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I am a serial entrepreneur (over 70 startups) turned early stage investor (2 startups), innovation expert, reluctant professor and now author.

I have written a lot throughout my career. I am up to over 60 published articles for Fortune, Forbes, Propmodo, CREtech, AlleyWatch, and more.

In 2024, I took the plunge and tried something more long form. The Entrepreneur's Odyssey (Routledge Press, 2025), a textbook disguised as a novel about what it really takes - and what it really feels like - to launch a startup.

(The Entrepreneur's Odyssey is loosely inspired by The Goal, a novel-cum-textbook that is the only textbook I remember from all my years of higher ed.
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

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