Mr Focus

Measuring Product Market Fit

I shared some content on Linkedin and Robert Lee asked me to clarify. So here you go;

Magic metrics indicating a startup probably has product/market fit:

Tips For a San Francisco Tech Trip

If you are visiting Silicon Valley with your tech company and it’s your first time, here are a few tips from me.

1. Front load meetings but leave room at the end for follow ups
2. Google ‘angelist’ plus your category to…

Mick in the Media

Here are a few articles where I was interviewed.

Stakeholder Updates

I’m a big fan on keeping your stakeholders (employees, investors, advisors, mentors) up to date as you grow out your tech…

How to get out of a startup rut?

Hopefully it doesn’t surprise you to hear that startups are hard. Actually, startups are easy if it’s just the ‘start’ part. The ‘up’ part is much harder. The making it work, the doing it over a period of time, the making a profit and the growing of it.

Startup Focus: The Book

A few years ago, the team at Pollenizer put together all our ideas, tools and wisdom into a book to help…

The Three Pitch Decks You Need

I find you need three pitch decks;

1. Teaser deck to email — 5–6 slides, very low on words, just enough to get a meeting.

2. Presented deck — 10–15 slides, low on words as you’re talking through it, enough to get a second…

Team? More like this please!

People make all the difference. People like these.