Where great startup ideas actually come from, and how to tell a real one from a trap. Four talks on finding, pressure-testing, and committing to the thing worth building.

Where Do Great Startup Ideas Come From?

How to Evaluate Startup Ideas

Before the Startup

How to Start a Startup

Zero to One Idea

Ship something small, put it in front of real people, and learn fast. A hands-on path from first prototype to your first paying customers.

How to Plan an MVP

How to Talk to Users

How to Get Your First Customers

Build the MVP

The lonely, focused grind of building a product mostly on your own. How to succeed, where to spend your hours, and what separates founders who last.

How to Succeed with a Startup

How to Prioritize Your Time

What Makes a Great Founder

Solo to SaaS

Fundraising without the mystique. The fundamentals of a seed round, how to pitch so investors lean in, and hard-won advice from people who write the checks.

Fundraising Fundamentals

How to Pitch Your Startup

How to Raise Money

Raise the Round

Turn a product people like into a business that compounds. Real mechanics of growth, getting users, and learning to sell before you think you can.

Growth

How to Get Users and Grow

How to Sell

Growth Engines

The inner game. Purpose, resilience, and the long view from founders and thinkers who have been through it, for the days the work feels impossible.

Stanford Commencement Address

Start With Why

The Single Biggest Reason Startups Succeed

Founder Mindset

Queue up.Level up.

Zero to One Idea

Build the MVP

Solo to SaaS

Raise the Round

Growth Engines

Founder Mindset

Zero to One Idea

Build the MVP

Solo to SaaS

Raise the Round

Growth Engines

Founder Mindset

Queue up. Level up.