9 rules for building viable startups: Advice from a startup studio via VentureBeat
My 9 rules for building viable startups: Advice from a startup studio
Marcelo Calbucci, who builds startups at the Pioneer Square Labs studio in Seattle, shares nine rules: research goes a long way, stay close to the money, unglamorous ideas get validated faster, look for collisions of ideas, average is not enough, diversity matters, stay uncommitted but passionate, always be recruiting, and remember that entrepreneurs and idea people are rarely the same.
Franck Debane helps large companies build new ventures with Forward Partners: about a hundred programmes in more than 50 companies since 2012. He wrote Passez en mode startup (Eyrolles, 2021) and organises the Lead Innovation Day.
Short essays by email for people who launch new ventures inside large companies: testing ideas with customers, winning over leadership, using AI without the hype. Plus first invitations to Lead Innovation Day.