Scaffold started because we were tired of watching good ideas die from inaction.
Scaffold is built by MLV (Makers Lab Ventures). Tim (Co-Founder & CFO, Boston College Carroll School of Management '26) and Dylan (Co-Founder) have guided 500+ students across 7 countries — including Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Singapore — generating over $50K in revenue. Speakers from Samsung, Stripe, and OpenAI have joined our programs.
Every year, thousands of college students have startup ideas. They're smart, ambitious, and capable. But most of those ideas never become anything—not because the ideas were bad, but because there was no clear path forward.
The tools that exist assume you already know how to be a founder. ChatGPT gives you a wall of text. Notion gives you a blank page. Neither tells you what to do on Monday morning.
We built Scaffold to be the structure those ideas need. A clear, week-by-week framework that tells you exactly what to do next—and holds you accountable when you don't do it.
Simple beats sophisticated. If you have to explain it, it's too complicated.
A shipped MVP beats a perfect pitch deck. Move forward.
Constraints aren't limiting. They're liberating.