The founder’s mindset (and why it matters when you work with me)
What I mean by “founder mindset,” why it’s valuable, and the receipts across my ventures that show I’ve run the full business cycle — repeatedly.
Interdisciplinary Design Collaborative (IDC) was a student-built LLC and incubator at Missouri S&T, formed in 2008. The purpose was to execute: bring interdisciplinary talent together, evaluate ideas, win grants, build prototypes, and ship real work.
If you want the longer origin story (especially the non-mobile era), read: Interdisciplinary Design Collaborative (IDC): the student-run incubator that seeded everything.
What makes IDC important in the venture map is that it became the root system for many later ventures. The non-mobile incubator practices — matrix teams, proposal and grant work, campus partnerships, portfolio thinking, and shared services — became the reusable template that later showed up in IDC Projects, Lumate, PulaCloud, Great Data Lake, and eventually AspirationalX.
If you are trying to understand the “why does this portfolio have this shape?” question, IDC is the first place the operating pattern became explicit.
IDC Projects: the student-run mobile app and game studio
How IDC Projects shipped 25+ mobile apps, built Memory Matches into a $1M+ franchise, and became the product-and-data engine that eventually grew into Lumate.
Interdisciplinary Design Collaborative (IDC): the student-run incubator that seeded everything
How a student-run LLC at Missouri S&T became my first real operating system for shipping interdisciplinary work — years before Lumate.
Interdisciplinary Design Collaborative (IDC) — Student Business Incubator
Before accelerators were a category, IDC was a student-run LLC that engaged over 100 students from Missouri S&T to evaluate thousands of business ideas, build...