About "A New Science of Venture Building" framework
Most frameworks in the innovation and venture space are methodologies: step-by-step processes that tell you what to do in what order. This is not one of those. It is a lens and an operative playbook: a set of foundational commitments that change what you see when you look at a venture opportunity, an innovation function, or a capital structure, and that determine how you act on what you see.
The difference matters, but not because the existing methodologies were wrong. Lean Startup, Customer Development, Business Model Canvas, Design Thinking: these produced some of the most successful ventures of the last thirty years. They were the right tools for their moment. The problem is that the moment changed and the tools didn’t. The assumptions baked into them, about the scarcity of technology, the cost of building, the dynamics of capital, the structure of markets, stopped being true. Outcomes stalled. The tools proliferated anyway.
The framework is the result of operating seriously, in parallel, across domains that rarely overlap in one person: entrepreneur with exits, VC partner, designer of national innovation ecosystems, university lecturer. Each domain has its own received wisdom and its own blind spots. Working across all of them simultaneously makes the contradictions visible, and the contradictions are where the interesting questions live. For a fuller account of that background, the Who Am I post is the right place.
The result is a systematic approach to building ventures that are more likely to succeed, more capital-efficient, and more profitable by design rather than by luck. It operates through four commitments. Demand-First Design: the venture is built around a named buyer with a verified need, not a capability in search of a market. Ecosystem Architecture: the relationships between corporations, capital, governments, and academia are designed as functional assets, not left to emerge. Portfolio Strategy: positions are managed across time horizons and outcome types, with exit architecture defined at inception. Falsifiability: failure conditions are specified at the outset, not negotiated in distress.
Each of these is developed in the Framework Essentials series, published alongside the regular posts on this site. The analysis, arguments, and occasional provocations in the main feed are the framework operating on live material. The Essentials series is where the logic is laid out directly.
This framework is designed for now. The techno-economic conditions it addresses will keep shifting, and the commitments that make sense today will eventually need to be revised, updated, and at some point discarded in favour of whatever comes next. That is not a weakness in the argument. It is the argument.