Validation
Get the right market signals to make your next product and business decision informed and based on real customer data. Research, experiments, demand tests, AI-enabled workflows.
Vernon Steward · New York
Operator. Builder. Delivering Unique Growth Solutions.
I help companies turn ambiguous opportunities into clear roadmaps, measurable tests, and repeatable commercial models, with 25 years building businesses, digital products, and revenue lines from zero.
About
I grew up in South Africa and Italy and have spent most of the last few decades in New York building products and launching new businesses: from an enterprise innovation lab to multi-million-dollar growth and build studios.
I work best at the front edge of new businesses: the part where the brief is half a page and the answer is somewhere out in the world. I run lean experiments, design operating models, and ship things alongside founders, product teams, and Fortune 500 executives.
Outside work I cook whatever is in the fridge, follow the long-suffering NY Knicks and AS Roma, and speak four languages with varying degrees of conviction.
What I Do
Growth Marketing
Set up your multichannel marketing stack, or audit and optimize what you are running. Connect the data from the top of funnel ads to your backend CRM. Search, Social, S/GEO, Analytics, Content, Email.
Product Development
Design, test, and develop new digital products at AI speed, from UI/UX design through high fidelity prototypes to shipped code, all with built in experiment loops and conversion optimization.
Select Projects
Citi
Citi Ventures
Innovation partner for 9 years delivering 100+ product experiments and demand tests, developing new products and capabilities.
Wire
Wire Network
Led a 12-week incubator program for an emerging blockchain, including content, communication, community, and demo day.
Exelon
Exelon
Incubated an environmental impact startup, product, and app for the largest US utility. Based on traction it was spun out and sold.
Provuu
Provuu
Launched a time-constrained Kickstarter campaign for an AR snow goggle startup: 650% of goal, most successful category campaign ever.
Clorox
Clorox
Developed product innovations, ecommerce MVPs, and demand tests for brands including Glad, Kingsford, and Fresh Step.
Visa
Visa
Ran an international new-product validation test comparing consumer product demand across the US and Asia.
Contact
- vsteward@gmail.com
- linkedin.com/in/vsteward
- Telegram
- @vworld26
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- @vsteward