We regularly share practical resources for startups
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Claude Code in 2026: a development agent that lives in your terminal, reads your entire codebase, writes, tests, commits, and opens PRs. Sonnet 4.6 / Opus 4.7 models, from $17/month. A complete guide with install, CLAUDE.md, Plan Mode, sub-agents, MCP, and a Cursor / Copilot / Codex comparison.
A 0.6% acceptance rate, the application form, a 40-question interview, the Delaware flip and visas: the complete playbook for French founders aiming at Y Combinator in 2026, with sourced insights from Algolia, PhotoRoom, Finary, Bitstack, Blaxel and Leadbay.
A winning pitch deck fits in 10 to 15 slides and leaves one impression: this is an opportunity, not a plea. The swanbase structure in 14 slides, 10 examples to break down, and 7 mistakes we see live in the Cold Shower.
The BIC Montpellier is a public incubator founded in 1987, ranked TOP 5 worldwide by UBI Global since 2014 and named to the Financial Times' 2026 European TOP 10. 170+ projects, 515 companies created, 4,400 jobs, 90% 3-year survival rate. Complete guide: 4 phases, application, cost, comparison.
