About Tacklebox

Entrepreneurship isn’t a skill you’re born with — it’s something you learn over time. Our goal is to give you the tools, frameworks, and skills you need to validate your business idea and bring in revenue, all before you quit your full time job. 

600+

founders have gone through the program

98%

of our founders strongly recommend Tacklebox to a friend

58%

of our founders are female

48%

of our startups are POC-founded

74%

of our founders maintain their full-time jobs during the program

$1B+

in combined total enterprise value

Meet the founder

Brian Scordato

“Hey! Brian here. I founded Tacklebox back in 2015 because I believe that the path from idea to startup for new entrepreneurs is really difficult and…broken. My mission is to maximize your chances of succeeding at making this world a better place with your brilliant idea.”

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Articles
Sell the Position
Sell the Position

This post is about the best lesson I learned this year. And to tell you it, I’ve got to tell you a story…

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A Prime Day Thought (feat. Sharks w/ Lasers)
A Prime Day Thought (feat. Sharks w/ Lasers)

Today is Amazon Prime Day and Amazon Prime Day is made up. It’s not a thing - it doesn’t commemorate anything and neither 21 or 621 are even Prime numbers. I checked.

I have no idea how or why it started but here’s how I imagine that first meeting going:

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Don't Edit Your Deck - Edit Your Investors
Don't Edit Your Deck - Edit Your Investors

Today’s post will help you raise money from non-VCs for your early stage startup. The current approach…

  1. Spend 100 hours on a pitch deck

  2. Send it to lots of people

  3. Hope

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How to Evaluate Startup Opportunities (feat. Math)
How to Evaluate Startup Opportunities (feat. Math)

On my first day at business school I tucked my polo shirt into khaki shorts.

I was 24 and had decided to leave a finance job in NYC to go to UNC Chapel Hill, and despite never having tucked a polo shirt into khaki shorts before, a few happy hours leading up to the first day made it crystal clear that that’s what people did here. Social proof is a hell of a drug. We’ll get back to that.

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Idea to Startup

Idea to Startup is a 20-minute weekly podcast hosted by Tacklebox creator Brian Scordato that helps early-stage entrepreneurs go from zero to one.

Check out the podcast