The Dealhalcyon blog is where our coaches write about the parts of running a startup that do not fit neatly into a course module — the awkward customer conversations, the pricing decisions that keep you up at night, and the fundraising groundwork that has to be done long before an investor ever sees a deck. No listicles, no recycled Twitter threads. Just hard-won notes from people who have actually built and sold businesses in Australia.
If you are new to the site, these two pieces give you a sense of how we teach and what we believe. Read them before you browse the rest.
Post length is deliberate — short enough to read with a coffee, detailed enough that you can put something to work the same day.
The single most expensive mistake early founders make is building anything at all before they have spoken to a single potential customer. Here is how we teach validation — the cheapest phase of your company's life, and the most informative.
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The deck is rarely what kills a deal. What kills a deal is a metric story that does not add up or a model that falls apart under the second question. Three weeks of groundwork decide whether your raise runs smoothly or stalls.
Read the full articleEvery article on this blog comes from somebody who has actually sat in the chair — building a product, hiring a first employee, or negotiating a term sheet that did not go the way they hoped. We do not outsource the writing, and we do not publish anything a coach would not say out loud in a live session.
If a post feels soft or vague, it does not get published. That is the standard we hold ourselves to, and it is why the blog updates fortnightly rather than daily.
Meet the coaching teamPosts fall into the same broad areas our courses cover. If a topic is not here yet, send us a suggestion and we will consider it for the next cycle.
Idea validation, customer interviews, offer design and the first ugly landing page that proves somebody will pay.
Metrics, models, SAFEs, term sheets and how to run an investor process without losing your mind or your equity.
Pricing, retention, repeatable sales and the decisions that separate a hobby from a business that actually compounds.
The parts nobody warns you about — burnout, co-founder friction, saying no to the wrong customer, and staying sane through the dip.
The blog is a good warm-up, but the real progress happens when you get direct feedback on your own business. That is what our two flagship programmes do — live coaching, weekly deliverables, and small cohorts where every founder is heard.
From a vague idea to a validated offer and your first paying customers in twelve weeks.
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From traction to term sheet in eight weeks, with a mock investor panel in the middle.
Learn moreIf your question is not here, send it through the contact form and we will answer it in the next post. Plenty of our best articles started as reader emails.
Send a questionYou are welcome to quote a couple of sentences with a link back to the original post. Full copies are not permitted. If you want to share something widely, drop us an email and we will almost always say yes in writing.
No drip sequences, no pitch funnels, no selling your address. Just a short note every other week when something new goes up, plus the occasional template we build for the courses.
The blog is a good warm-up, but the real progress happens with feedback on your own business. Take a look at our two flagship programmes and see which one fits where you are right now.