Mike Tempest
@miketempest.bsky.social
CTO at Risika, also building my Startup Studio, Elysium Studios. Father of four
2025's biggest shift: non-technical founders are winning.
Small teams armed with AI tools (Cursor, Replit, Lovable) are outperforming big organizations.
5 people now do the work of 50.
The advantage isn't tech anymore—it's speed and customer insight.
Your turn to build.
Small teams armed with AI tools (Cursor, Replit, Lovable) are outperforming big organizations.
5 people now do the work of 50.
The advantage isn't tech anymore—it's speed and customer insight.
Your turn to build.
January 7, 2025 at 10:37 PM
2025's biggest shift: non-technical founders are winning.
Small teams armed with AI tools (Cursor, Replit, Lovable) are outperforming big organizations.
5 people now do the work of 50.
The advantage isn't tech anymore—it's speed and customer insight.
Your turn to build.
Small teams armed with AI tools (Cursor, Replit, Lovable) are outperforming big organizations.
5 people now do the work of 50.
The advantage isn't tech anymore—it's speed and customer insight.
Your turn to build.
Design partners are something that becomes a really strong part of our validation process. How do you all utilise them for your products?
December 20, 2024 at 10:53 AM
Design partners are something that becomes a really strong part of our validation process. How do you all utilise them for your products?
As a part of our studio, we aim to be able to validate ideas insanely fast. We have a five stage procedure that allows us to take ideas and understand their viability very quick.
These are as follows:
1 - Idea Lab
2 - The Feels Test
3 - Let's Get Deeper
4 - Validation 1
5 - Validation 2
These are as follows:
1 - Idea Lab
2 - The Feels Test
3 - Let's Get Deeper
4 - Validation 1
5 - Validation 2
December 12, 2024 at 10:56 AM
As a part of our studio, we aim to be able to validate ideas insanely fast. We have a five stage procedure that allows us to take ideas and understand their viability very quick.
These are as follows:
1 - Idea Lab
2 - The Feels Test
3 - Let's Get Deeper
4 - Validation 1
5 - Validation 2
These are as follows:
1 - Idea Lab
2 - The Feels Test
3 - Let's Get Deeper
4 - Validation 1
5 - Validation 2
Mainly going to use this Bluesky account to talk about building my venture studio Elysium Studios
We are 12 months in now with me being part time, I have an Operations executive. We’re in final validation of one product, we’ve canned three other product ideas, one of those after validation stage
We are 12 months in now with me being part time, I have an Operations executive. We’re in final validation of one product, we’ve canned three other product ideas, one of those after validation stage
December 11, 2024 at 6:20 AM
Mainly going to use this Bluesky account to talk about building my venture studio Elysium Studios
We are 12 months in now with me being part time, I have an Operations executive. We’re in final validation of one product, we’ve canned three other product ideas, one of those after validation stage
We are 12 months in now with me being part time, I have an Operations executive. We’re in final validation of one product, we’ve canned three other product ideas, one of those after validation stage