Iliya Valchanov

25 Startup Truths

Lessons from getting from $0 to $1M for the 3rd time

Nov 6 • 

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October 2025

On the Brink of $1M per Year

Investor Report Oct 25

Oct 27 • 

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June 2025

Through My Eyes: The Bridge V Recap

250 of the brighest Bulgarian tech entrepreneurs

Jun 16 • 

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March 2025

How to Fundraise from Silicon Valley

The must-read resources which led to our $4.5M Seed round from True Ventures

Mar 6 • 

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February 2025

Team-GPT Investor Report - Jan 25

Real investor report

Feb 10 • 

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January 2025

12 Bullets on OpenAI's Latest Updates: The 12 Days of Shipmas

Leading to the Christmas holidays, OpenAI made 12 big announcements

Jan 7 • 

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November 2024

How to raise $5M-$15M from Silicon Valley?

Learnings from a conversation with a VC from Sequoia Capital

Nov 26, 2024 • 

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January 2024

From 0 to 25K in 9 months: How we did it?

Here’s how we did it

Jan 29, 2024 • 

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November 2023

Honest Review of OpenAI DevDay

We lived to tell the story

Nov 20, 2023 • 

Iliya Valchanov

October 2023

From 0 to 10K users | Team-GPT

Getting Ready to Scale

Oct 5, 2023 • 

Iliya Valchanov

March 2021

Chess Coaching: How to Start Providing Online Chess Lessons

Spoke to 50+ chess coaches who shared their best practices

Mar 27, 2021 • 

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The Upside of Starting

Just me getting this blog started

Mar 5, 2021 • 

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