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Traditional VC optimizes for power-law returns: a few big winners, many casualties. That’s why founders are pushed to “swing for the fences.” To go all in on big, risky, bets. Growth-at-all-costs is the name of the game. To VCs, founders are just a line item in a portfolio. They will often fund you and your direct competitors, to diversify risk. Simply hoping that one of you survives.

For builders who care about staying in the game, building something sustainable, and creating real change, that tradeoff quietly sucks the life out of the work.

The Launch Lab is capital for a different game. It backs operators who want to build sane, resilient companies—businesses that make money, serve real people, and give the founder more options over time, not fewer.

Decisions are fast, and it’s not just a check. You get experienced operators on your side, along with battle-tested tools and playbooks. The Launch Lab is the Anti-VC. The goal isn’t to turn you into a lottery ticket. It’s to help you build something real, meaningful, and built to last.

In modern real estate, visibility beats expertise. You can be the agent other agents call for help—the one who understands the contracts, the neighborhoods, the nuance—yet still lose listings to rookies who are louder online. The result is the Invisible Expert problem: the best agents for the job are the least visible in feeds, search results, and AI recommendations that shape client decisions long before they reach out.

First Call Agent fixes that imbalance. It acts like a quiet, always-on marketing department, turning your market insight and day-to-day wins into a steady stream of content, visibility, and AI-friendly signals that all point back to you.

It learns your voice, amplifies your local intelligence, and makes you show up everywhere your clients look—without turning you into a full-time content creator. The goal isn’t to turn you into an influencer. It’s to make sure the expert is the one the market finds first—and remembers.

To change the physical world, you must be able to build in it. For too long, serious builders have hit the same wall. Hobby CNCs are cheap but flimsy, and “close enough” becomes the ceiling. Industrial machines solve those problems, but the price tag, footprint, and learning curve make them inaccessible. If you’re a small shop, a product developer, or a weekend tinkerer with real ambitions, you end up stuck between toys and a second mortgage.

The CNC Pro V3 is built for the space in between. It’s a professional-grade, open-source CNC that is affordable, adaptable, easy to use, and is capable of doing serious work.

The plans, parts list, and support give you a clear path from “I’ve always wanted to make this” to “I’m holding it in my hands.”—whether that’s a one-off part, a small batch of product, or the first run of a new business.

The point isn’t the machine. It’s having a reliable way to pull ideas out of your head and into the world, without needing to take out a second mortgage.

For most founders, a big exit is both a once-in-a-lifetime win and a once-in-a-lifetime tax bill. The Qualified Small Business Stock exclusion is one of the few tools that can legally wipe out a huge chunk of that tax, potentially saving you millions when you sell your company. But the rules are dense, time-sensitive, and easy to break without even realizing it.

QSBS Ninjas removes that uncertainty and the grind that usually comes with QSBS compliance. We’re not a law firm. QSBS compliance is all we do.

Instead of getting milked for every billable hour by a legal team that drags you through endless calls and redlined memos, you move through a fast, flat-fee process. You answer a few questions about your company and provide a few documents. We map your situation, and tell you where you stand. That’s it.

The end result is you put more cash in your pocket when you sell your business, without the headaches, uncertainty, and expense of dealing with a traditional law firm.