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Funding Your Startup: Capital Literacy and Action
Choose capital around the risk you need to remove next, from validating a hair-on-fire problem to proving a working prototype.
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Optimism Is Killing You: Founders Need a Professional Skeptic
Founders need encouragement and thoughtful disagreement. A strategic skeptic helps pressure-test assumptions before the market delivers an expensive lesson.
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Being Busy is Not the Same as Successfully Launching Startups
Being busy can consume a startup’s runway without creating progress. Focus on evidence, useful feedback, and work that reduces the greatest risk.
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Amazing Tech Founders Find Answers Faster
Great tech founders learn faster by questioning assumptions, listening to customers, running experiments, and drawing on mentors and their startup community.
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Coachability is a Competitive Advantage (And You’re Failing It)
Coachability shows in how founders respond to challenge. Prepare context, listen carefully, test feedback, and follow through with mentors, advisors, and investors.
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ADHD – The Entrepreneur’s Hidden Advantage…
A mentor’s perspective on ADHD and entrepreneurship, exploring potential strengths, challenges, and the support structures that can help founders.
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Developing Your Own Mentor Program in an Emerging Tech Hub
Build a structured mentoring program with clear expectations, thoughtful onboarding, consistent engagement, and a focus on founder growth.
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Creating Buzz vs. Building an Entrepreneurial Mindset Machine
Startup events can spark interest, while lasting founder development also needs mentoring, practical learning, trust, and consistent execution.
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Search in a Haystack – Find a Great Startup Mentor
Find startup mentors through experienced operators, community participation, focused requests, visible progress, and consistent follow-up.
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Most Advisors Aren’t Great Mentors
Understand how advisors support a startup’s business while mentors develop the founder, and explore the skills and boundaries of effective mentoring.
