Chris Burgess

I outline how to turn fragmented product, market, and technical work into a clear, credible narrative for grants and early stage investors.

How to change how engineering thinks about what it is building By Chris Burgess. When I started working with the company, nothing was broken. This was a full-stack hardware and software system, and the technology worked. A camera was pushing live video in conditions where most systems would fail. Configuration tooling made it possible to tune performance quickly. From an engineering perspective, progress was clear. The problem was not whether the system worked. It was whether anyone could...

How to make assumptions explicit and shared so that validation, market exploration, and strategy are easier By Chris Burgess You hear a lot about building products by solving problems. But what happens when the product already exists and you now need to validate it? This is the situation many companies find themselves in, especially those moving from projects to products. Products are always built in response to a perceived problem, whether that problem has been made explicit or not. The...