Lately I’ve been focusing on how pitches are really about telling stories about disruption. See How to tell disruptive stories, the Piggly Wiggly way…
Disruptive storytelling series

February 2023

Disruptive storytelling series
Disruptive storytelling series
So your startup is doing something disruptive but you’re having a hard time pitching it. It’s difficult to walk the fine line between too crazy and not…

January 2023

Every morning Warren Buffet eats one of three things from the McDonald’s drive thru: This is the behaviour of a dedicated McDonald’s customer! You could…
Someone asked me recently about managing a startup during a downturn. I’ve run startups during the dot-com bust and the subprime mortgage crisis, so I…
You can study cap tables like a geologist studies sedimentary rock. The top layers are made up of freshly laid down preferred shares, maybe a…
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December 2022

Prediction: it’s now only a matter of time before pitch decks become obsolete. Recently, I used ChatGPT to create a very convincing startup idea and…
How much time will we have between AI being not-quite good enough at storytelling to being much better than us? We’re about to find out. ChatGPT from…

November 2022

I was looking for a marketing agency recently and was surprised at the pushback when I asked for references. “Too much hassle for our clients.” “We’ve…
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A conversation with Joseph Fung, co-founder and CEO of Uvaro.