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  1. New Case Study & A Look at Discovery Questions

    We are exited to share a new case study featuring our work with Grandstand and also highlighting the Discovery work that helped them quickly plan the right approach.

    Kelly Gebo
    July 13, 2021
    • Startup
    • Strategy
    • Successful Products
  2. New Case Study & Updated Services for Early-Stage Teams

    After a successful project with Oromoon and others, we’ve updated our services to better support early-stage companies and entrepreneurs.

    Kelly Gebo
    June 29, 2021
    • Startup
    • Strategy
    • Successful Products
  3. The Investment Pitch Package sets up your product and your business

    thoughtbot helps founders translate a product vision into a strong investor pitch deck with a validated prototype and a roadmap for bringing your product to life.

    Kelly Gebo
    May 13, 2021
    • Product
    • Successful Products
    • Startup
  4. How to Create a Minimum Viable Content Strategy

    After starting a business, creating a content strategy might be the last thing on your mind. But you don’t have to do months of research to create meaningful content for your audience. Enter: Minimum Viable Content Strategy.

    Tori Shaffrey
    January 5, 2021
    • Marketing
    • Strategy
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  5. New panel: Your path to digital health startup success

    We’re calling on health tech industry experts to discuss market incentives, partnerships, regulations, and other business strategy topics.

    Lindsey Christensen
    September 17, 2020
    • Health Tech
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  6. Advice for starting a health tech startup

    Startups in the healthcare space have some unique decisions to make early on: which incentives model to use, how to organize a medical team, and identifying legal resources to name a few.

    Lindsey Christensen
    August 17, 2020
    • Health Tech
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  7. Thinking Through Your Two-Sided Marketplace

    A preview of how we strategically think through a two-sided marketplace and an inputs worksheet for establishing engagement goals.

    Kelly Gebo
    June 26, 2020
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  8. Variety is the spice of podcast: new season of Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

    Giant Robots podcast will follow the trials and tribulations of 3 different startups in real time.

    Lindsey Christensen
    April 10, 2020
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  9. How to define and prioritize features for your MVP

    Starting a business and building an MVP is hard, really hard. In fact, according to CB Insights, 70% of startups will fail. Learn how to reduce your risk of failure by building only the features you need in your MVP.

    Adrian Rogowski
    July 4, 2018
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  10. How to Build an AI Startup, and Do You Really Need To?

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) is all the rage right now. Everyone has an opinion, which means it can be hard to cut through the hype, and get to grips with some practical down to Earth questions. Questions like “Can I build a new business that leverages AI?”, and “Where do I start?”.

    Laurie Young
    July 2, 2018
    • Artificial Intelligence
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    • Neural Networks
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