Rihs Ventures Library

Writing, playbooks, and field notes.

Practical thinking on building companies, finding distribution, and putting AI to work inside organizations. Original research, founder references, and ideas from the field.

Founders & startups GTM engineering Enterprise AI NYC ecosystem IRL distribution
Featured Resources

Ideas worth keeping.

Isometric illustration of a founder navigating a maze of meetings toward a focused workspace
Founder Playbook · Essay

How to manage your calendar as a founder.

Your schedule is your strategy. Three time leaks that quietly kill momentum, and the weekly audit that fixes them.

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Founder Playbook · Essay

How to manage your calendar as a founder.

Your schedule is your strategy. Three time leaks and a weekly audit that fixes them.

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Enterprise AI · Essay

The hottest role in enterprise AI is not another engineer.

AI strategists turn executive ambition into adopted workflows and measurable results.

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Founder Reference · PDF

Building an MVP with a contractor.

The minimum legal stack for protecting code ownership and keeping a contractor-built MVP diligence-ready.

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Original Research · Ecosystem Map

The NYC Startup Ecosystem Heatmap.

Where New York founders, operators, investors, technical talent, and real-world communities are concentrating.

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From the Notebook

What comes next.

Shorter field notes can test an idea before it becomes a definitive guide, map, or playbook.

GTM Engineering

GTM is becoming a technical function.

How data enrichment, automation, model-assisted research, and human judgment are changing early distribution.

IRL Distribution

The network is part of the product.

Why dinners, salons, and curated rooms can create trust and distribution that digital channels cannot reproduce.

Enterprise AI

From pilots to adopted workflows.

A practical framework for selecting valuable work, deploying responsibly, and building internal ownership.