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Entrepreneurs Making Their Mark!

Entrepreneurs Making Their Mark!

Here at WKI we are lucky to spend our days in the world of new science and technology innovations -- renewable energies, medical devices, AI, and the like.  I enjoy seeing our design frameworks help new and often novel approaches find their way to market to make an...

Chasing Capital Redux

Chasing Capital Redux

Many thanks to those who requested the written version of last week's audio blog...here it is: Chasing Capital Redux I originally wrote this Blog months ago – and never published it.  I wrote it before we knew what would happen with vaccine development; and before we...

Design Your Investor Approach

Design Your Investor Approach

Listen to this blog post in audio format below. After spending an hour on a call today with a new seed fund it really got me thinking about the importance of startup...

No Market Need?!

No Market Need?!

I have seen multiple reports claiming that something like over 40% of startups fail because they offer something the market doesn’t need.  As I dug into the data, I think it should be interpreted more as 40% of the failures can be attributed to not meeting a market...

Clinics on Wheels – A Case Study in Redesigning Your Business

Clinics on Wheels – A Case Study in Redesigning Your Business

Clinics on Wheels - https://clinicsonwheels.com Meet my friend and serial entrepreneur Tony Cowan.  Tony has a long and dedicated career helping to provide recovery and assistance to many of the nation’s and the world’s disasters. The latest vaccine distribution...

Want to Ignite Your Idea Engine? It Starts with a Cocktail Napkin…

Want to Ignite Your Idea Engine? It Starts with a Cocktail Napkin…

Welcome back everyone! Ahhh… September – can’t you just feel the energy as we rev our engines back up for the fall? I love these days when everyone is kicking it up into high gear. There’s a buzz and enthusiasm in the air that’s infectious. Many of our WKI Certified...

Founders Helping Founders – The Best Advice You Can Get

Founders Helping Founders – The Best Advice You Can Get

Life as a startup founder takes conviction, tenacity, passion, a sense of adventure, self-awareness and (________________) insert your own choice of personality traits. I always enjoy reading articles that talk about the DNA of a founder and what it takes to be...

The Founder’s Power Tool – The Category Map

The Founder’s Power Tool – The Category Map

One of the most popular tools in the So what? who cares? why you? methodology is the category map.  Using this tool, an innovator is able bridge the gap in understanding between the science and technology and the business opportunity an idea represents. Here are five...