For Universities, Funds & Corporates

For the ideas worth commercializing, and the ones that only look like it.

Entrepreneur in Residence for organizations sitting on more opportunity than they can work. I go in as the operator, not the advisor: judging what is real, building the commercial path, and coaching the founders through it.

What this is

Most organizations with a portfolio of ideas have the same problem. There is more potential than there is time, or operator experience, to pursue it. Research that could become a company. A corporate initiative that needs someone who has actually shipped. A fund whose founders need more than a board seat.

Entrepreneur in Residence is built for exactly that gap. An operator works the opportunities alongside your team, decides which ones are worth real time and money, and builds the commercial path for the ones that are.

The best ideas die in the gap between invention and market. Closing that gap is the whole job. This is not a report. It is an operator in the building, making the calls with you, for as long as the work takes.

Who it is for:

You are a university or research institution with IP stuck between the lab and the market.
You are a venture or private equity fund that needs operator diligence, and portfolio founders who need more than a board seat.
You are a corporate building a new venture and want an operator who has built one before.
You are an accelerator or incubator whose founders need senior operator time they can actually use.

Not a fit:

You want a report or a strategy deck, not someone in the building.
You want the work handed to associates, not done by the operator.
You are not ready to act on what the evaluation actually says.

The Work

A read on what is real

Which opportunities have a commercial path and which only look like they do. I score them against a commercialization model I built, so the portfolio gets ranked by likelihood of a real outcome, not by who pitched hardest.

The path built in the field, not written up

Market discovery done in person, the business model pressure-tested, the first customers, the team and the advisors who make the difference. Customer discovery is the operating system, not a phase.

The founders coached through it

The people doing the building are the variable that decides the outcome. I work with them directly, the same way I work with founders in advisory.

How It Works

Scope the mandate

The portfolio, the initiative, or the fund. What a real outcome looks like, and on what timeline.

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A set cadence, in the building, with your team. Not a call once a month.

Commercialize and hand off

Evaluate, build, and get it to the point where your people can carry it.

Start with a conversation.

Tell me what you are sitting on. We will figure out whether there is a real outcome in it, and what it would take.

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