January Newsletter – Startup Club Edge

This newsletter from Startup Club features advice for aspiring entrepreneurs, including ten actionable steps to launch a business. It highlights the importance of overcoming fear, identifying viable ideas, and securing essential resources like a name and logo. The newsletter also recommends leveraging AI tools and joining an incubator for support. A list of twenty-five must-read books for entrepreneurs is provided, along with upcoming Clubhouse events discussing successful startup exits and building investor-ready businesses. Finally, the newsletter includes a “Time to Sell Index” suggesting that now is not a favorable time to sell a business.

The Exit Window Is Open. Most Founders Aren’t Ready.

Buyers are back. In July 2026 alone, venture-backed M&A cleared $9 billion and twelve companies went public above a billion-dollar valuation. Most founders will miss...

Second-Time Founders: Repeat Is the Hardest Word

Six weeks after the wire hits, most founders feel nothing at all. Not relief. Not triumph. Nothing. That's the part of the exit nobody warns...

How to Scale a Startup: What Actually Breaks

Most companies don't die from lack of demand. They die from getting it. How to scale a startup is really one question: what happens when...

Focus on Something You and Others Love: A Founder’s Framework for the AI Era

Adapted for an AI world from Chapter 4 of Colin C. Campbell’s Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat. In 1993, I made a decision that looked questionable...

Global Startup Funding Has a Passport Now

Founders built 43.6% of the world's new billion-dollar companies outside the United States this year. You don't have to move anymore. Global startup funding...

Record Startup Funding Is Not a Strategy

Venture capital just set a record, and almost none of it is coming to you. July 2026 delivered $65 billion in record startup funding. Double...