The first year bruises harder than the pitch deck
Notes from seven years in startups — what beginners miss, and what veterans forget to re-check.
Startup life sells the launch. What actually teaches you is the quiet month after the first “almost.”
I write here about the startup world as I have lived it: SaaS, deeptech, edtech, grants, and the slow craft of seeing a product clearly. Sometimes that means events worth attending. Sometimes it means admitting a hypothesis died.
You don’t need to know the field to work with me. Come curious and we can figure it out together. And if you already know your way around, a fresh perspective can still uncover something you haven’t seen.