Your Window to a Higher Valuation
2025 fundraising is over. VCs are in "holiday mode." Calendars are closed.
While your competitors are relaxing, you still have some time to fix the systemic execution risk that VCs will use to cut your valuation next year. The market for 2026 demands sustainable growth with clear path to profitability and high quality governance. They aren't just betting on your vision; they're underwriting your processes.
If you're raising money in 2026, you have to pivot from founder heroics to repeatable systems.
The chaos you live with daily is exactly what investors fear. Here are the three non-negotiable areas you have to repair before the due diligence clock starts:
1. Theme: System Structure and Governance (The Architecture)
These articles define and build the operational backbone that eliminates founder bottlenecks and achieves predictability.
2. Theme: Hiring and People Ops Hygiene (The Capacity)
These articles address the operational design flaws that cause high early attrition and costly "false positive" hires, protecting your precious runway.
3. Theme: Strategy, Metrics, and Investor Signal (The Proof)
These articles connect internal operational discipline directly to external investor perception and measurable business value.
The clock is ticking. I’ve spent years running the operations behind executives and startup so NOTHING slipped through the cracks. If you want to fix this before 2026 calendars open, shoot me a DM. I help founders turn chaos into predictable, fundable operations.
Article List
Structure Over Software: Lessons from Building a New Team https://bit.ly/44wxPjo
Where Do We Start? Lessons from UPS and Delta https://bit.ly/4rZR6DW
Startups Can’t Hire Their Way Out of Chaos https://bit.ly/48Ez1nh
The Day-1 Quit Is an Operational Failure, Not a Hiring One https://bit.ly/4q50qEG
The Hiring Playbook for Startups https://bit.ly/3Kza5EF
Onboarding That Protects Your Runway https://bit.ly/450bKK8
Operational Maturity Is Your Hidden Fundraising Signal https://bit.ly/3KKlDVB
Operational Discipline That Makes Investors Write Checks https://bit.ly/4qh9WF3
Investors Are Watching Your Ops—Here’s What They’ll Really Check in 2026 https://bit.ly/3KBCDxf
How Structure Increases Execution Speed, Reduces Risk, and Raises Valuation https://bit.ly/4s6jioP
A Framework for Removing Yourself as the Bottleneck https://bit.ly/48TncZd
Your Peak Season Is an Operational Stress Test https://bit.ly/3XX9PSL