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How I'm Pricing an AI Product
The real costs, uncomfortable margins and live experiments behind an AI pricing model.
 • Ben Yoskovitz
How Companies Quietly Lose Product-Market Fit Without Noticing
Plus a simple, precise diagnostic assessment for figuring out what went wrong
 • Brent Harrison
Lovable, Cowork, Claude Code... You're Asking the Wrong Question
The better question: what bottleneck am I trying to remove?
 • Ben Yoskovitz
Facing Failure as a Founder
I've been there. It sucks. But hiding your head in the sand is the opposite of what you should do.
 • Ben Yoskovitz
How I Ship Real Software with Claude Code (Without Being a Developer)
The rubric habit that stops the AI from faking "done," plus my setup, free on GitHub.
 • Ben Yoskovitz
Launching Candor: A Synthetic User Research Platform
AI user research helps kickstart validation for problems, concepts, solutions and price tests.
 • Ben Yoskovitz
Lean Analytics, Reconsidered
The frameworks survive. Many of the specific metrics need a rewrite, some don't apply at all, and new metrics are emerging quickly.
 • Ben Yoskovitz
40 Years Later: Remembering My Brother, Jacob Yoskovitz (May 14, 1977 - April 22, 1986)
A very personal story about my life. Feel free to skip if this isn't for you.
 • Ben Yoskovitz
Cannon Fodder: Pre-Seed Investing in the Age of AI
Signal vs. noise at the earliest stage: when there's more of both than ever, what should founders and investors do?
 • Ben Yoskovitz
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A biweekly newsletter on navigating the chaos of building & investing in startups. Topics include venture studios, entrepreneurship, product management, analytics and more, leveraging a combination of best practices & instincts.
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