Guides

Guides to the work behind an investment decision

Three deep topics, each collecting every article we have written on it alongside the checklists and free calculators that do the same job in practice.

Pillars

Start with a topic

Each guide is a reading order, not a link dump — the articles run in the sequence the work happens.

Investment due diligence: a complete guide

A complete guide to investment due diligence: the workstreams, the questions investors ask, the red flags that matter, the data room, and how findings become a defensible memo.

Startup financials: unit economics, runway and valuation

A guide to the financial questions that decide early-stage outcomes: CAC, LTV and payback, burn rate and runway, how much runway to hold, and how pre-revenue companies get valued.