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A good pilot should leave you with fewer unanswered questions. Here’s how founders can design pilots to learn more about their product, customers, and company.

Make Sure Every Pilot Answers a Question

A pilot should teach you something about your product and your company. Before starting one, write down the questions you want answered. Will people actually use the product? How often will they use i…

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How to Raise a Grant in just 2 Weeks?

Raising a grant can be hard and slow. No one is going to be in a hurry to give you money. There are usually forms, calls, follow-ups and long periods where you have no idea what is happening. At 3F VC…

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The Invisible Decision Chain

One of the easiest mistakes to make in B2B is spending months validating a problem with the person who experiences it, only to discover that they have very little influence over whether your product g…

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Why This Is Feasible != Why This Is Relevant

As founders, we tend to fall in love with our approach. Once we have spent enough time thinking about a solution, building it, reading papers around it and defending it to other people, our judgment n…

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Why you should not attend events as an early-stage startup founder

Going into an event with the wrong expectations is almost guaranteed to create unhappiness. There is no point walking in thinking you will definitely find a co-founder, investor, customer, or mentor. …

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Being Zero-Sum as an Early-Stage Founder Hurts Your Chances of Winning

Early-stage startups are usually built on very little.

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How to Sound Ambitious Without Sounding Delusional?

Founders probably need some degree of delusion. A fully rational person could look at the odds, the workload, and the stress involved in building a company, then decide to do something easier. Startin…

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If Your Progress Depends on Grant Approval, You Are Probably Asking Too Early

If your project stops moving after a grant rejection, you may be asking the grant to carry too much of the project.

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How can a young founder build in healthcare?

It's important for young founders to realise that they are starting with these three constraints: trust, friction, and hierarchy.

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Why Hearing No Helps

Founders instinctively dread hearing the word no during early conversations. Rejection often feels like a personal indictment of your hard work. Rejection actually functions as the default state of th…

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When to Pivot

Most founders who pivot too late know, somewhere deep down, that the thing isn't working. They just keep hoping the next hire, the next feature, or the next customer conversation will change the math.…

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How seriously should you take rejection feedback from a VC?

Not as truth, but not as noise either. A VC rejection is usually not a diagnosis. It is a signal from one person, with one fund model, one mood, one portfolio, one partner meeting, and one view of the…

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