The Bell Mason Diagnostic and First Principles Thinking in Venture Capital
Thursday, 20 February 2025
Why Venture Capital Needs a First Principles Overhaul Venture capital is broken. Not in the “bubble’s about to pop” and certainly not in the sense that so many are pissed off because they aren’t getting funded, but in the “founders keep getting bad funding advice from firms still operating on outdated, ineffective methodologies” sense. In the
- Published in Raising Capital, Startup Ecosystems
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Your Startup Methodology is What’s Failing: How the First Principles Approach Beats Lean, Agile, and Waterfall
Tuesday, 18 February 2025
Your Brain Is More Agile Than Your Project Plan If there’s one thing founders can count on, it’s that nothing ever goes according to plan. Timelines slip, stakeholders pivot, technology evolves, and sometimes (typically), the whole thing implodes spectacularly. But what if the way we approach project management itself is fundamentally flawed—not because of poor
- Published in Startups