by Dr. Alan Jacobson, Psy.D., MBA | Sep 29, 2026 | Energy
"Dual-use" gets used loosely in energy hard-tech pitches — it often means little more than "this could theoretically also be sold to the military." LiquidPiston's actual history with the Army and Air Force is a useful corrective, because it's not one contract, it's a...
by Dr. Alan Jacobson, Psy.D., MBA | Sep 23, 2026 | Energy
The technical risk in a long-horizon energy company gets modeled, tracked, and discussed constantly. The psychological risk almost never does — and it's just as capable of ending the company. Staying genuinely convicted, clear-headed, and functional through a decade...
by Dr. Alan Jacobson, Psy.D., MBA | Sep 21, 2026 | Housing
"Housing startup" covers two businesses that barely resemble each other. One is asset-light software sitting on top of the existing housing stock — a marketplace, a rental platform, a pricing tool — iterating in weeks and living or dying on user growth and unit...
by Dr. Alan Jacobson, Psy.D., MBA | Sep 17, 2026 | Healthcare
By the time a shift in healthcare is common knowledge — something every investor deck references, every competitor has already repositioned around — the advantage of seeing it early is already gone. Healthcare founders don't need to predict the future. They need a...
by Dr. Alan Jacobson, Psy.D., MBA | Sep 13, 2026 | Energy
A technically sound energy startup can do everything right — real science, real validation, a real path to commercialization — and still die because the capital behind it was never actually built to wait. Energy hard tech runs on a different clock than almost any...
Dr. Alan Jacobson, Psy.D., MBA is a Certified Foresight Practitioner (TFSX) and licensed psychologist with 25+ years of experience, specializing in the psychology of high performance. He advises and invests in founders across four industries — Healthcare, Housing, Energy, and Independent Film — pairing that clinical training with hands-on board, investor, and producer experience.