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Weekly briefings for founders who want the signal before the market consensus.
The briefing covers founder decisions, market movement, category shifts, and the few patterns worth carrying into a Monday meeting.
Founders, operators, sales leaders, and investors.
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Weekly Briefing
Fundraising
Series A Slowdown: What the Data Actually Shows in 2026
Series A processes are running months longer than founders plan for. Here is what the best-prepared founders are doing differently to compress that timeline.
Weekly Briefings
Latest Briefings
The most recent issues, covering the market shifts and founder decisions that mattered this week.
Weekly Briefing
The Founder Visibility Shift: Why Series B Investors Are Googling You Before the Meeting
Rajiv Sankarlall
April 14, 2026
Weekly Briefing
Enterprise Sales Cycles in 2026: What Actually Changed
Rajiv Sankarlall
April 13, 2026
Weekly Briefing
Platform vs. Point Solution: The Decision Every Founder Is Navigating Right Now
Rajiv Sankarlall
April 7, 2026
Weekly Briefing
The Three Board Relationships That Determine How Much Room a Founder Has to Operate
Rajiv Sankarlall
April 4, 2026
Weekly Briefing
Q1 2026 Founder Decisions Roundup: The 5 Moves That Mattered
Rajiv Sankarlall
March 31, 2026
Weekly Briefing
The ICP Audit: How to Know if Your Customer Profile Has Drifted
Rajiv Sankarlall
March 31, 2026
Briefing Archive
Previous issues covering the decisions and market patterns that shaped each week.
01Mar 25, 2026
Weekly Briefing
The Operator's Guide to Surviving a Down Round
A down round does not have to be a death sentence for company culture. But the communication mistakes most founders make in the first 72 hours can cause more damage than the valuation hit itself.
Operations8 min
02Mar 24, 2026
Weekly Briefing
The AI SDR Reckoning: What Happens When Outbound Gets Automated
AI-native outbound tools have matured to the point where companies are questioning whether the traditional SDR function belongs on the payroll at all. What that shift is doing to hiring, GTM budgets, and the founders navigating it.
GTM8 min
03Mar 14, 2026
Weekly Briefing
Series A in 2026: What the Data Actually Shows
The average Series A is taking 30% longer to close than in 2022. The founders compressing that timeline are doing three specific things differently.
Fundraising6 min
04Feb 12, 2026
Weekly Briefing
The Operator's Guide to Surviving a Down Round
A down round is not a failure event. How a founder handles it determines whether it becomes one.
Fundraising6 min
05Feb 11, 2026
Weekly Briefing
How the Best Companies Survive a Market Contraction
Market contractions are character tests for companies. The decisions made in the first 90 days of a downturn, about cash, about people, about customers, about strategy, determine whether the company that emerges is stronger or permanently smaller.
Operations7 min
06Dec 31, 2025
Weekly Briefing
What Founders Get Wrong About Enterprise Sales
The first enterprise customer is a founder achievement. The second is a sales process question. Most founders conflate the two, which is why so many companies stall at five or ten enterprise logos.
GTM7 min
07Dec 17, 2025
Weekly Briefing
The Board Dynamics No One Prepares Founders For
The board relationship is the most consequential relationship in a founder's professional life, and the one they receive the least preparation for. The dynamics that catch founders off guard are predictable. They just aren't taught.
Fundraising8 min
08Dec 3, 2025
Weekly Briefing
The GTM Strategies That Built Category Leaders
The companies that won their categories did not win because they had the best product at launch. They won because they understood where their first 1,000 customers would come from before they wrote the first line of code.
GTM8 min
09Nov 26, 2025
Weekly Briefing
What the Best Founders Do in Their First 90 Days as CEO
The first 90 days of the CEO role are disproportionately consequential, not because that is when the important work happens, but because that is when the organization decides what kind of leader you are.
Leadership7 min
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