Advice for Founders
Fundraising and pitch decks:
Dear Advisor: How long will Fundraising take? (or) 8 Steps you Need to Know to Fundraise Successfully (December 2022, January + March 2023)
Advice from Due Diligence of 25+ Pitch Decks: Advice for Aligning Product, Technology and AI in your Pitch Deck Story (July + October + December 2022, March 2023)
Dear Advisor: What metrics should I include in my pitch deck? (January 2023)
What are the most common pre-seed and seed-stage pitch deck mistakes? (December 2020, updated March, September + October 2022, March 2023)
Data-driven Product Market Fit:
Talk: Power of Data for Product Market Fit (or) Your Product Market Fit Roadmap to Escalate your Growth (including slides and recording)
Dear Advisor: How do I do Product-Led-Growth (PLG) as my Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy for Product market fit (PMF)? (September 2021, updated May 2022)
Product Market Fit Roadmap in 6 Parts (November 2020)
Getting started as a data-driven company:
(Step 1) Dear Advisor: How do I get Started on a Data Strategy from the Beginning? (October 2022)
(Step 2) Dear Advisor: I’d like to make data-driven decisions. Where do I start? (May, July 2021)
(Step 3) Dear Advisor: How do I do Product-Led-Growth (PLG) as my Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy for Product market fit (PMF)? (September 2021, updated May 2022)
How to Deliver Business Impact with Data (January 2020, updated May, June, and October 2020, April, November and December 2021, January + November 2022)
5 Aspects of your Business you Need to Track Today to make any Data-Driven Decisions (October 2019 + September 2021)
Why there's no such thing as clean data (June 2021, updated June 2022 + February 2023)
Extending Runway:
Resources for Extending your Runway (July 2020, updated monthly through April 2021 + September 2021, November + December 2022, February 2023)
Dear Advisor: Why is it so Hard to Integrate with EHRs? (Or) Why I Don’t Recommend Integrating with an EHR, especially in your MVP (September 2022)
Dear Advisor: What should (not) be your AI roadmap? (or) Why You Don't Need AI in your SaaS MVP (April 2022, updated May 2022)
Getting started as a founder:
Dear Advisor: I have a start-up idea, what should I do next? (or) How to validate your idea -- and align incentives -- before spending money to build an MVP (September 2020, March, May -- August 2021, September and October 2022)
Dear Advisor: My MVP demos are not converting (November 2020)
Dear Advisor: How do I Find a Cofounder? (or) Why you Don't Need One (August 2022)
Post MVP:
Dear Advisor: Can I just survey my customers to help me decide what to build next? (Or) Why I Don't Recommend NPS Scores (July 2021, October 2022)
Dear Advisor: What metrics should I be thinking about? (September 2020, January 2023)
Dear Advisor: Should I pivot? (August 2020)
AI:
Advice from Due Diligence of 25+ Pitch Decks: Advice for Aligning Product, Technology and AI in your Pitch Deck Story (July + October + December 2022, March 2023)
Dear Advisor: How do I avoid the biggest data/AI/ML mistakes others make? (June 2020, updated August 2020, September 2020, April 2021, April 2022)
Dear Advisor: What should (not) be your AI roadmap? (or) Why You Don't Need AI in your SaaS MVP (April 2022, updated May 2022)