The gist: Scaling AI agents requires treating them like employees in regulated roles, with written rules, clearly defined responsibilities and a named human manager accountable for their performance. Guest author Rick Folgmann, COO at Get Covered, tells companies they should start with tasks governed by established rules, adjust
The gist: False claims about customers, revenue and AI capabilities can expose founders to personal securities-fraud liability, with D&O insurance offering limited protection against established misconduct. Guest author Kyle Jeziorski of Founder Shield shares three policy provisions that need close attention from founders.
The gist: AI agents create new trade secret risks by allowing employees to access expertise or inadvertently expose proprietary information through personal devices. In this guest commentary, Seth Kugler, a partner at Grellas Shah LLP, warns companies that they should adopt strict AI policies, restrict data access on unmanaged d
The gist: In this guest article from Airrived co-founder and CEO Anurag Gurtu, he contends that Anthropic’s rapid revenue growth does not justify its proposed $2 trillion IPO valuation, given enormous infrastructure commitments, safety concerns, customer concentration and competition from cheaper open-weight models, saying inste
The gist: As AI agents increasingly recommend and purchase products, brands must appeal to both machines and humans by documenting their voice, creating clear product descriptions and checking how AI summarizes their messaging. Guest author Toby Coulthard suggests that startups should build these practices in from the outset, pr
The gist: Startup acquisitions can reshape employees’ finances and careers, with individual outcomes depending on a variety of conditions. Guest author Ron Honig, co-CEO and managing partner of From-Honig Family Office, suggests that before making major life changes, employees should clarify their award rights, when proceeds wil
The gist: Founders can build billion-dollar businesses without venture capital by prioritizing customer revenue, pricing for quality, hiring exceptional talent and automating processes to scale efficiently, argues Nacho De Marco, who draws on his experience bootstrapping BairesDev, to emphasize financial discipline and a lasting
The gist: Enterprise AI companies relying on armies of forward deployed engineers are disguising labor-intensive services as scalable software, inflating recurring revenue and valuations while falling short of autonomy claims, argues Anurag Gurtu, co-founder and CEO of Airrived. In this guest commentary he urges buyers and inves
The gist: As AI enables smaller, faster teams, companies should hire curious, adaptable people who challenge established practices and can be trusted to make independent decisions, according to guest author Eric Francia, who writes that giving employees real responsibility, encouraging questions and investing in continuous learn
The gist: Complex, interconnected problems like compliance require a comprehensive product from the outset, argues guest columnist Daniel Kjellén, CEO and co-founder of Freda. Drawing on his experience selling Tink, he explains how repeat founders can combine capital, credibility and hard-earned lessons with AI’s development spe
The gist: The next generation of super apps will likely emerge in markets where widespread mobile access, weak competition, poor financial services and crises that erode trust in banks create demand for a single trusted platform, writes guest author Nnamdi Okike, co-founder and managing partner of 645 Ventures.
The gist: As AI IPOs bring greater scrutiny, argues guest author Maor Farid, founder and CEO of Leo AI, investors will increasingly prioritize customer spending growth, sustainable margins and deployment efficiency over rapid revenue growth alone.
The gist: For startup founders, the goal shouldn’t be assembling a cap table filled with whoever was willing to invest, but rather intentionally constructed around investors who bring different forms of value. Guest author Antonia Dean, a partner at Black Operator Ventures, shares three things founders should look for in their i
The gist: The 2026 IPO market is reopening selectively, favoring large companies that spent the slowdown strengthening their financial reporting, governance and operations, writes guest author Mark Williams, chief revenue officer, enterprise, at Datasite, who explains why that readiness gives businesses options: list, raise priv
The gist: The most-fundable startups prioritize a clear go-to-market strategy and test distinctive marketing channels early, treating distribution and disciplined focus as durable competitive advantages, explains guest author Aaron Golbin, a co-founder and general partner at LvlUp Ventures, who believes that seed-stage success d
The gist: AI startups are reaching massive valuations and liquidity events so quickly that young founders and employees often acquire life-changing wealth before they are prepared to manage it. Ron Honig of From-Honig Family Office, advises that the company's financial plans should remain flexible, balancing long-term security w
The gist: The standard four-year founder vesting schedule can leave departed founders with large equity stakes, complicating financing and control, and prompting costly litigation aimed at reclaiming shares. Guest author David Siegel, a partner at Grellas Shah LLP, shares ways startups can reduce these risks.
The gist: AI itself is no longer a durable differentiator, argues guest author SC Moatti of Mighty Capital, who says he strongest startup moats are counter-positioning and network economies.
The gist: Guest author Alberto Onetti, chairman of Mind the Bridge, shares how South Korea’s rise to the world’s eighth-largest national innovation ecosystem shows how sustained government investment, startup programs, regulatory reforms and deep-tech policies can transform an economy over time.
The gist: The traditional VC model funds a risky search for product-market fit, argues guest author Richard de Silva of Lateral Investment Management, while bootstrapped founders typically start with known customer problems, prioritize profitability and grow steadily from revenue rather than outside capital.
