The Top Startup Secrets Are No Longer Secret!
Michael Skok
Founding Partner at Underscore VC, Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School
What if you could travel to your future success as an entrepreneur and come back as a startup, enriched with the frameworks and understanding to guide your team to build a great company?
That was our vision a few years ago when we began developing Startup Secrets in conjunction with the Harvard Innovation Lab. Since then we’ve worked with hundreds of exceptional entrepreneurs to develop Startup Secrets: a series of workshops, case studies and articles that cover some of the key areas that entrepreneurs and innovators have to think through as they build their businesses.
The results have surprised us, with more than 5 million hours of viewing and hundreds of thousands of online engagements as well as thousands of offline entrepreneurs who have participated and contributed to the program. The inspiration of what many of you have shared has caused us to continue working hard for our news below.
“Thanks for all your teachings, they have been the single biggest contributor to company revenue…” — Timothy
“LOVE the program you have built… highly recommend this to new and serial entrepreneurs.” — Andrew
“This is so great! Pure ecstasy for any entrepreneur.” — Daniel
“Your site/videos have proven to be INVALUABLE” — Andraz
And now you can enjoy the new Startup Secrets home. Here are some topics you'll find there to get you going:
- Developing a roadmap to success that helps budding entrepreneurs identify their first steps and path to follow through the entire life of their company.
- How to build a compelling value proposition Make it real by following these 4 steps.
- Turning a product into a company to grow that minimum viable product, or MVP, into something much more valuable in the long-run by identifying a Minimum Viable Segment (MVS).
- Hiring A+ talent to propel your company and take 3 steps to make hires that fit.
- Creating game changing business models to be just as disruptive as the technology that you’ve developed.
- Finding the right path to go to market through applying an overall strategic and tactical framework, along with numerous case examples.
Plus many additional units.
Thank you all for your prior support! We have a lot, lot more to do to realize our dream of building practical, digestible content and a site that will empower entrepreneurs to be their best. But as a first step on that journey, we’re excited to unveil this new site.(Special thanks to Tanner Elvidge on our team @underscorevc who had the vision and led the hard work to make this new site happen.) We look forward to you visiting, engaging with the content, commenting and signing up for the new weekly newsletter.
And if you want us to also keep posting future Startup Secrets here on Linked IN, just click the like button or leave a comment below.
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At Underscore VC, Michael and his team partner with daring entrepreneurs to invest in founders and build from inception to market leaders. As a former entrepreneur turned VC, Michael has backed and built teams that have created billions of dollars of value focusing on large, market-changing technologies such as Cloud Computing, IoT and Big Data as well as disruptive business models such as Open Source and SaaS. Current representative investments include Acquia, Cazena, Demandware (NYSE:DWRE), Mautic and Salsify.
Follow Michael on LinkedIn, Twitter @mjskok, his website, and in his Harvard Innovation Lab class, Startup Secrets. Follow Underscore VC on the web and Twitter @underscorevc.
iOS Developer
7 年I am grateful for this opportunity to dive into an entrepreneurship journey to make our world a better place. Startup secret is supporting me a lot. Thank you so much.
Building impactful partnerships
8 年Hello there, I recently co-founded a social enterprise on tech education in Nepal. The MVS (Minimum Viable Segment) is definitely a necessary concept to be paired with the MVP! After reading about it here, I came to understand that this was one big thing we overlooked in our initial stages. Our MVP seemed to attract lots of attention, but what we didn't realise was specifically who it belonged to. Figuring out who your segments are at the MVP stage is definitely a way to make sure that you aren't diverting unnecessary resources to creating the MVP, and making your iteration cycle more effective.
CEO at Decision Ministries International - Prophetic, Teaching & Coaching
8 年Thanks, PJ! You're doing amazing work! Do you have a newsletter or website that addresses the entrepreneurial side of your projects?
Management Accountant
8 年Oddly, there is no link to sign up after all this great copy.
Committed to Drilling 'em Safer, Deeper and Cheaper! Disclaimer: The opinions and remarks expressed in my posts are strictly my own and do not in any way, shape, or form reflect on my past, present or future employers!
8 年Appreciate this post!