Building Blocks of Confidence

The most successful startups and individuals are still filled with failures along the way. As a founder…

Hey Mike, I want to start an incubator!

Hey Mike, I want to start an incubator!

Rarely has the person saying it actually thought it through. Running an incubator can be super rewarding and fascinating, but it can also be incredibly challenging and isn’t right for everyone.

X MARKS THE SPOT

When you’re bright eyed in the early days, the belief that your startup will be good at everything can be tempting. However, when…

Primal Instincts

For a company to be successful, the concept or product needs to appeal to consumers on a minimum of three primal desires: pride…

Short Sighted, Short Lived

When you’re first starting up a company, you’re often in day-to-day survival mode. You’re thinking through the…

The Sacrifice of Time Spent Elsewhere

There are 7 billion people in the world. You won’t be the first or the last to have your…

Get to the Core

When a book has thousands of pages but only a couple of great ideas covered in a few chapters, the reader gets frustrated. If the author removed the fluff and published a shorter book instead, the reader could go from having a frustrating experience to a great one. With startups, you have to remove…

Don’t Forget The Engine

A Tesla might be a stylish and stunning car, but it’s useless if the engine doesn’t work. For a startup, the core…

Bridge of Profitability

Each idea needs to hit a certain scale to be profitable. Depending on overhead and profit margins, some ideas are…

The Path to the Long Game

Successful companies operate on three retention levels: the short, medium and long game. This allows a platform to…