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The Homepage Messaging Test That Every Founder Is Afraid To Run
Most founders think their homepage messaging is fine. This tool will tell you if it actually is.
Apr 15
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Chris Tottman
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The $852 Billion Secret That Just Got Out
OpenAI's cap table has leaked. The CEO owns nothing. SoftBank is up fifty billion dollars. And the entity sitting at the very top of the ownership…
Apr 13
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Chris Tottman
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The Number That Gets You Funded (Or Kills You In The Room)
Your CAC Payback Period is the metric investors probe hardest. Most founders walk into that conversation underprepared.
Apr 7
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Chris Tottman
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10 Questions We Always Ask Founders
After 400+ partner meetings, these are the questions that separate founders who understand their business from founders who think they do.
Apr 1
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Chris Tottman
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The Pricing System Behind Category Defining Companies
How the best founders turn pricing into a growth engine, not a number
Mar 30
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Chris Tottman
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🎯 The GTM Mistake That Kills More Startups Than Bad Products
You can have product-market fit and still fail. If your go-to-market motion doesn’t match your price point, your CAC will quietly destroy you.
Mar 25
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Chris Tottman
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🔮 The Number Every Investor Checks Before You Do. And Most Founders Get It Wrong.
Why your 36-month revenue forecast isn’t a spreadsheet exercise. It’s a survival tool.
Mar 23
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Chris Tottman
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The Number That Kills More Fundraises Than Any Bad Idea
Every investor asks it. Most founders get it wrong. Here’s why your market size slide is either your strongest asset — or the quiet reason you’re not…
Mar 16
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Chris Tottman
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🚨 Why 39,800 YC Applications Get Rejected — And The 200 That Don’t
The real framework YC partners use to filter 40,000 founders down to the few hundred they fund.
Mar 11
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Chris Tottman
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I Reverse-Engineered the YC Interview. Here's What They're Really Testing
YC doesn't tell you why you failed. I built something that does.
Mar 9
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Chris Tottman
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The Six Traits That Define Top 1% Founders
The psychological architecture investors quietly screen for before they ever take a meeting.
Mar 4
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Chris Tottman
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The Number That Will Decide Your Company’s Survival
A practical guide to modelling your future, not guessing it
Mar 2
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Chris Tottman
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