Archive - Startup Riders

🌊 0 to $500K ARR in Months: Konvo AI’s Ecommerce Agent Blueprint | Guillem Oliva (Konvo AI)

How two founders went from kitchen-table MVP to 200 brands and 8% agent-led conversion — in under a year.

Jun 10 •

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May 2025

🌊 How AI agents turn buyer research into GTM execution | Clint Burgess (Founder at CharacterQuilt, ex-Bloomreach)

From 500 interviews to instant GTM — how AI persona agents are changing how founders go from research to execution.

May 13 •

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🌊 The New Rules of Raising — Intel from 22 AI Rounds, Redpoint’s Data, and $5B+ Playbooks

I looked at 22+ AI startups that raised Seed rounds across Europe last month. I did a fast breakdown of the data—and a few key trends stood out. The…

May 6 •

March 2025

February 2025

🌊 GTM Engineering: Building a Modern Sales Stack

Spent an hour with Fivos Aresti (Head of Growth at ColdIQ) to unpack the key lessons from scaling GTM with AI tools for early-stage startups. Here’s the…

Feb 12 •

January 2025

🌊 AI Agent Directories

AI Factories: The Race Is OnHyperscalers’ CapEx is set to hit $𝟮𝟰𝟰𝗕 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 - this is huge.What does this mean? It means scaling isn’t…

Jan 14 •

December 2024

🌊 GTM + AI (Part II): How Founders Are Rebuilding Sales in 2025

We flew my friend Sunny, Director of Strategy at Gong.io, over to Madrid for an in-person event to discuss the role of AI in sales.Turns out the sales…

Dec 8, 2024 •

November 2024

🌊 Agentic Revolution

We’re at the beginning of a new Industrial Revolution. But instead of generating electricity, we’re generating intelligence… [Open source] activated…

Nov 7, 2024 •

September 2024

🌊 Founder Compensation: The Line Between Grit and Self-Sabotage

Founders tend to be secretive about their salaries. I don’t really blame them. For one reason or another, this whole subject is shrouded in secrecy. But…

Sep 27, 2024 •

July 2024

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