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Start and scale a new business on your terms.

For those who want to create something entirely new. Validation, MVP, traction, and funding organized by where you are in the journey.

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The Journey

Exploration Phase

“Should I start something from scratch?”

You see problems everywhere and want to build solutions. These resources help you validate before you build and invest before you bet.

“The downside was capped. Worst case, I could always get another law firm job. But the upside was essentially limitless. There's no limit to how much wealth and impact you could have.”
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Songe LaRon
Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Squire
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Map Your Path

Bootstrap and venture are two different games with different rules, partners, and definitions of winning. Five questions to find out which one fits you before you make any irreversible decisions.
Get this wrong and spend years recovering. Five questions, ten minutes.
Find Your Path →

Validate Before Building

The founders who waste the least time build the least before they know someone will pay. Here is the 7-day framework to test your idea before you risk a dollar or an hour of sleep.
Know if anyone will pay before you build a single thing.
Validate Your Idea →
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Lower-stakes entry through the Gravy Wealth syndicate. Build pattern recognition before betting on yourself.
Build pattern recognition before you bet on yourself.
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Preparation Phase

“I have an idea.  How do I make it real?”

Ideas are cheap. Execution is everything. These resources help you build your MVP, find your people, and get to market fast.

“Thirty percent is your work experience. Seventy percent is your network of investors and customers. Zero percent for the product and the idea. Most successful exits shipped a completely different product.”
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Will Drewery
Founder & CEO, Diagon
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Build While Employed

You do not need to quit your job to build something real. The tools available now make it possible to ship a working product in 30 days without writing a line of code. Here is exactly how.
Ship something real in 30 days without quitting your job.
Start Building →

Set Up Your Foundation

Entity formation, business banking, and cap table basics. The legal and financial infrastructure every startup needs before taking its first dollar. Most founders set this up wrong.
Most founders set this up wrong. Here is how to do it right from day one.
Set It Up →

Join the Owner Mode Sprint

One week to clarify your ownership path, pressure-test your thinking, and connect with peers building toward the same thing.
One week. Clarity on your path. People who are doing the same thing.
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Execution Phase

“I’m building.  How do I get traction and funding?”

You have a product. Now you need customers, capital, and the systems to scale. This is where it gets real.

“Jeff told us every single thing that sucked about our business. We said, you're right, tell us what to do differently. We did every single thing he asked. That's how we landed that contract.”
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Samir G.
Gravy Capital Portfolio · Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Esusu · $1.2B fintech unicorn
Gravy Capital Portfolio
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Get Your First Customers

Your first 10 customers are not found through marketing. They are found through conversations. Here is the exact outreach sequence that converts warm contacts into paying customers.
Your first 10 customers are already in your network. Here is how to find them.
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Get in Front of Investors

Pitch frameworks, warm introductions, and term sheet guidance. Here is how to get in front of the right investors when your traction is ready to back it up.
The investor introduction most founders spend years trying to earn.
Start Fundraising →

Investor Readiness Score

Ten reflective questions that produce a 0-100 readiness score, your top three gaps, and a specific next action. Know exactly where you stand before you take a single investor meeting.
Know your score before you walk into a single investor meeting.
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