Collection · 9 articles
Startups.
Research for startup teams building and growing products.
Cofounder of Lazyweb (a16z Speedrun). Previously grew subscriptions and built native ads at Duolingo. Writes First1000 (90,000+ subscribers).
original analysis · 2026-09-19
.com still leads .ai across nine YC cohorts
A current snapshot of listed website TLDs across 1,586 YC directory rows, with .com and .ai counts kept separate from launch-time history or adoption claims.
original analysis · 2026-09-19
YC S26 lists 56 industrial companies, up from 15 in S25
A current YC primary-industry comparison of Summer 2026 against Summer 2025 and Summer 2024, using consistent primary-industry fields and visible cohort denominators.
comparison · 2026-09-19
Cranston, Balance and Arden: three different businesses hiding inside AI accounting
A founder-facing comparison of tax-prep software, outsourced AI accounting, and internal-audit automation, with responsibility boundaries and a worked Cranston pricing model.
comparison · 2026-09-19
Clicks Health, Novoflow and Amera are not selling the same healthcare agent
A healthcare procurement comparison separating provider back-office agents, computer-use EHR deployment, and payer claims infrastructure.
comparison · 2026-09-19
Caseflood vs Concorda: legal AI before the case and during the case
A legal-AI comparison separating intake and client conversion from litigation execution, with Concorda's public Team-plan arithmetic and Caseflood's managed-service boundary.
comparison · 2026-09-19
Should you buy Crouton or build your own living ownership map?
A founder decision model for choosing a static org chart, an internal allocation layer, or Crouton when customer ownership changes across teams.
analysis · 2026-09-19
What can a CPA firm calculate from Cranston’s per-return pricing?
A dated worked model for comparing Cranston’s public per-book and per-return rates with a CPA firm’s own preparation and review economics.
comparison · 2026-09-19
Should your construction AI start in the design model or the field report?
A construction-market comparison that separates ArchiLabs design automation from Opusense field reporting by buyer, input, deliverable, timing, and price.
Research and comparison · 2026-09-19
Which YC companies are the most useful public industrial-software peers for a founder?
Six YC industrial-software peers mapped to buyer, deployment boundary and the first proof a founder can test. Includes a dated 56-company homepage-link analysis.