24 Steps to a Successful Startup

It was a year that tested us and made us stronger in the end. With that perspective, what were our favorite articles of this past year on this web site? Each of us probably has our different favorites because of our individual perspectives and interests but it is interesting to see what the top ten were from the consolidated “voting”: ...

An in-depth overview of these methodologies reveals a hidden truth: none of them is universally valid. There is no single Startup Bible that guarantees redemption from uncertainty and the perilous journey of a new venture. Each of them focuses on very different aspects of a startup and the key lies in how to use them TOGETHER. Let the practitioners argue about which is best, and let us reap the benefits of smartly combining them for our purposes.

Berlin is a city that has always intrigued me. When I graduated from college and had just played a season of pro basketball (don’t be fooled, the pay was not great but I did get paid to play basketball so I am not complaining) in England, I headed to the European continent to explore. I had never been so far from home before. As I hitch hiked across Europe, I headed to Berlin which was then behind the Iron Curtin, meaning in was in the middle of communist Eastern Germany. That experience blew…

We say the delta v experience is like eating broccoli. Maybe students founders don't like broccoli; perhaps they are not sure. But, as we work through the program, they will learn how to steam broccoli and roast it and sauté it and puree it. They'll know all of the ins-and-outs of broccoli – and come up with a winning recipe.

Last week, I had the opportunity to give a keynote talk at the Open Innovations virtual forum in Skolkovo. My friend & DE coach Marius Ursache also talked about using DE in deep tech.

I’ve been a huge fan of Bill Aulet’s Disciplined Entrepreneurship since I was first introduced to his process by Cathy Pucher, Executive Director of the Zahn Innovation Center at San Diego State University nearly five years ago now. I subsequently adopted it as the base framework for our postgraduate entrepreneurship education programs in TechInnovation and AgInnovation at the National University of Ireland Galway, in a small but fast-growing city called Galway on the Wild Atlantic Way of…

In the five years since DE Toolbox launched, more than 20,000 founders, students, educators, accelerators, and mentors have used it with their teams or companies.

To make the LTV calculation easier for my students and me, I converted the Step 17 worksheet into an Excel spreadsheet. Using the spreadsheet has several advantages: it's faster, you can change the inputs and it allows you to see the key drivers for your LTV.

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One of my proudest projects from the past few years is the Trust Center Antifragile Entrepreneurship Speaker Series, which is now available to watch for free in its entirety. These 8 sessions were designed like a course to help the viewer understand what it takes to become more antifragile in concrete ways within the context we are living in right now.