Startups & Venture
Insurance Canopy Bets on America's 28 Million Solopreneurs
Insurance Canopy is building liability coverage for solopreneurs — instructors, freelancers, gig founders — a 28M-strong U.S. market most carriers ignore.
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Startups & Venture
When Does a Startup Need a PR Agency?
PR is a force multiplier, not a foundation. Right moments: funding rounds, competitive category entry, pre-IPO, category creation, post-PMF. Wrong moments: pre-PMF, nothing to say.
Startups & Venture
GEO for Startup Funding: Turn a Raise Into Citation Share
A funding announcement is the highest-leverage moment a startup gets to enter the AI engines' index — and most founders waste it. Here's the GEO playbook for turning a raise into lasting Citation Share.
Startups & Venture
How to Hire a PR Agency for a Startup — The Decision Factors
The eight factors that decide whether a startup PR agency hire works or burns six figures a year. Senior attention, speed, journalist relationships, sector expertise, GEO capability, value, crisis response, cultural fit — plus the questions to ask before signing.
Startups & Venture
AI Is the New Pitch Deck: How Startups Win the Answer Box Before They Win the Round
More than a third of buyers now begin product research with AI, not Google. For startups, the AI engine's answer is the new first impression — the pitch deck nobody asked you to write, and you don't control it.
AI Communications
The VCs Quietly Building Positions in AI Communications
$250M+ into AI Communications since 2025. Profound $1B at 18 months. Lightspeed, Sequoia, Kleiner, Index, Forerunner, GV, Khosla, 20VC, Singular, Mayfield, Homebrew, Antler, YC writing checks.
AI Communications
How Startup Founders Are Using Lovable Before Hiring Engineers
Founders use Lovable AI to build the assets a company needs before it has an engineering team — landing pages, waitlists, working prototypes, investor and data-room pages, and internal tools — by describing them in plain English. Validate the idea before hiring engineers.
AI Communications
Inc. 500 Brands Need a New Press Playbook
Inc. 500 communications graduated into a harder problem in 2026: the answer layer. Most high-growth programs still optimize for press hits. The five-layer citation stack that wins the next round of buyers, investors, and acquirers.
Insights & Strategy
Productivity Is a Religion. Most Startups Are Heretics.
The 2013 throwaway line was the whole thesis. Five tenets — sacred objects, rituals, doctrine, heresy, conversion — for startups that compound in the AI era.
Startups & Venture
The AI Books Every Founder Should Read
Six books every founder should read on AI. Mollick, Lee, Suleyman, Hoffman, Harari, Solis — the AI-era founder canon as it exists in 2026.