mikeaorlando.com Michael Orlando
  • Home
  • Start Here
  • About
  • Work & Ventures
  • Ideas & Writing
  • Collaborate
  • Search

○Building Ventures from Scratch

Building Ventures from Scratch

Projects founding and building companies, products, and platforms from zero to market.

Routing Notes

  • Parent Categories
  • Published Apr 26, 2026
  • Signal Working Systems
Preview for Introducing Ventures
✎Ideas & Writing April 24, 2026

Introducing Ventures

What the Ventures taxonomy represents on this site, and how to use it.

read more
◎Capital formation systems April 23, 2026

Capital formation systems

Structures aggregate and allocate financial resources into ventures, projects, and assets.

read more
Preview for Deal Structuring Systems
◎Deal Structuring Systems April 23, 2026

Deal Structuring Systems

Systems define how agreements are formed, how value is split, and how incentives are aligned between parties.

read more
◇Great Data Lake April 23, 2026

Great Data Lake

A data brokerage and value-add business focused on transforming large raw datasets into usable commercial products.

read more
Preview for Lumate AdTrade — Algorithmic Ad Media Trading Platform
▶Lumate AdTrade — Algorithmic Ad Media Trading Platform April 23, 2026

Lumate AdTrade — Algorithmic Ad Media Trading Platform

As co-founder, led a 10-engineer team to build a demand-side and supply-side platform that operated as a real-time market-maker in programmatic advertising —...

read more
◎Real Estate Systems April 23, 2026

Real Estate Systems

Systems manage assets, investments, operations, and reporting across property portfolios.

read more
✎Ideas & Writing April 23, 2026

The Lumate Arc: From Student App Studio to Adtech Venture

A public overview of how Lumate grew out of student projects, became a high-scale mobile advertising platform, hit structural limits, and reshaped what came next.

read more
Preview for Addressing Systemic Overcommitment (and how to work with me)
✎Ideas & Writing March 26, 2026

Addressing Systemic Overcommitment (and how to work with me)

Why overcommitment is a real harm pattern, what I’m doing to fix it, and the operating rules for collaborating with me without recreating the same failure mode.

read more
Preview for The Reboot (and how to work with me through it)
✎Ideas & Writing November 26, 2025

The Reboot (and how to work with me through it)

A sequential plan for moving from cognitive overload to high-impact execution — plus the operating rules for collaborating with me while I do it.

read more
◎Finance/accounting systems July 15, 2025

Finance/accounting systems

Structured recording and reporting frameworks track assets, liabilities, revenue, and compliance across time.

read more
  • ««
  • «
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • »
  • »»

Explore

  • ✎Posts
  • ○Categories
  • ◉Projects for Fun
  • ▶Projects for Work
  • ◎Systems Across Domains
  • ▪Technical Tools
  • ◆Transferable Skills
  • ✕Value Multipliers
  • ◇Ventures

Michael Orlando

Systems, ventures, writing, and public proof arranged so the right people can find the right next step.

© 2026 Michael Orlando

Privacy & Data Handling

about.me Substack Credly Polywork