Platform & Ecosystem Strategy: The Game Every Founder Must Play

When the platform you rely on changes its rules overnight, your business model shouldn't collapse with it — here's how to think smarter about where you build.

MAKING STRATEGY WHEN YOU ARE ALSO THE BOTTLENECK

Your weekly guide to building companies that scale beyond you

The Growth Strategy Tax: What Your Virality Obsession Is Actually Costing

The counterintuitive math behind killing 90% of your growth ideas

The 3 Startup Myths Burning Your Runway

Contrarian lessons from founders who ditched the playbook

Inference Optimization Is the New Growth Hack

Why Smart Companies Are Racing to Make AI Faster and Cheaper

The End of Linear Growth Models in an AI-Commoditized World

When everyone has access to intelligence, what becomes your competitive edge?

How to Make 12 Months of Runway Last Like 18

The strategic playbook for stretching startup capital without raising more money

The Cult of Constraints: Why Limits Make Great Products

Why Twitter’s 140 characters, early Instagram’s square photos, and BeReal’s timed posts used limits to spark creativity, culture, and obsession.

Why a Startup Without a System Is a Sandcastle

Until You Embed System/Processes into the Business, the Business Depends on You.

If It Doesn’t Work on a Napkin, It Won’t Work at All

The Simplest Way to Spot a Broken Business Model

The Problem With Blending In

What Seth Godin’s Purple Cow theory still gets right about "standing out" in 2025.

An Idea for Addressing Bias and Judgement Errors

By using AI

On Attracting Competent and Driven Talent to Your Startup

Holiday Edition of Startup Strategist

I analyzed 19 government funding programs to help entrepreneurs

Here are the most promising ones you can apply to build your business.