Scott Swaaley on his Entrepreneurial Journey at MakeSafe
Scott Swaaley of MakeSafe shares details of his entrepreneurial journey in two videos jointly produced with Altium.
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Startup Stages
Next Customer Discovery Bootcamp Starts in January 2024
We are offering a new round of our popular “Customer Discovery Bootcamp” session starting in January of 2024
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Faith Emittee on “Working Capital: Assembling Your Team”
A guest post by Faith Emittee that summarizes key insights from the cofounder chapter in “Working Capital: Assembling Your Team.” It originally appeared on Sparkyard as “Why You Should Consider Partnering with a Cofounder.” Reprinted with permission.
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Frank Tisellano: “Business First” Product Management
Frank Tisellano gave a briefing on his “Cynical PM Framework” at Lean Culture, advocating for a “business first” approach to product management.
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Key Takeaways From Two Survival to Thrival Books
The two “Survival to Thrival” books “Building the Enterprise Startup” and “Change or Be Changed” offers insights for bootstrappers navigating the path from founding to scaling.
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How Founders Should Should Manage Startup Runway
Using 14 Ways B2B Entrepreneurs Can Extend Their Startup Runway to Go the Distance as a point of departure, Etienne Garbugli and Sean Murphy offer practical advice to entrepreneurs on how to manage startup runway.
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Jorge Zavala: Build Products and Services from Your Experience
Learn how to transform your life, create wealth, and enjoy delivering solutions to a broad market. It has never been easier to be a Solopreneur handling yourself your own business.
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Finding Co-Founders: Recruiting Like-Minded Individuals for Startup Success
When recruiting people for your startup, finding finding co-founders who share your goals and vision is important. The alignment between co-founders is crucial for success, as it helps avoid potential problems that can derail the company.
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How Do I Find Clients For My Consulting Business?
Whether you are just getting started or have done consulting for many years, the best way to find new clients is through referrals. If you have been in business for many years, satisfied customers are a great source of referrals. However, if you are a new consultant, you may have yet to satisfy customers but
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Entrepreneurship’s Ups and Downs
Michael Risich – Entrepreneur turned technologist, turned technology founder with an exciting journey building a SaaS business scaling to 10M in ARR with an exit to a PE firm!
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Six Activities for Learning New Skills and Tools
Real life often presents entrepreneurs with a new problem or opportunity, so they find themselves learning new skills and tools on the fly.
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Clear in Hindsight: April 2022 ended a Minsky boom for startups
A Minsky boom is a period of economic growth characterized by increasing instability and speculation, ending in startup funding constricting.
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What To Do Before You Find a Cofounder
Harsh Darji shares some of his drawings and his process of visual thinking. See how visual thinking can help you innovate your business.
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Holly Hester-Reilly: Lean Product Principles in B2B
Holly Hester-Reilly offers a briefing on how to apply continuous product discovery and lean product principles in a B2B environment.
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Chalk Talk: How Buildings Learn
A chalk talk on Stewart Brand’s model for how six layers in a building change at different rates from his book “How Buildings Learn.”
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Mike Krupit on Network Density and Fluidity
In the video below, Mike Krupit, founder of Trajectify, shares some interesting insights on density and fluidity your network. Mike Krupit on Network Density and Fluidity An edited transcript for readers: Mike Krupit on the importance of your network The other thing I will say is having a network. When we’re starting a business, we’re
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Kristin Zhivago: How to put yourself in your customers shoes
Video and transcript from the “How to put yourself in your customers shoes” briefing by Kristin Zhivago at the March 2022 Lean Culture meetup. She highlights the importance of putting yourself in your customers’ shoes in order to develop a more effective marketing strategy and ultimately drive revenue growth.
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Peer Advice and Support for Startup Founders
Entrepreneurs benefit from peer advice that provides knowledgeable perspectives, highlights blind spots, and lifts them out of ruts.
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Land and EXPAND – Recession-proof your Sales and Expand your Bottom Line
Land and EXPAND the fasting path to expand your bottom line. A key area where many companies don’t focus as much as they should – is expansion within their existing customers
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Mark Brinkerhoff: Starting With a Sketch Saves Money
A great short briefing by Mark Brinkerhoff, President of Fusion Design on how starting with a sketch saves money; he uses a simple HVAC design example but the technique is broadly applicable.
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