Gregory Shepard | Startup Architect

Started 13 companies, sold 12. Author, The Startup Lifecycle. CEO @startupscience_. Founder @Startup_inst. Fulbright Scholar. TEDx & UN speaker.

[Gregory Shepard | Startup Architect @GregShepard_]

Founders sit alone in the glow of the screen. Nothing is built for them.

So I made an album for them. 18 tracks. Fund Me or Fight Me, by The Startup Architect.

Put it on when the day gets hard.

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Read it here: https://t.co/WVE629uIzM

[Gregory Shepard | Startup Architect @GregShepard_]

97% of founders get turned away. Here's how to change your odds.

[Gregory Shepard | Startup Architect @GregShepard_]

Every startup moves through the same stages. Most founders don't know which one they're in. Knowing your stage tells you what to ignore.

[Gregory Shepard | Startup Architect @GregShepard_]

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Five years of research before a line of code: 4,867 accelerators, 2,200+ founders, 1,100 investors and 100 global corporations. The platform came after the answer.

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When should you hire your first salesperson? After you've closed the first 10 deals yourself and can explain exactly why each one bought.

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What we are not: not a CRM, not a fund or accelerator, and never priced per seat. The institution's name is on the work. Ours is underneath.

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Today at 9 am Pacific: how do we turn Kenyan Diaspora remittances into investment in Kenyan founders? A free online conversation with Africa Diaspora Voices. Join us.

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Today at 9 AM Pacific: The Diaspora Voices Forum.

Capital is already sitting in the diaspora. The question is how to put it to work back home.

8 PM Nairobi. 5 PM London.

Register: https://t.co/rlibsfalrY

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Program managers: if your cohort runs across six to ten tools, your founders feel it before you do. Engagement drops at week two to four, not week ten.

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Tomorrow: I'm on the panel at The Diaspora Voices Forum.

What would it take to unleash Kenyan diaspora capital?

With Dr. Willy Mutunga and Huldah Momanyi-Hiltsley.

November 12. 9 AM Pacific. 8 PM Nairobi. 5 PM London.

Register: https://t.co/rlibsfalrY

[Gregory Shepard | Startup Architect @GregShepard_]

A pitch deck is not a business plan. It's an invitation to a second meeting. Write it that way.

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The part nobody can go back and capture: the idea, the first validation, the co-founder conversation, the first customer signal. Everything before incorporation.

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Founders ask me the same questions every week. When do I raise? Who do I hire first? When is it time to sell? So I trained an AI on my books and frameworks. Ask it anything, anytime.

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Accelerators, your best metric isn't demo day. It's how many of your founders are still building three years later.

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[Gregory Shepard | Startup Architect @GregShepard_]

What compounds is the record, not the features. Coverage that begins before incorporation is the one asset that time alone builds and money alone cannot.