This AI-powered startup studio plans to launch 100,000 companies a year — really
Henrik Werdelin has spent the last 15 years helping entrepreneurs build big brands like Barkbox through his startup studio Prehype. Now, with his new, New
The Best Venture Studios Do Less to Win More - Gary Coover - Medium
In startup life, founders win by doing more. But in venture studios, the opposite is true: doing less — exceptionally well — is the key to outsized success. Most venture studios share a familiar…
I went from being a bad writer to a good writer after taking a one-day course in “business writing.” I couldn’t believe how simple it was. I’ll tell you the main tricks here so you don’t have to waste a...
When Pearl Jam's Ten came out a decade ago on August 27, 1991, pretty much nobody cared. Unlike Nirvana's Nevermind, which a month later revolutionized
Top Insights from YC AI Startup School 2025 - Saket Reddy - Medium
Last week, I had the privilege to attend YCombinator’s (YC) first-ever AI Startup School, from June 16–17, 2025. YC assembled a truly impressive list of speakers for the event: Sam Altman, Anthropic…
A few miscellaneous thoughts. (1) First, the new bottleneck on AI is prompting and verifying. Since AI does tasks middle-to-middle, not end-to-end. So business spend migrates towards the edges of prompting and verifying, even as AI speeds up the middle. (2) Second, AI really means amplified intelligence, not agentic intelligence. The smarter you are, the […]
State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents Full talk: Here's a summary of key prompt engineering techniques used by some of the best AI startups: Be Hyper-Specific & Detailed (The "Manager" Approach): Summary: Treat your LLM like a new employee. Provide very long, detailed prompts that clearly ...
How much we express love predicts how much we feel loved in daily life. Increases in expressing love led to increased feelings of being loved; however, increases in felt love did not lead to increases in expressing love. People who experienced more feelings of love had higher levels of flourishing. : r/science
This is nature's periodic reminder that we are responsible for running arbitrarily operationally effective space programs.
The last time something this large didn't miss us by a whisker it ended the dinosaurs.
They didn't have a space program. We do, but ours can't even figure
Preparing a Successful Venture Studio Startup Fundraise
Venture studio startups are often seen as the snow leopards of the startup ecosystem — an exotic breed familiar to most investors in name and description, but few have actually encountered in the…