version of It

Sanju G Prakash

Startup Ideas

Why Most GTM Failures Are Architecture Failures, Not Execution Failures

Jun 5, 2026

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8 min read

Why Most GTM Failures Are Architecture Failures, Not Execution Failures

Go-to-Market Is Not a Sales Plan. It Is a System Design Problem — and Most Founders Are Solving the Wrong One

Sanju G Prakash

Startup Ideas

The Legal and Structural Foundations Most Founders Ignore Until a Term Sheet Exposes Them

Jun 1, 2026

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7 min read

The Legal and Structural Foundations Most Founders Ignore Until a Term Sheet Exposes Them

The Decisions That Seem Like Paperwork Are the Ones That Determine Who Owns the Company When It's Worth Something

Sanju G Prakash

Startup Ideas

When Capital Gets Selective, the Companies Worth Building Become Easier to Identify — Including Your Own

May 29, 2026

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7 min read

When Capital Gets Selective, the Companies Worth Building Become Easier to Identify — Including Your Own

The Decisions That Separate Durable Companies From Performative Ones Are All Made During the Hard Periods

Sanju G Prakash

The Security Gaps Founders Miss When Vibe Coding a Product Website

The Data Room: Your Startup's First Impression on Investors

What It Actually Takes to Get Funded in 2026

Oversight Is the Product, Not the Compliance Step

Why the Smallest Market Often Wins

What Actually Makes an AI Startup Defensible

The Build vs. Buy Decisions That Become the Most Expensive Choices in a Company's History

The Cognitive Traps That Make Smart Founders Consistently Wrong at the Moments That Matter Most

The First Twenty People Set the Ceiling. Most Founders Don't Treat the Decision That Way

Why Most GTM Failures Are Architecture Failures, Not Execution Failures

The Legal and Structural Foundations Most Founders Ignore Until a Term Sheet Exposes Them

When Capital Gets Selective, the Companies Worth Building Become Easier to Identify — Including Your Own

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