
Coaching and Mentorship of Early Ventures
What I do:
I work with startups and student projects to help conceptualize and pressure-test their budding ventures. I help:
Spot gaps in logic, story, or value.
Pressure-test business cases, especially in healthcare or service models.
Help sharpen competitive advantage and message.
Bring deep human-centered design expertise to ensure a strong customer-centric foundation and process.
Help ideate on possibilities and increase the “value pie”.
When should you reach out?
You have an idea for a startup and could use an outside perspective to challenge you answer the tough questions.
You have a strong concept but unsure how to best structure it to realize value.
You are developing your product and service and could use guidance on how to prototype and test before investing significant resources.
You want a “health check” at any stage of your early venture and could use someone to help you poke holes and pressure-test it before the big next step.
I work with early ventures at all stages of maturity: from an idea, to a fleshed-out concept, to post-launch.
What could this look like?
Startup coaching intensives.
“Office hour” style advisory.
End-to-end engagement in university programs, incubators and accelerators.