Accelerators, innovation systems, and ecosystem growth
Three recent articles on Poets & Quants caught my eye: – ‘AI IS DEVALUING THE MBA’: Stanford Students Speak Out On Curriculum Lag & Risk To The B-School’s Brand.– ‘WE EXPECTED MORE’: Stanford GSB Students Call For Higher Teaching Standards.– ‘WE’RE NOT LEARNING ANYTHING’: Stanford GSB Students Sound The Alarm Over Academics. These articles are […] The post AI Impact in Education appeared first on…
If you’ve seen any sports news recently, you probably heard about the new “torpedo bats” the Yankees are using and how well they seem to be working. It’s a simple redesign. By redistributing weight away from the end, the bat delivers more mass at the point of contact, resulting in farther hits. The idea came […] The post The Bat and the Can appeared first on Startups Unplugged .
30 days of rejection encourages founders to seek daily, in-person rejections to build resilience against “no.” My recent enhancements include AI analysis of results to reveal patterns in rejections. The post The Rejection Exercise appeared first on Startups Unplugged .
Attention flows to hot markets. Depending on when you look around, that could be AI, crypto, web3, climate tech, SaaS, Fintech, metaverse, VR/AR, or whatever’s trending now. But what if the best startup opportunities are actually in cold markets that most people ignore? I wrote about a version of this phenomenon in my Why Now […] The post The “Cold Market” as the next hot market. appeared first on…
For the last 2 years I’ve made gen AI mandatory in the classroom, but this semester there were so many useful AI tools and other techniques that I brought them in more heavily. A few examples from a class of grad students testing and potentially launching new businesses: Problem: I had the student founders start […] The post More on Gen AI Usage in Entrepreneurship appeared first on Startups…
If you’ve been following me here, you know that I spent the last couple years workshopping, speaking, and writing about the impact timing has on the success of a product. In extension of that, the following is an overview of different approaches I’ve found of others dealing with the timing question. The following is an […] The post What Others Say About Timing appeared first on Startups Unplugged…
They say timing is everything in business. But how do you determine if your timing is right? The post What People Miss About Timing appeared first on Startups Unplugged .
10 years ago today, NYU finance professor Aswath Damodaran, well-known for his work on corporate valuations, posted an article on Uber. The rideshare company was already a unicorn (a new term at the time), with a $17B valuation. Yet, Damodaran ran the numbers and came up with a more modest $5.9B valuation. The title of […] The post Measuring Your Market? Consider Timing. appeared first on Startups…
Understand unit economics (CAC, LTV, and more) and improve your financial sustainability and odds of raising capital. The post Surviving the Investment Climate with Unit Economics appeared first on Startups Unplugged .
How does startup timing (or the "why now" question) impact business success? Here are 50 timing examples from startup pitch decks, interviews, and articles. The post 50 Timing Examples (the Why Now question) appeared first on Startups Unplugged .