Insights
Notes from the studio.
Playbooks, engineering tradeoffs, and emerging-market venture economics. Written by the people doing the building.
Markets
Qatar startup ecosystem 2026: funding, accelerators, and where the gaps are
Who's actually funding startups in Qatar right now, which sectors get backed, which don't, and where a founder building here still has to work harder than the pitch decks suggest.
Markets
Building fintech in the GCC: what we learned in Doha
Regulatory sandboxes, payment rails, and the compliance timeline that catches most first-time fintech founders in Qatar - from a product we shipped there.
Markets
Tashkent is the next Krakow
Why Uzbekistan's tech scene is following the same trajectory Poland's did twenty years ago, what actually made Krakow work, and where the comparison honestly breaks down.
Markets
Hiring developers in Uzbekistan: rates, quality, and what to check
What developers in Tashkent actually cost by seniority, where the language and timezone friction really shows up, and a five-point checklist before you commit.
Founder playbook
Seven questions to ask a development partner before you sign
The questions that separate a real technical partner from a good pitch, what a strong answer sounds like, and the specific red flags each question is designed to catch.
Equity
How much equity should you give a development partner?
Realistic ranges, what the number actually depends on, how it looks on your cap table two rounds later, the terms worth refusing, and why vesting matters more than the percentage.
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