How To Save Your Scaleup: Applying timeless scaleup principles to a brand new world.
A little over a week ago, I released Scouut's Mid-2026 Startup & Scaleup Market Memo. If you
The Unsigned Team: How the best startups hire 90% of their people without weeks of searching.
The vast majority of startups treat hiring like a tap that should be turned on and off. Whenever a hire
Paying for Outliers: How the best startups think about compensation and employee value to secure outlier talent.
The idea that salaries or employee compensation is a 'special' kind of spend - one that has to be
Team Debt: The biggest trap facing startups today, and how to reduce the risk of it accumulating.
The concept of technical debt is familiar to most founders. In an AI world, it's also becoming less
AI-Native Confusion: What it actually means to be AI-native, and why most startups and scaleups are far from it.
Many of the founders I meet claim to be building AI-native companies. Few actually are.
They've integrated
