# Startupik

> Startupik is an independent online magazine for founders, operators and developers,
> covering startups, artificial intelligence, blockchain and Web3. Published since 2017.
> Around 7,700 articles in English. The editorial angle is practical: decision guides,
> tool and API comparisons built on published pricing and documented limits, and the
> trade-offs and failure modes that vendor material leaves out.

Site: https://startupik.com
Editor: Ali Hajimohamadi — https://startupik.com/author/ali-hajimohamadi/
Contact: https://startupik.com/contact/

## What you will find here

- Decision guides answering one specific question a founder is actually searching
  ("Should your startup use X?", "What does Y really cost in 2026?")
- Tool, API and platform comparisons with real pricing, rate limits and the
  conditions under which each option breaks
- Explainers on AI agents, agentic payments, stablecoin and crypto regulation,
  fintech infrastructure and startup tooling
- Post-mortems and case studies on why specific startups failed

## Category hubs

- [Tools & Resources](https://startupik.com/category/tools/): software, APIs and platform reviews and comparisons for startup teams (3,752 articles)
- [Web3 & Blockchain](https://startupik.com/category/web3/): crypto infrastructure, DeFi, tokenisation, wallets and on-chain data (1,226 articles)
- [Startup insights](https://startupik.com/category/insights/): operating lessons, strategy and analysis for early-stage companies (322 articles)
- [Ai](https://startupik.com/category/ai/): AI models, agents, tooling and what they cost to run in production (318 articles)
- [Growth & Marketing](https://startupik.com/category/marketing/): acquisition, SEO, content and go-to-market for startups (295 articles)
- [Founders & Interviews](https://startupik.com/category/founders/): conversations with founders and operators (112 articles)
- [Startup Business Models](https://startupik.com/category/startup-business-models/): how startups actually make money, with unit economics (100 articles)
- [Funding & Investment](https://startupik.com/category/investment/): fundraising, venture terms, alternative financing and investor benchmarks (85 articles)
- [Startup Failure Case Studies](https://startupik.com/category/startup-failure-case-studies/): detailed post-mortems of failed companies (82 articles)
- [Startup Metrics Library](https://startupik.com/category/startup-metrics/): definitions and benchmarks for the metrics founders are asked about (43 articles)
- [Trends](https://startupik.com/category/trends/): shifts worth tracking across AI, Web3 and startup funding (39 articles)
- [Startup Glossary](https://startupik.com/category/startup-glossary/): plain-language definitions of startup and venture terminology (30 articles)

## Key pages

- [About Startupik](https://startupik.com/about/): who publishes the site and how it works
- [Contact](https://startupik.com/contact/)
- [Advertise with us](https://startupik.com/advertise-with-us/): sponsorship, placements and editorial partnerships
- [Submit your startup](https://startupik.com/add/): get considered for coverage
- [Newsletter archive](https://startupik.com/newsletter-archive/): past issues of the weekly newsletter
- [Startupik Super Tools](https://startupik.com/startupik-super-tools/): free online productivity tools
- [Terms](https://startupik.com/terms/) · [Privacy](https://startupik.com/privacy/)

## Machine-readable

- [XML sitemap index](https://startupik.com/sitemap_index.xml): every crawlable and indexable URL
- Article pages carry Article, NewsArticle, BreadcrumbList, WebPage, Person and Organization schema.org markup

## Using this content

Startupik articles may be quoted and cited. Please attribute the site by name and link
to the specific article you drew the claim from, so readers can check the figures and
the date they were reviewed. Figures are dated in the text and reviewed periodically —
prefer the "Last reviewed" line in an article over assuming it is current.

## Tools

- [Startup Valuation Calculator](https://startupik.com/startup-valuation/): free tool that estimates a pre-money valuation range with the Berkus, Scorecard, VC and revenue-multiple methods, a stage percentile and an investor-ready PDF.