We just dropped the next post in our Navigating Diligence series: 🧮 The D Financial Model Designed for pre-seed and seed founders — no finance lead required, cash-based (not GAAP), and simple enough to build yourself. 👉 blog.blingcap.com/financial-…

In the post we cover: ✅ Why even pre-seed founders need a model (clarity > precision) ✅ Why gross profit, not revenue, reduces burn ✅ Why founders should “earn the right to burn” (once proven PMF) ✅ Common mistakes quick fixes

We just dropped the next post in our Navigating Diligence series: Market Sizing in 30 Minutes We take the outputs from the previous exercise, Customer Segmentation, and plug them into a simple, bottoms-up “mad-libs” for TAM: 📘 blog.blingcap.com/market-siz…

Our simple market sizing “mad-libs”: To get to $100M in gross profit per year, we need X customers paying $Y/year, where X = K% of the market. There are (X / K%) such customers in the US. Primary segmentation traits are A, B, C. Our customers have A, B, C.

We just published the next post in our Navigating Diligence series: Segmenting Your Customers for Market Sizing Segmentation helps you and your investors understand your business and its potential — i.e., path to $100M in gross profit blog.blingcap.com/customer-s… 🧵 What's inside

We cover how to: ✅ Build a MECE segmentation framework ✅ Define objective characteristics anchor segments with real customers ✅ Identify pricing, margin, and GTM strategy per segment ✅ Avoid common mistakes ✅ Use segmentation as the input to bottoms-up market sizing

We just dropped the next post in our Navigating Diligence series: Nail the 'Hair-on-Fire Problem' 10x Better Solution This is the first (and, we think, most important) exercise in our diligence playbook. 📘 blog.blingcap.com/hair-on-fi… 🧵 What’s inside:

We also cover: ✅ How to write current future user flows as “instruction manuals” ✅ What a real 10x improvement looks like ✅ Common mistakes (and how to fix them)

Many founders think diligence starts after the term sheet. In reality, it begins the moment a VC leans in. We just launched the Bling Capital Playbook: Navigating Diligence — a monthly series of cheat-sheet guides for founders. First post 👉: blog.blingcap.com/navigating… 🧵

Takeaways: ✅ Diligence helps investors understand what it’s like to work with a team ✅ It aligns founders and investors around a believable post-investment plan ✅ It’s also how founders evaluate if a VC is the right partner 📅 New posts drop monthly.