Ask Dr. Brown
Dr. Terrence BrownEvery week I cut through the noise where academic research meets real-world business. After 30 years researching ventures, building them, and teaching thousands of founders, I know what actually works. This is Ask Dr. Brown.
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Your First $100 Is Not the Proof Everyone Says It Is
Week 23
“Forget the investors. Get a paying customer.”
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You’ve heard this advice a hundred times, probably from someone who made money teaching...
Listening to Your Customers Can Make Your Product Worse
Here’s Week 22:
The Main Piece
A founder I know built every reasonable request that came in. A dashboard toggle here, an export format there, a permissions layer because one enterprise account asked for it. Eighteen months and forty fe...
If Your Test Can’t Prove You Wrong, It Isn’t an Experiment
Here’s Week 21:
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I keep hearing founders describe almost anything as an “experiment,” a launch. A campaign. A pricing change. An interview. If i...
You’re the reason your company can’t grow past you
Here’s Week 20:
I sat in on a board meeting not long ago where the founder, sharp, driven, a real business behind him, presented the exact same slide he’d shown eighteen months earlier. “Key person risk: mitigate by hiring a VP of Operatio...
Your Biggest Competitor Is the Status Quo
Here’s Week 19:
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A founder showed me his win-loss data last year. Every lost deal had the same note from the buyer: “We agree your product is be...
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Academics say I’m too practical. Gurus say I’m too rigorous. Good. Professor of Entrepreneurship @KTH. I write about what actually works — and why most of what you’ve heard is wrong.
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