Perspective: The Great Inversion - How AI is Changing the Implementation of Lean Startup Methodology ai-drive leanstartup mindset Jul 21, 2025

 When code is free and speed is infinite, the real constraint is knowing what’s worth building.


Key Takeaways:

  • The traditional Lean Startup cycle is being replaced by AI-powered validation loops.

  • The new bottlenecks are clarity of intent and precision of outcome.

  • The Venture Speed

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RoAI: How Smart Venture Studios Measure the Real Return on AI roai roi venturestudio Jun 04, 2025

How do you measure the ROI of the moon landing? Not in revenue or cost savings. But in momentum, credibility, and reshaping what an entire generation believed was possible. It wasn’t just a space race. It was a race to define the future.

That’s the scale of leverage we’re talking about with AI-nati...

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Studios That Last: The Venture Speed Manifesto for People-First, AI-Native Venture Building manifesto values venturestudio Jun 01, 2025

People First. Business Logic Second. AI Next.

A decade ago I committed myself to the studio mindset because it solves real problems I’ve lived through as a first-time founder. I’ve felt the burden of building without structure. Burning months on decisions that should’ve taken days. Carrying too muc...

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The Practical Guide to Venture Studios, Startup Studios: Building and Scaling Startups Smarter basics guide introduction startupstudio venturestudio May 30, 2025

A Comprehensive Introduction to Venture Studios and How to Build Startups with Higher Speed and Efficiency

The way people build startups is changing. Venture studios and startup studios are a key part of this change. These organizations systematically create, build, and scale new companies. They ha...

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Minimum Viable Automation - Get Your First Compounding Wins ai-drive automation mva May 27, 2025

 

The real power of AI in venture building isn’t speed. It’s leverage.

At first, it’s small: You take a task you do every day, write a half-decent prompt, save 10–15 minutes. -> Nice. But basic.

Then you realize what AI can do with the non-repetitive, high-impact work—the kind that used to take d...

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Why the AI Gold Rush Is a Green Light for Venture Studios ai-drive merantix trends May 25, 2025

VCs just made it official: AI isn’t just part of the startup landscape - it is the landscape.

In Q1 2025, AI and machine learning startups got more than 57% of global venture funding, exceeding to $73 billion. This is impressive even if $40 billion of this was a funding round for OpenAI. But it’s n...

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Manifesto, Why Venture Speed mission trends why May 25, 2025

Since I published the 2nd edition of the Startup Studio Playbook in 2019 I was largely silent on social media. I was focusing on clients helping to get from Zero to Minimum Viable Studio and the GVN Studio Bootcamp. This meant working with hundreds of founders, leaders, new insight, new methods, new...

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