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Your API Is Open for Business — So Are the Attackers

Jul 13, 2026

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5 min read

Your API Is Open for Business — So Are the Attackers

Every startup gets hit eventually. The ones that survive built the door before the flood.

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

News

The International Expansion Mistakes That Look Like Ambition and Cost Like Failure

May 25, 2026

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7 min read

The International Expansion Mistakes That Look Like Ambition and Cost Like Failure

Going Global Is Not a Growth Strategy. It Is an Operational Commitment That Most Startups Are Not Ready to Make When They Make It

Sanju G Prakash

Startup Ideas

Culture Is Not What You Write on the Wall. It Is What Behavior You Tolerate When Nobody Is Watching

May 22, 2026

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7 min read

Culture Is Not What You Write on the Wall. It Is What Behavior You Tolerate When Nobody Is Watching

Why Culture Interventions Fail — and What Founders Should Be Doing Instead, From Day One

Sanju G Prakash

Startup Ideas

Customer Success Is Not a Support Function. It Is the Most Underleveraged Growth Engine in Your Business

May 18, 2026

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6 min read

Customer Success Is Not a Support Function. It Is the Most Underleveraged Growth Engine in Your Business

Why the Fastest-Growing Companies Obsess Over Existing Customers Before They Obsess Over New Ones

Sanju G Prakash

Startup Ideas

Being Right About the Future Is Not Enough. Being Right at the Right Moment Is the Entire Game

May 11, 2026

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7 min read

Being Right About the Future Is Not Enough. Being Right at the Right Moment Is the Entire Game

Too Early Is Indistinguishable From Wrong Until It Isn't — Here Is How to Tell the Difference Before the Market Does

Sanju G Prakash

Startup Ideas

The Fastest Path and the Most Durable Path Are Not the Same Road. The Founders Who Confuse Them Rarely Finish Either

May 8, 2026

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7 min read

The Fastest Path and the Most Durable Path Are Not the Same Road. The Founders Who Confuse Them Rarely Finish Either

Patience Is Not a Personality Trait. In Company Building, It Is a Structural Advantage

Sanju G Prakash

Startup Ideas

Obsessing Over Competitors Is a Trap. Here Is What to Think About Instead

Apr 27, 2026

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6 min read

Obsessing Over Competitors Is a Trap. Here Is What to Think About Instead

How the Best Founders Read the Competitive Landscape Without Being Paralysed by It

Sanju G Prakash

Startup Ideas

The Co-Founder Relationship Is the Most Important Contract You Will Ever Sign—and Almost Nobody Reads It Carefully

Apr 20, 2026

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6 min read

The Co-Founder Relationship Is the Most Important Contract You Will Ever Sign—and Almost Nobody Reads It Carefully

Co-founder disputes are among the top three causes of early-stage startup failure. The frameworks that prevent them are simple. Almost no one uses them before the problems start

Sanju G Prakash

Startup Ideas

Raising Capital Is Not Progress. Knowing the Difference Is What Separates Good Founders from Great Ones

Apr 17, 2026

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6 min read

Raising Capital Is Not Progress. Knowing the Difference Is What Separates Good Founders from Great Ones

In a market this flush with capital, the discipline to raise wisely matters more than the ability to raise at all

Sanju G Prakash

Startup Ideas

The Metric You Inflate Today Is the Credibility You Lose Forever

Apr 10, 2026

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12 min read

The Metric You Inflate Today Is the Credibility You Lose Forever

This week an a16z-backed founder admitted to fabricating ARR. The damage was instant and total. Here's why honest numbers compound just like dishonest ones do

Sanju G Prakash

Startup Ideas

Apr 6, 2026

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11 min read

The Conversation You're Skipping Is the One That Determines Everything

$297B raised in a single quarter. The discipline that separates the companies that survive it is quieter than any of those numbers.

Sanju G Prakash

Startup Ideas

The Founder Who Can't Tell the Story Can't Close the Round, the Hire, or the Customer

Mar 30, 2026

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10 min read

The Founder Who Can't Tell the Story Can't Close the Round, the Hire, or the Customer

190 companies just pitched at YC Demo Day. The ones who raised weren't just the best products.

Sanju G Prakash

Startup Ideas

The Art of the Pivot: What Separates a Smart Course Correction from a Capitulation

Mar 27, 2026

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10 min read

The Art of the Pivot: What Separates a Smart Course Correction from a Capitulation

Granola started as a personal app. It's now a $1.5B enterprise platform. The pivot wasn't luck — it was discipline.

Sanju G Prakash

Startup Ideas

The Distribution Problem Most Founders Ignore Until It's Too Late

Mar 23, 2026

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11 min read

The Distribution Problem Most Founders Ignore Until It's Too Late

Cursor has 1M daily users. OpenAI just bought a Python tools startup. Both moves are about the same thing.

Sanju G Prakash

Startup Ideas

Your First Five Hires Will Make or Break the Company

Mar 20, 2026

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12 min read

Your First Five Hires Will Make or Break the Company

The first team sets the culture, the bar, and the ceiling. Here's how to get it right.

Sanju G Prakash

Startup Ideas

The PMF Illusion: Why Early Traction Lies to Founders More Than It Helps Them

Mar 16, 2026

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13 min read

The PMF Illusion: Why Early Traction Lies to Founders More Than It Helps Them

Early users love it. Investors are interested. Growth is up. And yet something isn't right — here's how to tell the difference.

Sanju G Prakash

News

Your API Is Open for Business — So Are the Attackers

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

The International Expansion Mistakes That Look Like Ambition and Cost Like Failure

Culture Is Not What You Write on the Wall. It Is What Behavior You Tolerate When Nobody Is Watching

Customer Success Is Not a Support Function. It Is the Most Underleveraged Growth Engine in Your Business

Being Right About the Future Is Not Enough. Being Right at the Right Moment Is the Entire Game

The Fastest Path and the Most Durable Path Are Not the Same Road. The Founders Who Confuse Them Rarely Finish Either

Obsessing Over Competitors Is a Trap. Here Is What to Think About Instead

The Co-Founder Relationship Is the Most Important Contract You Will Ever Sign—and Almost Nobody Reads It Carefully

Raising Capital Is Not Progress. Knowing the Difference Is What Separates Good Founders from Great Ones

The Metric You Inflate Today Is the Credibility You Lose Forever

The Conversation You're Skipping Is the One That Determines Everything

The Founder Who Can't Tell the Story Can't Close the Round, the Hire, or the Customer

The Art of the Pivot: What Separates a Smart Course Correction from a Capitulation

The Distribution Problem Most Founders Ignore Until It's Too Late

Your First Five Hires Will Make or Break the Company

The PMF Illusion: Why Early Traction Lies to Founders More Than It Helps Them

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