“Dan is one of those rare leaders who empowers you with the space and tools to do your best work, but also gives you the "safe place to land" if you need it. You WANT to do - and be - your best for him. He is super smart, driven, and passionate, but also incredibly chill, patient, and kind. Working with Dan was one of the most fulfilling experiences of my career, and I would not hesitate to follow him into the fire again.”
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If I was trying to build a $1M+ per year cash-flow business in 2024, here’s a few areas I’d consider (and how I'd do it): 1. The wholesalification…
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The future of building startups: - $1M+ revenue per employee - MVP speed (1x per month) - AI-accelerated - Superniche is the new niche - Community…
The future of building startups: - $1M+ revenue per employee - MVP speed (1x per month) - AI-accelerated - Superniche is the new niche - Community…
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Port City Makerspace
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Fast Company 30-second MBA
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Dream it Accelerator
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The Neighborhood Studios team spent the last few days thinking about our new idea pipeline and its output. Tons of thoughts on this after being in a venture studio for 2 years. Here are some summary stats... - 1,750 new (raw) ideas considered per year. - 110 of those are given a second glance. - 66 of those are seriously considered. - 10 of those become experiments...real products in the hands of customers. - 2 of those are spun-out into studio companies. What the studio team has been discussing over the past few days is that 66 number. That's the number of ideas that 3 people on the team can dig into every year. Venture studios can be perceived as a "startup factory"...an engine to launch startups. The reality is that venture studios are a machine to invalidate ideas. We invalidate many more ideas than we validate. We touch 1,750 ideas per year, seriously dive into 66 of them, build experiments for 10 of them and only launch 2 of them. All that work turns into 2 studio companies per year that have a way higher success rate than the average startup in the wild. Said another way...startups are hard. Talk with Tapan Patel Gabe Hart Whit Anderson IV Jonathan Brinson if you wanna talk about this. They are world class.
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