Your Startup Needs a Skunk Works

Stop talking about the future and start figuring it out

Joe Procopio
6 min readFeb 17, 2020

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I love a good skunk works. And I love what they do for my startups.

A skunk works is formed when a company ropes off a portion of its resources to develop a secret or future-facing project. It could be a small full-time team, a dedicated percentage of work time, or just an off-hours…

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Joe Procopio

Multi-exit, multi-failure entrepreneur. NLG pioneer & eService expert. Building TeachingStartup.com & GetSpiffy.com. Uncommon founder. More at joeprocopio.com