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Owen Blackwood

Owen Blackwood has watched enough launches to be interested in the boring part: what happens in month nine.

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Articles by Owen Blackwood

What a SAFE Actually Is, and How It Converts to Equity

What a SAFE Actually Is, and How It Converts to Equity

Owen Blackwood

The 83(b) Election Runs on a 30-Day Clock the IRS Will Not Reset

The 83(b) Election Runs on a 30-Day Clock the IRS Will Not Reset

Owen Blackwood

High-voltage transmission lines feeding a datacenter campus at dusk

Datacenter Energy: The Wall AI Startups Are Heading Toward

Owen Blackwood

What Is a SAFE? How Startup Convertible Equity Actually Works

What Is a SAFE? How Startup Convertible Equity Actually Works

Owen Blackwood

Founder packing personal belongings from an emptied office

Startup Shutdowns: What a Decade of Postmortems Keeps Repeating

Owen Blackwood

Infographic of stablecoin reserve and licensing requirements under the new law

After the GENIUS Act: Stablecoin Startups' New Rules

Owen Blackwood

Infographic comparing solo and team founding base rates

Solo Founders vs Co-Founders: What the Base Rates Say

Owen Blackwood

Humanoid robot arm working at a car factory assembly station

Robotics Funding Wave: Figure and the $39 Billion Re-Rating

Owen Blackwood

Startup team packing equipment as office winds down

Acquihires: How Talent Deals Get Priced and Who Gets Paid

Owen Blackwood

Developer community meetup with laptops in a university hall

Open Source in the AI Era: How Projects Now Get Funded

Owen Blackwood

Product manager stress-testing app architecture on a glass wall diagram

AI Wrapper or AI Native: A Five-Question Test for Startups

Owen Blackwood

Infographic timeline of AI Act compliance dates by risk tier

EU AI Act GPAI Obligations: What Startups Must Track

Owen Blackwood

Whiteboard with crossed-out product roadmap and a new direction arrow

Six Signals a Startup Should Pivot Before the Money Runs Out

Owen Blackwood

Close-up of publishing contracts stacked beside archive photo boxes

AI Licensing Deals: What Publishers Have Actually Signed

Owen Blackwood

Early-stage team presenting to a customer in a small meeting room

The First Ten Customers: A Design-Partner Playbook for B2B Startups

Owen Blackwood

Close-up of accelerator cards installed in a server rack chassis

GPU Supply and Cloud Costs: The Constraint on AI Startups

Owen Blackwood

Close-up of prototype device casings and a machining tool on a workbench

OpenAI Buys io for $6.5 Billion: What the Jony Ive Deal Buys

Owen Blackwood

Infographic comparing open-weights and closed-model trajectories over time

Open Weights vs Closed Models: The Debate in Numbers

Owen Blackwood

Founder reviewing financial dashboard on a laptop late at office

Burn Rate: The Number That Decides Whether a Startup Lives

Owen Blackwood

Server room operations scene with status lights indicating workflow pipelines

AI Agents: The Startup Market After the Demo Wave

Owen Blackwood

Close-up of a shareholder agreement page with an ownership pie chart

Meta's $14.3 Billion Scale AI Deal: How a 49 Percent Stake Works

Owen Blackwood

Diagram of OpenAI's new corporate structure with the foundation atop the PBC

OpenAI's PBC Restructuring: What Changed and Who Controls It

Owen Blackwood

Two founders mapping funding stages on a whiteboard in a small office

Pre-Seed vs Seed: What Each Round Actually Pays For

Owen Blackwood