About Donive

Donive exists because most startup advice is garbage. It's written by people who've never built anything, optimized for clicks rather than insight, and designed to make you feel good rather than help you succeed.

We write essays for founders who want the truth, even when it's uncomfortable. We've watched hundreds of startups succeed and fail, and we share what we've learned without the survivorship bias that plagues most business content.

What We Cover

Failure analysis and post-mortems. The messy reality of finding product-market fit. Why most startups die at predictable stages. The psychology of building under uncertainty.

Who Writes This

Former founders, operators, and investors who've seen enough patterns to know what actually matters versus what sounds good on a podcast.