VC vs Business Angel: How to Choose in France (2026)
Check sizes, dilution, support, cap table: the decision tree for choosing between a business angel, a VC, or a mix in France in 2026.
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Vibe coding: agency, freelancer, CTO or solo? How to choose (2026)
Prices, decision framework, red flags: when to use a vibe coding agency in 2026, and when to vibe code it yourself or hire a dev.
10 Vibe Coding Mistakes (and How to Get Out If You're Already Stuck)
Security, technical debt, broken dependencies: the 10 vibe coding mistakes ranked by severity, with the checklist to rescue a project that's already drifted.
Vibe coding MVP: a non-technical founder ships in 4 weeks (2026)
A complete walkthrough for vibe coding your MVP in 4 weeks: scope, tools, real budget (€200-800) and mistakes to avoid, by swanbase.
Things That Don't Scale: the practical guide to doing things that don't scale
A practical guide to Things That Don't Scale (Paul Graham, July 2013). 5 canonical tactics, 15 documented YC cases (Airbnb, Stripe, DoorDash, Pebble), how to apply it in 2026, and Brian Chesky's rule for knowing when to stop.
How to find your first 10 customers (the business-model method)
Your first 10 startup customers: a go-to-market method segmented by business model (B2B SaaS, B2C, marketplace, vertical SaaS, hardware, services), with French examples from Doctolib, Qonto, Vinted, Lydia, and Ledger.
Founder-Led Content: Why You Should Publish BEFORE Raising (and How, Across 3 Platforms)
LinkedIn, X, TikTok: the founder-led content strategy with concrete French examples, a 5-minutes-a-day system, and 4 tested hooks for early-stage founders.
Early-Stage Startup Pricing: 4 Methods (and the Test to Know If You're Underselling)
Cost-plus, value-based, tier-based, usage-based: 4 early-stage pricing methods, the pricing power test, and 6 French SaaS pricing pages to calibrate your first price.
Marketing AI agents: how fog, the open source stack built by swanbase, works
fog is the open source marketing AI agent stack swanbase built for early-stage founders. Five agents, the AGENT.md format, portable across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI and Gemini CLI. Apache 2.0.
