Market Sizing

If you are a CEO, you probably have a pitch deck slide with a single giant number with the words, “market size” near it. For me, these…

Startup Studio vs. Accelerator

Startup Studio Expectations: Entrepreneurs

Expectations: Investors

Not surprisingly, investors have a lot of questions about the studio model. If you’ve read any of my prior posts…

Problem Solution Alignment

I’m often asked when I know that I’ve found “product-market fit”. The answer is simple — I don’t. If anyone…

Boulder Bits: A New Spin On Starting Up

I’ve often said that startups are like snowflakes; they’re all made of the same…

Expectations: Mentors

I love being a mentor. Endless advising is what I miss most about leaving my professorship at Stanford. Mentors can make…

Startup Adoption vs. Invention

There is a myth in the startup community that, “a startup’s core idea must originate with the founding…

The Three Headed Monster

A smoothly running startup is like a dune buggy — not what you were expecting from the title was it? Dune buggies…

What is a Startup Studio?

I learned some painful lessons from my first startup’s failure. After a lot of introspection, research and…