This post is about the best lesson I learned this year. And to tell you it, I’ve got to tell you a story. I got married this past fall — we luckily snuck it in between Covid variants — and my mind has decided to treat the whole thing like…

A quickie. Today is Amazon Prime Day and Amazon Prime Day is made up. It’s not a thing — it doesn’t commemorate anything and neither 21 nor 621 are even Prime numbers. I checked. I have no idea how or why it started but here’s how I imagine that first…

By Brian Scordato, Founder of Tacklebox Accelerator and the Idea to Startup Podcast Today’s post will help you raise money from non-VCs for your early stage startup. The current approach… Spend 100 hours on a pitch deck Send it to lots of people Hope …isn’t working. So let’s workshop it. …

By Brian Scordato, Founder of Tacklebox Accelerator and the Idea to Startup Podcast My best friend growing up lived about 5 houses down from me. He moved there in 3rd grade, coming from a far away land called “Long Island” that to 3rd grade Brian sounded very exotic. His older…

By Brian Scordato, Founder of Tacklebox Accelerator and the Idea to Startup Podcast Your startup (and lots of other very important things in your life) will depend on moments. These moments seem, and often are, serendipitous. You get a job because you bump into someone at a wedding, you meet…

The first time I heard about The Da Vinci Code, a thriller written by Dan Brown and released in 2003, was from a kid in my dorm at Union College. He was a strange kid. He spent most of his days watching CHiPs reruns in a bathrobe. Anyway, I walked…

Why do you watch Schitt’s Creek? Because it’s a good show? Sure — it’s funny. I’m 4 seasons in. But it’s not a great show. I’d argue (successfully) that it’s not even the best show with the word Creek in the title. Feel free to open up your morning light…

<This is from the Tacklebox Newsletter. Subscribe with thousands of others here.> My college basketball coach was a real asshole. Note: I learned after college he isn’t actually an asshole, we’re close now, but that’s not as strong of an intro. My coach did two things college kids don’t care…

(sub to the newsletter for these posts here) ​Quibi launched on April 6th and immediately signed up 1.7 million customers. The company is run by entertainment and tech royalty, and has raised $1.8 billion dollars. Unfortunately, Quibi is already dead. They won’t be around in 18 months. Luckily, your startup…