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You’re Not Doing Customer Validation. Stop Calling It That.
Every founder has been told to “validate their idea with customers.” Every accelerator puts it in the curriculum. Every startup blog has a listicle about it. Nearly all of them are teaching you the wrong thing, framing it incorrectly, and i...
What Actually Builds an Entrepreneurial Community (And Why Your City Is Probably Getting It Wrong)
Your city’s startup ecosystem is probably an elaborate performance; there is a co-working space with exposed brick, there is a demo day with a banner, there is a grant attached to metrics no one is held accountable for, and somewhere in a m...
States, This Is a Startup Ecosystem Model That Works
I’m writing today, thinking not only is a Saturday a terrible day to post, but ‘what am I thinking, tomorrow is Father’s Day, no one is online!?‘ But I’m fixated on getting this published because I’ve now scoped it with a half dozen states...
Louisiana Just Did Something No Other State Has Had the Guts to Do: It Clarified “Entrepreneur”
Most states don’t have a startup strategy.
I know they think they do and you might even say they do, but what they really have a vocabulary and PR strategy to make it seem so. Press releases get stuffed with “entrepreneurship,” “innovation...
The Annoyance Economy Is a $165 Billion Market Opportunity. Why Is No One Building Into It?
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Full disclosure: this article is a little outside my usual lane. I write about startup ecosystems, capital markets, and why most economic development strategy is wrong. I do not typically wade into opportunity territ...
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