Sandstone raises $30M to bring AI to in-house legal teams
Sandstone’s Series A was led by Lightspeed Partners, with participation from Sequoia.
My Startup Hit a $120 Million Valuation — Everything Came Down to These 4 First-Year Decisions
Your first year as a founder isn’t defined by your idea — it’s shaped by the structural decisions you make early. Learn the four critical choices that determine control, runway, momentum, and long-term survivability.
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7 Costly Financial Mistakes That Can Quietly Derail a Growing Startup
From weak bookkeeping and tax missteps to contractor errors and missed incentives, these seven financial mistakes can quietly drain cash, increase risk and slow startup growth before founders even notice.
Don’t Limit Your Product to 1 Market — Build With Expansion in Mind. Here’s How I Did It.
Most companies build products for the market in front of them. The companies that last build platforms that can expand far beyond it.
Someone Stole 1,000 Racks of Shake Shack’s Baby Back Ribs. It Almost Killed Their Hottest New Sandwich.
A truckload of ribs vanished in Mexico last month, nearly killing Shake Shack’s newest menu item. The CEO says the chain almost ran out.
Lovable says it has hit $500M in annualized revenue, with 1 million new projects a week
Lovable says it has now surpassed $500 million in annualized run-rate revenue and its users are building businesses and replacing internal software.
How an e-scooter founder raised $5 million to build space data centers
Orbital founder Euwyn Poon built 250,000 scooters at Spin. Now he wants to launch 10,000 space data centers.
Evotrex raises $30M to build the RV that doesn’t need a charging station
The startup is one of many entering the RV space, but it’s banking on a hybrid power system that can go far beyond campsites.
Zepto’s IPO filing reveals fast growth, bigger losses, and a valuation question nobody’s answered yet
Zepto’s advertising revenue jumped 151%, outpacing the company’s 104% growth in operating revenue.
Why Apple’s slow-and-steady AI bet is starting to look pretty smart
Can Apple’s new AI glow up put to bed accusations that it’s losing an all-important industry race?
Mercor’s Brendan Foody calls out Sequoia over ‘dual-pricing’ valuation tricks
Sequoia is just one of the top firms that sells same equity at two different prices.