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ISSUES 57LATEST SEP 16, 2026AUTHOR ANDRE RETTERATH
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SEP 16, 2026
💥How to Win Family Office LPs, Why LPs Need VC Exposure, More Shots Needed at Seed, Incumbent Squeeze & More
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SEP 13, 2026
🔥The Win Game: What Happens After Everyone Has Seen the Deal?
ANDRE RETTERATH
03
SEP 8, 2026
💥Fundraising Tips in a Consensus Market, Where to Invest in AI, Business Models Replacing SaaS, Fund Concentration Math & More
ANDRE RETTERATH
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SEP 6, 2026
🔥World's Hottest Startups in September 2026
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05
SEP 3, 2026
🔥AI Creates More Startups - But Fewer Winners
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AUG 30, 2026
🔥Who Should Own the Tech Stack: Investors vs Engineers
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07
AUG 27, 2026
🔥What Thousands of VC Agents Do All Day
ANDRE RETTERATH
08
AUG 25, 2026
💥VC Ranking Flaws, Borderless Founders, Tender Offers on the Rise, VC Network Atrophy & More
ANDRE RETTERATH
09
AUG 23, 2026
🎙️How I Invest: The AI-Native VC Firm
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AUG 19, 2026
💥Top Employers to Create Outlier Founders, State of Pre-Seed, Cost of AI Talent, Tech Stack Ownership & More
ANDRE RETTERATH
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AUG 16, 2026
🔥Record Investments, Slowing Economy - Here's the State of the Market in August 2026
ANDRE RETTERATH
12
AUG 14, 2026
🔥How to Build an AI Harness for Your Investment Firm, One Workflow at a Time
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13
AUG 11, 2026
💥Personal AI Operating Stack, What Got Hyped vs What Got Built, How VCs Decide & More
ANDRE RETTERATH
14
AUG 9, 2026
🔥Do Investors Still Need a Lawyer?
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AUG 5, 2026
💥Why Job Descriptions Are Dead, Do Funds Need Developers?, Opportunities Across the AI Stack, AI GTM Strategies & More
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AUG 2, 2026
🔥World's Hottest Startups in August 2026
ANDRE RETTERATH
17
JUL 31, 2026
🔥 Here's the Modern VC Tech Stack
ANDRE RETTERATH
18
JUL 29, 2026
💥How Top 5% VCs Keep Winning, Time Between Rounds, Reserve Strategies, State of SPVs & More
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JUL 26, 2026
The Analyst Role Is Dead, No?
ANDRE RETTERATH
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JUL 22, 2026
💥The Mark Up Game, Making of a Unicorn Founder, Capital Allocation's Death, AI Infra Eats Series A & More
ANDRE RETTERATH
21
JUL 19, 2026
🔥What's Hot in M&A, Multiples by Sector, Concentration at the Top - Here's the State of the Market in July 2026
ANDRE RETTERATH
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JUL 16, 2026
✍️Top 10 Takeaways from the Data Driven VC Landscape 2026
ANDRE RETTERATH
23
JUL 14, 2026
💥AI Kills Junior VC Roles, Fundraising Benchmarks, Mega-Funds Eating Themselves, Founder Branding System & More
ANDRE RETTERATH
24
JUL 12, 2026
🔥How to Gain an Edge When Everyone Uses the Same AI Model
ANDRE RETTERATH
25
JUL 9, 2026
🚨The Data Driven VC Landscape 2026 Is Here🚨
ANDRE RETTERATH
26
JUL 7, 2026
💥Guide to Fable 5, Power Law Everywhere, VC Media Machines, AI in PE & More
ANDRE RETTERATH
27
JUL 1, 2026
💥Agents vs Headcount, VC Content Blueprint, AI GTM Teams, Talent vs. Talent Engineering & More
ANDRE RETTERATH
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JUN 26, 2026
Token Budgets for Investment Firms: What's the ROI? And Where's the Limit?
ANDRE RETTERATH
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JUN 23, 2026
💥Workflows Are King, Guide to Cold Emails, Seed Is Dying, VC Tourists Are Leaving, WTF Is a Loop? & More
ANDRE RETTERATH
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JUN 21, 2026
🔥 US-Iran Peace Deal, Anthropic Overtakes OpenAI, SpaceX Acquires Cursor - Here's the State of the Market in June 2026
ANDRE RETTERATH
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JUN 19, 2026
Compliance Is Where AI Co-Pilots Go To Die
ANDRE RETTERATH
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JUN 16, 2026
💥 Who Gets Paid First, State of DPI, Meeting Notes As True Moat, LLM-Assisted Deal Screening & More
ANDRE RETTERATH
33
JUN 14, 2026
🔥Building a Single Source of Truth for Investment Firms
ANDRE RETTERATH
34
JUN 12, 2026
✍️Takeaways from our DDVC x SuperReturn Breakfast + 5 Top Tools
ANDRE RETTERATH
35
JUN 10, 2026
💥Fund Performance Benchmarks, How Agent Loops Work, Portfolio Construction, Enterprise Software Playbook & More
ANDRE RETTERATH
36
JUN 5, 2026
🛠️Why Every Firm Should Create a Skill Library
ANDRE RETTERATH
37
JUN 2, 2026
💥 Mega-Funds Take Over Seed, Emerging Managers Rebound, Fee vs Carry, Hermes Agent Masterclass & More
ANDRE RETTERATH
38
MAY 28, 2026
Anthropic Released Claude Opus 4.8 Today
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MAY 26, 2026
💥The Right Fund Size, Should VCs Do Marketing?, State of GTM, Employee Onboarding With Claude & More
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MAY 24, 2026
🔥 SpaceX Files for the Largest IPO in History, AI Valuations Hit New Records, Ceasefire Still Unsigned - Here's the State of the Market in May 2026
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MAY 20, 2026
💥 What Matters at Seed, Are Systems of Record Dead?, Growing AI Task Horizons & More
ANDRE RETTERATH
42
MAY 17, 2026
🔥Network Is the New Data. Most Firms Don't Know Its Worth.
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43
MAY 3, 2026
🔥World's Hottest Startups in May 2026
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APR 26, 2026
🔥How to Predict Startup Success With Alternative Data
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APR 21, 2026
💥30 MCPs to Make Claude 100x More Powerful, Unicorn University Rankings, Why Seed Investing Is Broken & More
ANDRE RETTERATH
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APR 20, 2026
🔥 How Private Markets Partied Through Iran War - Here's the State of the Market in April 2026
ANDRE RETTERATH
47
APR 12, 2026
🔥"Who Else Is Investing" Isn't Lazy, But Actually Smart
ANDRE RETTERATH
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APR 8, 2026
💥University Ranking by Exit Values, How to Build a Personal Knowledge Hub, Auto-Discovery of What to Automate & More
ANDRE RETTERATH
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APR 5, 2026
🔥World's Hottest Startups in April 2026
ANDRE RETTERATH
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APR 3, 2026
Full Guide to Set Up OpenClaw and Automate VC Workflows
ANDRE RETTERATH
51
APR 1, 2026
💥How to Become a VC Partner, Importance of Sourcing vs Picking, Firm vs Fund Focus & More
ANDRE RETTERATH
52
MAR 29, 2026
We Need Your Help
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53
MAR 26, 2026
💥10 Takeaways from the DDVC Summit 2026
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54
MAR 24, 2026
💡Billion-Dollar Founder Patterns, Fund Return Analysis, Tech Hiring Surge & More
ANDRE RETTERATH
55
MAR 23, 2026
🔥 The Impact of Iran War on Private and Public Valuations - Here's the State of the Market in March 2026
ANDRE RETTERATH
56
MAR 19, 2026
We Ran the Benchmarks and Migrated to Harmonic
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MAR 17, 2026
💡Where LPs Invest, How VCs Generate Alpha, Hyped Funding Rounds and Success, Concentration in Private Markets & More
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