Scaling Deep Tech

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Hire Your First 3 Engineers at a Deep Tech Startup (pre-seed)
The roles that actually matter when you have no time and no money
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Ilir Aliu
Product-Market Fit in B2B Deep Tech (Robotics & AI)
At Seed and Series A
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Ilir Aliu
How Mistral AI Used a Community-Driven Model to Compete with Closed-Source Giants.
The Open-Source Case Study
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Ilir Aliu
VC Metrics for Robotics and AI Startups
Market Overview and Funding Landscape
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Ilir Aliu
The Data Room Investors Say Yes To
[Checklist and Examples]
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Ilir Aliu
How Agility Robotics Convinced Amazon to Deploy Digit in a Live Warehouse.
Pilot to Production at Scale
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Ilir Aliu
The Pilot Project Playbook: How to Win, Run, and Convert POCs
Robotics & AI: From POC to Production Scale
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Ilir Aliu
The $675M Pre-Product Playbook: How Figure AI Built a Narrative So Compelling It Drew Investments from OpenAI and Jeff Bezos
Inside the fundraising strategy that turned a humanoid robotics startup into a $2.6B company before product launch.
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Ilir Aliu
SAFE Notes and Cap Tables for Robotics Founders
The Ownership Survival Guide
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Ilir Aliu

September 2025

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