Fun with Celebrity Dog Poop
As my faithful readers know (both of you), I’ve been working with my 12-year-old daughters on a dog poop bag carrying product called Wise Walker. Fantasizing about how great it would be to have a...
View ArticleWhy I’m Teaching My Daughters Entrepreneurship
Like any dad, I want to do everything I can to prepare my young daughters, Sarah and Annalise, for the lives that lie ahead of them. This includes teaching them right from wrong, how to stand up for...
View ArticleFun With Math — How My Daughters and I Are Making the World a Better Place
It’s not hard to find startups touting their mission to “change the world” by making it 4% easier to find a book you’ll love or reducing the time it takes to add inane content to the webs from 40...
View ArticleSpontaneous Youth Entrepreneurship
So far, 356 heroes have stepped up to get Project Wise Walker within striking distance of our crowd funding campaign on Kickstarter. By any measure, that’s amazing support and we couldn’t be more...
View ArticleStrap a Spreadsheet to Your Passion
(Originally appeared in GeekWire) I’ve met a lot of really bright engineers and entrepreneurs who I think could do great things if they pursued a big, interesting problem in a big, interesting market....
View ArticleWhy advising very early startups is irrational… and what to do about it.
Over the past decade I have had the honor to mentor and advise many, many dozens of startup companies and startup founders. Companies and founders are not the same thing. Besides the obvious...
View ArticleNo North Star? You can fix that.
In the GroundWork Workshops, the first, fundamental question I ask participants is, “what is the next strategic milestone you and your team need to hit in order to move the company forward in a...
View ArticleExpanding your luck surface area.
Reflecting on what I’ve learned over 20+ years founding, mentoring, advising and now investing in startups, the most essential lessons seem so simple. Talk to customers, early and often. Iterate. Hire...
View ArticleIndependence Day is Entrepreneurship Day
Independence Day is the closest thing we have to Entrepreneurship Day. I’m a geek about Independence Day and the Declaration of Independence. If you haven’t read the entire document, I encourage you...
View ArticleWhy I Do What I Do
I had a GroundWork mentoring session last week with a founder I’d never met before. For the first half, he was very engaged but was defensive and eager to explain why his startup idea was brilliant...
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