Your Book, Now Interactive

Being a Techstars mentor was an honor and a joy.

I loved working through hard problems with ambitious founders trying to get their startups to the next level.

Unfortunately, life got busy, and I had to start turning down opportunities to join various programs. This was one of the inspirations behind writing my book, Save Your Startup. I wanted to take the best advice and war stories that I had shared over the years and turn them into actionable playbooks.

It’s been super helpful to me. I can now tell people to check out playbook X in chapter Y because it’s exactly what they need for their current problem/opportunity.

Unfortunately, that’s still a lot of work for the founder. And nothing is as powerful as a dialogue with the author.

Enter, AI Skills

I’ve now converted some of the top playbooks from Save Your Startup into Claude Code Skills (available here).

What the heck does that mean?

It means the exercises in my book are now interactive.

Before: you read the section and follow the steps.

Now: you trigger the skill and enter an interactive dialogue (powered by AI).

It’s quite profound. I’ve been using Tim Ferriss’ “Fear Setting” and Brene Brown’s “Painting Done” exercises for years, but it’s sometimes hard to do them without an external sparring partner. Now Claude adopts a clone of me (in my style, tone, etc) and coaches me through it.

This skill pack can do the same for you.

And if you’re an author with a book, you can convert it into interactive content too.