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“Daylight is me finding my own identity.” Solo Founder Playbook — Anjan Katta Edition Last week, Anjan Katta, Founder & CEO of Daylight, joined us for dinner at the SFP house. He spoke candidly about the brutal difficulty of building Daylight — solo founder, consumer hardware, deep tech during COVID — but also
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There’s a strong case for solo founders as the default path, but there are good reasons to have a co-founder. My goal is to articulate the less obvious ones.
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Loyal’s STAY clinical trial is now fully enrolled with 1,300+ dogs across 72 vet clinics. Solo Founder Spotlight - Celine Halioua (Loyal) This milestone is huge. STAY — a double‑blinded, placebo‑controlled study — is a pivotal step toward developing what could become the first FDA‑approved lifespan‑extension
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MagicSchool Makes Waves — 5 Million Educators and a $45M Series B We generally say that conferences are a distraction unless they’re where your customers are — then they can be goldmines. In 2023, MagicSchool debuted at the world’s biggest edtech gathering with a folding table, a few balloons, and
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Validate, Monetize, Repeat. Peter Kazanjy, author of Founding Sales, on taking your startup from first validation to repeatable revenue. Peter Kazanjy is a repeat founder who taught himself sales by doing it. He founded TalentBin, a talent search engine and recruiting CRM, and later sold the company to Monster Worldwide.
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Solo founder → 6 months → $80M sale to Wix Solo founder Maor Shlomo just sold his new company, Base44, to Wix for $80M — only six months after he wrote the first lines of code on a post–reserve–duty backpacking trip - and without a dollar of external funding. Shlomo isn’
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“Don’t let AI guess what good code looks like — show it explicitly.” Insights drawn from Namanyay’s (SFP S25) deep dive into an ex-Scale AI engineer's “gold-standard” files workflow. Namanyay’s newest Cursor teardown reveals a dead-simple way to stop wrestling with messy AI output: gold-standard files.
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“Candidly speaking, Wander is my soul, but as a company” John Andrew and the Wander team just closed a $50M Series B, co-led by Fifth Wall and QED Investors. Another big win for solo founders — congrats, John Andrew and team! What’s Wander? Think Airbnb-style vacation homes with the consistent