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Turning down YC to find the right idea. Not because they didn't want it. But because they weren’t willing to waste the opportunity. Here's the untold story of how Dhruva and Hemang are building FlowGen Labs to create the first generation of zero-touch enterprises: 🔹 Meeting in 4th grade in Mumbai, losing touch, and reuniting as Georgia Tech roommates years later 🔹 Hemang working on post-training at Meta, Dhruva as a Founding ML Engineer at Refuel AI, until an acquisition forced a decision 🔹 Choosing their idea by scoring each one like engineers would 🔹 Getting offers from both YC and SPC, and turning them both down 🔹 Betting on one of the most entrenched markets in enterprise software: legacy ERPs like SAP 🔹 Losing a major proof-of-concept deal and what got them back up 🔹 Closing a seed round within two weeks of demo day 👉 Full story here: https://lnkd.in/eG7JEPpa

It's tax day! 2025 was our first full calendar year building Mosaic. Tax season is a weird milestone no one talks about. You open the forms and see “Mosaic AI Labs Inc” and it hits you. This thing that started as an idea… is now real enough to be taxed. Real revenue. Real expenses. Real taxes. There’s something kind of insane (and honestly cool) about that. We built something that exists in the eyes of the world now. Tax day isn't glamorous. No launch posts. No "today we're announcing...". But it still somehow feels like a milestone. Time to go file my personal ones now 😅 ---- Thanks to Andy Wang and the team at Finta for making tax season seamless for Mosaic (not sponsored, just a genuinely satisfied customer)

What do startup founders use for payroll? We ran some numbers... We found that: 1️⃣ Rippling and Gusto are still the top choice for startups 2️⃣ Newer providers like Central and Warp have grown to a combined 32% of startups in just two years Let me know if you want to see data on another part of the tech stack!

Fundraising is hard. You need momentum. First few checks really matter. But who typically writes the first few checks? We ran some numbers... This one took us a long time to compile, hope it helps! How often these investors appear in first 5 checks: 1. Y Combinator 2. Soma Capital 3. SV Angel 4. Pioneer Fund 5. Neo 6. Hustle Fund 7. Pear VC 8. Afore Capital 9. BoxGroup 10. First Round Capital Let me know if you want to see same list for angel investors.

This is data we've only shared with select YC founders... Is YC Demo Day funding correlated with revenue? Let me know if you're interested in more analysis on this!

Founders: Does anyone here have experience using Finta for both tax filings and accounting? I’d really appreciate any feedback to help me decide whether to work with them.