Know your value · Articulate your opportunity · Drive your outcome.
Develop the fluency to represent your company’s value and opportunity with certainty, so you can negotiate your future on your own terms.
This isn’t a course, and you don’t come to learn in the abstract. You work on your own company: your real numbers, your real value, your real opportunities and the actual conversations in front of you. Everything you build here, you build to use.
The founders who have this don’t brace for the conversation that decides everything. They walk in ready to set the terms.
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This isn’t access you rent. It’s a capability you keep. You don’t leave depending on someone in your corner. You leave able to do it yourself, in every conversation that matters, long after the Lab is complete.
A Capability You Keep.
Applied, Not Theory.
I Crossed the Floor.
I spent a career on the other side of the table, reading and representing what companies were worth to the people who decide. I know what makes a founder’s value and opportunity land, and what gets it discounted.
From my playbook to your hands. The advantage that used to sit on their side of the table.
THE PROCESS
We start inside your company: the real numbers, the value, the opportunities and the actual conversations in front of you. Not a case study. Yours.
You learn to translate what your company is worth into the opportunity it represents, in words that land with whoever’s across the table: the investor, buyer, banker, partner or successor. They see the opportunity you articulate, not the potential you hope they’ll see.
This is where the gap closes. When the person across the table sees the value and believes in the opportunity the way you do, you turn what you know into negotiating power. You deal from strength, hold your value under pressure and set the terms. You drive the outcome you came for.
Together we find the strength in what you’ve built. You come out owning what your company is worth, what the numbers mean, why they matter, and the case they make. You're able to hold that position when the number is challenged.
You don’t leave with notes. You leave with Your founder case: your value, your opportunity and the case for where you’re going, distilled into language you can own and use when it matters. It’s the case only you can make, built from your company, your numbers and your future, ready for the investor, buyer, banker, partner, board or successor across the table. Yours to own. Yours to make. Yours to use.
— David, B2B Industrial Products · Denver, CO