The Barbell Venture Market

Why founders are feeling both heat and chill in 2025

Sep 30 • 

Parul Singh

August 2025

Beyond the obvious

What are non-consensus bets in the AI era?

Aug 13 • 

Parul Singh

3

July 2025

How to think better (and faster) with AI

Why prompt literacy is a new founder superpower

Jul 28 • 

Parul Singh

4

The next billion-dollar startups will be invisible until Series B

The next billion-dollar startups won't look like billion-dollar startups — at least not at first.

Jul 22 • 

Parul Singh

8

Your AI cofounder is waiting

The $20K startup is here.

Jul 17 • 

Parul Singh

Falling in love with the problem

Why most AI tools don’t stick—and what to do about it

Jul 8 • 

Parul Singh

1

June 2025

The power of prompt chains

How to think deeper, faster—with AI as your co-strategist

Jun 23 • 

Parul Singh

2

What the top AI startups are doing differently

Execution lessons from the companies pulling ahead

Jun 16 • 

Parul Singh

4

The AI companies that will survive the burn

Why the most resilient startups are leading with smarter questions—and building for the long haul

Jun 9 • 

Parul Singh

1

The new engineering stack

What used to take five roles, now fits inside one engineer’s head.

Jun 3 • 

Parul Singh

3

May 2025

The judgment layer

AI raised the bar. Not on how much we can build—but on what’s worth building.

May 26 • 

Parul Singh

1

Taste is the new 10x

The bottleneck isn’t execution anymore. It’s judgment.

May 19 • 

Parul Singh

3