Brian Scordato



Founder,
Tacklebox Accelerator

Great startups often come from founders who had their idea while working a separate job. In this class, youll develop a clear, 30-day roadmap to evaluate your potential startup idea without quitting your job. Along the way, youll learn how to drastically mitigate the risks involved in pursuing your idea and put yourself in the best possible position to succeed.

• Identify a few core hypotheses, then create a minimum viable product that cheaply and quickly validates or disproves these hypotheses.


• Learn how to evaluate product/market fit and create personas to represent core customer segments.


• Define goal-oriented milestones that include solving a specific problem, acquiring customers, testing hypotheses, defining success, and eventually building a team and understanding funding needs.


• Make an informed go / no go decision on your startup idea.

Brian Scordato

Founder,
Tacklebox Accelerator

Brian Scordato is currently the founder of Tacklebox Accelerator, a 5-week "pre-accelerator" program for people with full-time jobs looking to transition into launching and running their startup idea full-time in NYC. Formerly, Brian founded 3 funded startups, most recently the mobile dating app Find Your Lobster. He's consulted for numerous startups, spent time on the investing side of the business at Johnson & Johnson's internal Venture Capital arm JJDC, and acts as an advisor for three startups. Brian has an MBA from UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School and a BA in Economics from Union College. He lives in NYC and is a triathlete.