May 24Nurture ModeSome processes take time — you can’t grow a tree 10 times faster by planting 10 trees. This is where I find myself with the “Eggs and Algae” build-in-the-open startup. I have had a great round of conversations with experts and possible collaborators, but many processes take time to play…Startup2 min readStartup2 min read
Apr 28Take a BearingI was part of a scout troop as a youth. An amazing and an unpleasant experience all rolled into one 😉. One of the the amazing parts of the experience for me was “orienteering” basically given a map and compass you navigate to a new area. One of the practices…Synbio4 min readSynbio4 min read
Apr 25Getting People on the BusIn a very early startup I was debating with a cofounder whether we needed to know, in much detail, what the company was building or if we just needed talented and effective people on the bus (the startup) to help us identify the right places to go. At the time…Synbio6 min readSynbio6 min read
Apr 21Random Chance and StartupsI think about the role randomness — and incomplete information — plays in startups (and all businesses? and life?) and I tend to think it plays a bigger role — both good and bad — than people assume on a day to day basis. In some ways I get myself…4 min read4 min read
Apr 20Does it Matter to Customers (and Grappling with Business Model)Importance One of the items that I think is key for a startup in the synthetic biology space — a space that has so much _future_ potential — is ensuring there could be fit for customers today and in the near future. Could the product and market make sense together and…8 min read8 min read
Apr 18Happy Eggs and Algae — Moving from Idea to ProblemStartups can be more impactful when working in problem spaces than they are when just working on ideas. Working on problems enables them to use their advantages of being able to decide and act without delay, and to take risks that having a more mature business makes more challenging. But…6 min read6 min read
Apr 17Building a Startup “in the Open” for 4 weeksI am intending to “build in the open” the first stage of a startup over the next 4 weeks. Why am I building in the open now and sharing the story? The first reason is that my focus is in a market segment that is early and is dynamic, and…Startupş2 min readStartupş2 min read
Published inProperly·Jan 5IRL to VRScanning a room with ARKit (LiDAR!) to be viewed in an VR App — I have been very pleased with the Meta Quest 2 device (Beat Saber!) and in particular finding it cool when when family was not able to get together. As a family who games we occasionally jumped into a VR game when spread across a few cities. It is _way_ better…VR9 min readVR9 min read
Published inProperly·Aug 5, 2021What Draws Me to Projects Beginning to ScaleIn a previous post “What Draws Me to Early Stage Tech Projects” I outlined the earliest stages of a new organization that was building a nascent system to solve an important problem. I highlighted why you might enjoy or learn from a business at that stage — as Properly was…Life At Properly12 min readLife At Properly12 min read
Jan 23, 2019BlackBerry20About a week or two ago my son Ben gave me a bit of a hard time when I referred to BBM and BlackBerry and some of the projects I was involved in as potentially significant in the past but not really relevant day to day. He felt I might…10 min read10 min read
