Growth
Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset: What the Evidence Actually Supports
The framework is useful. The overclaims are not. Here is what a founder should take from it, and what to ignore.
Owen Blackwood · September 30, 2026
Growth
Growth is examined as a set of measurable mechanisms rather than a stage of company life. Coverage includes acquisition channels and their economics, retention and churn curves, payback periods on paid spend, referral loops, and the saturation point where a reliable channel quietly stops paying for itself.
Growth
Visa Foundation Opens $2M Grant Call for Small Business Nonprofits
The money goes to the organizations that help small businesses, not to the businesses themselves. Here is what that means and who can apply.
Lena Fischer · September 29, 2026
Growth
How to Choose Your First Growth Channel Without Burning Runway
A testing framework for picking the one channel worth your next ninety days — and killing the rest fast.
Owen Blackwood · September 25, 2026
Growth
The 4 Numbers That Decide Whether You Raise or Bootstrap
Four figures — gross margin, payback period, CAC-to-LTV ratio, and growth rate against market speed — decide whether outside capital helps or merely rents your equity.
Lena Fischer · August 28, 2026
Growth
What a SAFE Actually Commits You To
A SAFE isn't stock and it isn't debt — here's what triggers conversion, what it doesn't guarantee, and where founders get dilution wrong.
Lena Fischer · August 15, 2026