StartUp Advisor:
StartUp Founders: How They Stop You
As a founder, no matter the epicness of what you build, you’re up against forces determined to see you fail. Every customer you win is someone else’s loss. This competition is governed by Porter’s 5 Forces & 7 Barriers, with the battle for market relevance and dominance fought at the meso level.
StartUp Founders: Friction Kills. Marie Kondo It.
Founders’ obsession with speed is akin to a squirrel on espresso – hyperactive and directionless. You don’t want speed, you want velocity: momentum in the right direction. For founders, before the user journey, before the wireframes, before the before, comes the 5 pillars of the user journey.