mpower.network

The answer is
already in the
room. Get in it.

We grow the next stage of startups, SMBs, and enterprise teams through story, mentorship, and the resources founders actually need to break out.

  • Story
  • Mentors
  • Resources
  • Education
  • Community
The problem

Most founders are building on an island.

You're cut off from the people, the capital, and the talent your growth depends on. You do the work of ten. And the gap between where you are and where you swore you'd be keeps widening while you're too busy to notice.

Nobody tells you the fix is usually sitting inside someone else's head, three tables away.

MPower closes that gap. Story, mentors, and resources, on a rhythm you can plan around.

The evidence

The odds are public, and they are bad.

This is not a feeling about how hard building is. It is the failure data, and it has barely moved in thirty years.

20.4%

of new U.S. businesses fail within their first year.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024
~50%

are gone by year five. Survival is a coin flip.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024
43%

of shutdowns trace back to the wrong product for the market.

CB Insights, 2026

Almost every reason on that list is a judgement call, and judgement is the one thing that transfers between people in a conversation. That is the whole argument for building rooms.

Read the thesis

What we doFive things

Five ways we get you off the island.

01

Story

Your work stays invisible until someone tells it properly.

02

Mentors

Someone has already solved your problem. We make the introduction.

03

Resources

Capital, tools, talent. The unfair advantages.

04

Education

Tactics you can use on Monday morning.

05

Community

A monthly table of people who get it.

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
African proverb
MPower StudiosPodcast

Stories, on the record.

Long-form conversations with founders who've been through the part everyone else skips.

All episodes →

On the groundMeetups

Coffee first. Empire later.

Aug 29Saturday · 2026
10 AM – 12:30 PM

Dallas

Plug and Play Frisco Space
3800 Gaylord Parkway, Suite 1050, Frisco, TX 75034

Sep 4Friday · 2026
10 AM – 12:30 PM

Cedar Park, Austin

Cedar Park City Hall, Multi-Purpose Room
450 Cypress Creek Road, Building 3, Cedar Park, TX 78613

All events →

The writing

Two streams.

Long read

MPower Deep Dives

Long-form profiles of founders worth studying, and what they did that you can steal.

Short read

MPower Bytes

Three sharp paragraphs on one company you should know about.

Where we are

Two cities, running now.

Founder Sessions run in Dallas and Austin. Chicago and Abu Dhabi are being built next.

Open rolesHiring 3

Build MPower with us.

01

Full-Time Editor

Turn raw founder footage into stories people can't scroll past. Full-time

02

Event Coordinator

Own the room, every city, every month. Austin / Dallas

03

VC-Fund Consultant

Make founders fundable, then help them get funded. Contract

All openings →

Your seat is open

Stop building on an island.

Free to join. Show up to a meetup, get on the list, or send us what you're building.

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