Why Nobody Understands Startup Growth
Wednesday, 30 July 2025
Startups don’t grow like businesses. Not in the traditional sense. They don’t scale by adding headcount, expanding inventory, or renting more retail space. They grow by discovering, and then systematically proving, a revenue-generating system that works before it collapses. And yet, here we are, in 2025, with startup advisors, development organizations, investors, and even policymakers
- Published in Insights / Research, Startup Ecosystems, Startups
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You Don’t Want to Be an Entrepreneur, You Want What It Represents
Friday, 25 July 2025
If you’re asking why you want to be an entrepreneur, you probably already shouldn’t be. That’s not snark (well, not only snark), it’s insight. I wanted to write this because becoming an entrepreneur, taking entrepreneurship studies, or questions about how to be one, are prolific topics in modern society. The things, entrepreneurs, real ones, aren’t
- Published in Insights / Research, Startups, Uncategorized
Why is “Are startup founders different?” Still a Meaningful Question??
Thursday, 03 July 2025
It’s always amusing when mainstream media stumbles into a conversation the rest of us have been having for, oh, I don’t know… decades? This week, The Economist decided to pose the bold question: “Are startup founders different?” as if it’s some new frontier of behavioral science. Imagine walking into a neuroscience conference and breathlessly announcing
- Published in Insights / Research, Startups
You Don’t Need Traction. You Need to Understand Why They Say You Do.
Friday, 13 June 2025
There’s a special kind of eye twitch that founders get the 37th time they hear, “We’d love to invest, but you need more traction.” It’s a vague hand-wave of a dismissal that sounds helpful, but is really just cowardice in a hoodie. And when you ask what kind of traction they mean, they blink like
- Published in Insights / Research, Raising Capital, Startups