Startup Engineering is a program and framework for finding genuine unmet demand and building scalable companies to satisfy it. Startup engineers take a “problem first” approach to identify inadequately addressed pain in their customer’s personal or professional lives. They generate theories about customer improvement goals and the constraints that

August 30, 2013 by Merrick Furst . Imagine you are a surgeon in the 1890s. Recent developments in anesthesia and antisepsis had made surgery much more practical. The great 19th century scientific project of categorizing and diagramming the physical world had spread to medicine with the publication of Gray’s Anatomy.

December 7, 2013 by Matt Chanoff. THERE was once a velveteen startup, and in the beginning he was really splendid. He was fat and bunchy, as a startup should be; his technology was inspiring, his CEO visionary, and his market narrative had threads of real interest from customers. Many people

A key filter for accepting teams into Flashpoint is expertise. By expertise, we mean substantial time and focus and achievement in a particular area that relates to the area of your business. We don’t care about expertise because we want to support companies that address a problem the team