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Fundraising

Startup Financial Model: The Complete Guide to Raising Capital in 2025

How to build a financial model that convinces investors. 5-year projections, unit economics, funding scenarios. The guide used by 500+ startups.

Dec 20, 2025
25 min
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Fundraising

Startup Pitch Deck: The Complete Guide to Win Investors [2025]

How to create a pitch deck that raises capital. 12 essential slides, real examples (Airbnb, Uber), fatal mistakes to avoid. Complete guide + templates.

Dec 20, 2025
22 min
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Fundraising

Startup Fundraising: The Complete Guide from Pre-Seed to Series A [2025]

From Pre-Seed to Series A, valuation, term sheets, due diligence. How to raise funding for your startup. Complete step-by-step guide.

Dec 20, 2025
24 min
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Metrics

CAC, LTV & SaaS Unit Economics: The Complete Guide [2025]

How to calculate CAC, LTV, LTV/CAC ratio, payback period. Formulas, SaaS benchmarks, real examples. The metrics that matter to investors.

Dec 20, 2025
20 min
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Validation

Validate Your Startup Idea: The Complete Validation Guide [2025]

How to validate a startup idea before coding. Validation framework, customer interviews, MVP, product-market fit. Complete guide + templates.

Dec 20, 2025
20 min
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Validation

How to Know if Your Startup Idea is Good: 7 Validation Criteria

The 7 scientific criteria to evaluate your idea before investing time and money. Learn how investors actually assess startups.

Dec 20, 2025
12 min
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Strategy

Competitive Analysis: The 16 Fields You Must Document

Complete framework for competitive analysis: positioning, pricing, strengths, weaknesses. Templates included for 2025.

Dec 20, 2025
14 min
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Product

User Stories & Gherkin: The Specification Revolution

How Gherkin syntax revolutionizes product specifications. Write requirements developers actually understand and can implement.

Dec 20, 2025
10 min
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Product

3 Personas vs 10 Personas: Why Less is More

Why 3 well-defined personas beat 10 superficial ones. The strategic persona framework for startups and product teams.

Dec 20, 2025
9 min
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Pricing

Pricing Strategy: The 3 Mistakes That Kill SaaS Startups

Underpricing, complexity, and ignoring psychology. These 3 pricing mistakes destroy 68% of promising SaaS businesses.

Dec 20, 2025
11 min
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Product

MVP Roadmap: From 100 Features to 10 That Matter

How to ruthlessly prioritize and go from a wish list of 100 features to the 10 that will make your MVP a success.

Dec 20, 2025
13 min
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Metrics

LTV/CAC Ratio: The 5 Mistakes That Mislead Founders

LTV/CAC is the most important SaaS metric, but also the most miscalculated. Avoid these 5 common mistakes.

Dec 20, 2025
10 min
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Fundraising

VC-Ready Financial Model: 13 Criteria Investors Demand

The 13 specific criteria VCs check in your financial model. Excel template included + real examples.

Dec 20, 2025
16 min
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Strategy

TAM SAM SOM: How to Calculate Market Size (The Right Way)

Top-down vs bottom-up analysis. How to calculate TAM, SAM, SOM with credible data sources. Real examples included.

Dec 20, 2025
14 min
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Fundraising

Pitch Deck: The 14-Slide Structure VCs Actually Want

The exact 14-slide structure that top VCs expect. Why each slide matters and what content goes where.

Dec 20, 2025
15 min
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Fundraising

Due Diligence: The 47-Document Checklist VCs Request

The complete checklist of documents investors request during due diligence. Be prepared before they ask.

Dec 20, 2025
18 min
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