YBAWS! Growing Corporate Value and Marketability

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July 2026

You Do Not Control the Storm, but You Can Set Sail
Every business faces predictable crises, learn why corporate risk, not revenue, decides your value and how preparation turns shocks into opportunity.
 • Sean Cavanagh YBAWS!
Your Valuation Is a Beautiful Lie
In 2026, the headline number on your term sheet is theatre. Dirty term sheets, stacked liquidation preferences, and ratchets can make a $30M valuation…
 • Sean Cavanagh YBAWS!
The Shackleton Standard: Case Study
How Preparation Turned a Crisis Into a Windfall
 • Sean Cavanagh YBAWS!
Canada Will Pay You to Build
Canada quietly runs one of the most generous non dilutive funding systems on earth, and in 2026 it just got bigger. SR&ED now refunds 35 percent on the…
 • Sean Cavanagh YBAWS!
Stop Chasing the Round
For twelve posts we diagnosed why the big venture round has failed founders outside AI. Now the fix. The smartest founders in 2026 are not chasing one…
 • Sean Cavanagh YBAWS!
De Risking is Your Best Investment: Assessment
You do the math!
 • Sean Cavanagh YBAWS!
De Risking Is Your Best Investment
The Components You Actually Control
 • Sean Cavanagh YBAWS!
The Average Is Lying to You
US venture keeps posting record headlines. Behind them, one $10 billion AI deal was 48 percent of a single month, dragging the average deal to $47…
 • Sean Cavanagh YBAWS!
One Deal. One Million. One Country.
Subtitle: Canada’s growth capital did not slow down in early 2026. It essentially stopped. One growth deal, one million dollars, the lowest quarterly…
 • Sean Cavanagh YBAWS!
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