One exercise we find very useful for entrepreneurs is to have them tell their startup origin story. You can then use it to build a team and to find prospects who may become customers.
Startup Origin Story: Why Did You Start Your Business? Read More »
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.
Jorge Zavala: Build Products and Services from Your Experience Read More »
One facilitation strategy we use for more thoughtful discussions and encourages greater participation and collaboration.
Enhance Collaboration With Think-Write-Pair-Share Read More »
Timing plays a significant role in the success of startups. It’s about recognizing the right moment to launch a product or service that aligns with emerging trends, consumer demand, and market conditions.
Paul Orlando – How to Quantify if a Market is Ripe for Your Product Read More »
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.
Finding Co-Founders: Recruiting Like-Minded Individuals for Startup Success Read More »
Ihor Bauman shares tips for building a portfolio and generating initial sales – crucial steps in validating and launching your business.
From Consulting to Entrepreneurship: How to Successfully Make the Transition Read More »
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!
Entrepreneurship’s Ups and Downs Read More »
Charlene Deaver-Vazquez presents a new conceptual tool that allows for easy steering to problem areas and rapid decisions without losing sight of the important stuff.
Managing the Risk and Uncertainty in Business Decisions with Charlene Deaver-Vazquez Read More »
Mark Tweddle and I discuss the implications of imposter syndrome, notably when feelings of inadequacy might spur you to improve.
A Conversation with Mark Tweddle on Imposter Syndrome Read More »
Every year we design experiments – new things we try. Our 2023 experiment was doing short 2 minute videos – chalk talks. Below is a roundup of some of our favorites.
2023 – This year’s experiment Read More »
Moe Arnaiz is an outstanding entrepreneurial CEO; he shares two founder stories: the successful sale of eMOBUS and how going through that process helped him navigate his new venture, Weeldi. As a serial entrepreneur, he has shown the ability to take his awareness of industry direction and craft it into a business vision.
Moe Arnaiz: Lessons Learned Bootstrapping eMOBUS and Weeldi Read More »
A simple but very useful model we like for the customer buying process is “Understand, Believe, Act.” This post explains what it is and how to apply it.
Customer Buying Process: Understand, Believe, Act Read More »
A Minsky boom is a period of economic growth characterized by increasing instability and speculation, ending in startup funding constricting.
Clear in Hindsight: April 2022 ended a Minsky boom for startups Read More »
Harsh Darji shares some of his drawings and his process of visual thinking. See how visual thinking can help you innovate your business.
Harsh Darji on How to Innovate Using Visual Thinking Read More »
This is for startup founders. You have a lot on your plate and events and interruptions make it even more interesting.
Triage for Managing Interrupts Read More »
We use a four phase project planning model we call 1-2-4-1 which allocates time to planning, prototyping key challenges, finishing the bulk of the work, and polishing.
Chalk Talk 1-2-4-1 Read More »
Holly Hester-Reilly offers a briefing on how to apply continuous product discovery and lean product principles in a B2B environment.
Holly Hester-Reilly: Lean Product Principles in B2B Read More »
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.”
Chalk Talk: How Buildings Learn Read More »
Where is your team in the explore exploit continuum? Are you in explore or exploit mode? If you are operating in a new area with high uncertainty then explore mode is the best posture. As you gain clarity you will typically transition to exploit mode.
Chalk Talk: Where is your team in the explore exploit continuum? Read More »
Video and an edited transcript from the “Make Something that People Want”” briefing by John Nash at the Aug-24-2022 Lean Culture meetup.
John Nash on “Make Something that People Want” Read More »
