Climate startup MVT: a four-stage testing roadmap
What would have to be true for your climate product to work—and which of those assumptions could quietly kill the company if they turn out to be wrong?
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What would have to be true for your climate product to work—and which of those assumptions could quietly kill the company if they turn out to be wrong?
Co-founder conflict accounts for 65% of high-potential startup failures, according to research by Harvard Business…
Last quarter, a founder in our cohort sat in her car outside a venture firm’s office for forty-five minutes after a…
When does a climate MVP spreadsheet stop being a useful model and start becoming a product risk?
Climate tech funding has become more selective, but the harder problem is usually earlier in the funnel. A prototype…
A climate startup can fail before it reaches a technical failure.
You've spent eighteen months in the lab. Your bench tests are clean, your pilot data looks beautiful, and your…
In 2023, climate tech startups absorbed $44.5 billion in venture capital. Software captured $5.8 billion—13% of the…
A climate founder usually does not choose a legal structure because the distinction feels intellectually interesting…
Most climate tech founders do not lose investors because their emissions model is wrong. They lose them because the…