Conversations, talks, and practical perspectives on the decisions early-stage founders are navigating.
From Research to Revenue: Where Deep Tech Gets Stuck and Why
A conversation with researchers and innovators about what happens between promising science and a viable company, and why commercialization often gets stuck along the way. We dig into funding, customer discovery, product development, and the decisions that can help deep-tech founders build traction earlier.
How Failure Fuels Innovation
A dynamic conversation with Krishanu Saha, Jon Eckhardt, and Adhira Sunkara about the role failure plays in innovation, and how founders, researchers, and teams can turn setbacks into useful information. We explore reframing failure as a testable hypothesis, learning from what doesn’t work, and using those lessons to make better decisions, pivot, and move ideas forward.
Building an Innovation Ecosystem: Forward Ag
A conversation with Wisconsin Technology Council President Tom Still about building Forward Ag, a statewide initiative that brought together universities, industry, government, entrepreneurs, and local communities around sustainable agriculture innovation. I discuss how years of stakeholder discovery, ecosystem building, and partnership development positioned the coalition to pursue a major NSF Engines opportunity.
*Recorded while I was Director of Strategy & Innovative Ventures at WiSys.
Innovative Outlier 