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✦ Week 32 Reading ✦

Startup Horoscope

Your company's founding month determines its startup zodiac sign — from The Bootstrapper to The Zombie Unicorn. Find your sign below for this week's reading, or tap through for the full mystical profile. New reading every Monday. Purely for entertainment; please don't raise or not raise a round based on this.

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The Bootstrapper
✦ Founded in January

Self-funded, allergic to term sheets, secretly proud of the ramen diet.

✦ This week's reading

A friend will raise a $40M seed round for something you built in a weekend. Let it go.

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The Pivot Artist
✦ Founded in February

Third business model this year. First one that's actually working.

✦ This week's reading

An investor asks “so what do you actually do now?” Have a one-liner ready. You'll need it twice this week.

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The Hype Beast
✦ Founded in March

Incredible narrative, TBD fundamentals, unreasonably good at demo day.

✦ This week's reading

You'll get asked for “real numbers” in a board meeting. Consider this a professional foul, not a red card.

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The Builder
✦ Founded in April

Heads-down, ships relentlessly, forgets to tell anyone.

✦ This week's reading

Your changelog is a masterpiece nobody reads. Read it to yourself sometimes.

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The Networker
✦ Founded in May

Raises entirely on vibes, warm intros, and a truly excellent LinkedIn game.

✦ This week's reading

A warm intro leads to a term sheet before your product has a pricing page. Ride the wave.

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The Moonshot
✦ Founded in June

Swings enormous, burns fast, occasionally actually lands on the moon.

✦ This week's reading

A skeptic calls your roadmap “science fiction.” Correct: it's science fiction with a Series B.

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The Bridge Round Baby
✦ Founded in July

Always “closing soon.” Has been closing soon since March.

✦ This week's reading

Your SAFE cap has been renegotiated twice. The number keeps getting more honest.

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The Quiet Compounder
✦ Founded in August

Boring, profitable, blissfully ignored by TechCrunch, laughing all the way to the exit.

✦ This week's reading

Someone forwards you a hype-cycle darling's down-round news. You say nothing. You feel something.

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The Serial Founder
✦ Founded in September

Third startup. Learned everything the hard way twice already.

✦ This week's reading

This time, you actually read the term sheet before signing. Character development.

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The Down-Round Phoenix
✦ Founded in October

Rose from re-priced ashes. Still standing. Still fundable, somehow.

✦ This week's reading

You'll say “right-sized the valuation” in a board meeting with a completely straight face.

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The Category King
✦ Founded in November

Defined the market. Everyone else is just describing your product with different words.

✦ This week's reading

A rival gets acquired for a headline number that's still smaller than your last round. Stay humble. Or don't.

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The Zombie Unicorn
✦ Founded in December

Still “a unicorn” on paper. Spiritually, deeply tired.

✦ This week's reading

This week's board deck uses the phrase “path to profitability” for the ninth consecutive quarter.

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