Category: Business
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2022 Predictions
2022 Predictions I’m joining in on the predictions fun, and offering some of my predictions for 2022. I find predictions are most interesting if they have some objective measure associated with them to avoid the “this kind of happened” moment when looking back. I tried to provide predictions with some type of observable, measurable outcome…
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Electronic Objects and the future of the web
Sometimes the device is dumb glass, driven by the cloud. And sometime the cloud is dumb storage, driven by the device. — Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) May 27, 2014 I’ve been having the ‘dumb glass or smart device’ conversation with a number of friends lately, and everyone seems to have a really strong opinion on this…
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This Week – 01.13.13
– CES was this past week and everyone already wrote about it, streamed it and talked about it. I liked Tomasz Tunguz’s summary – it’s short but insightful. Read it if you’re looking for a quick recap of what happened and what to look out for in the next year. Link – Someone hacked Snapchat…
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Managing Startups: Objective-Key-Results (OKRs)
Having spent the past year working with and incredible team on a product I love, I thought I’d share a management tool that we adopted from Google called Objective-Key-Results (OKRs). OKRs are a quarterly panning tool that help you and your team focus priorities and align around a common set of objectives. Before I lay…
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Want To Work in Startups? Go Work For The Man First
I had an economics professor who used to talk about the value of unique skills as a competitive advantage. He would use Kobe Bryant as a metaphor, saying “The Lakers pay Kobe Bryant because there are very, very few people who can do what Kobe Bryant does”. I’ve been reflecting on that in terms of my…
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Being Fair With Equity
I met with a friend last night who is considering a role in a pre-Seed stage startup that she was excited about. She had a lot of great questions about how she should structure a negotiation for coming on board. I gave her the answers I had from my experience, but wanted to dig into…
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Analytics Won’t Get You To Product Market Fit
In the new world of big data, everyone in the startup community seems obsessed with collecting data and making data-driven decisions. For the most part, this is a healthy obsession. New analytics platforms like KISS, Mixpanel and Localytics are providing great tools for product managers and marketers to better understand what’s happening inside their apps…
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Get An MBA, But Not Until You’re Useful
As an MBA working in early stage tech, I’m ambivalent about the current conversation in the community about the value of these degrees. On one hand, I’ve met enough MBA founding teams to understand where the vitriol comes from, but I also believe that my graduate business education has been the most rewarding investment I’ve…
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Don’t Be Busy (self-help post)
I’ve had a pretty full calendar lately. I’ve been trying to accomplish a number of important goals since this year started, both personal and professional, and I’m finding that my to-do list is spiraling out of control. One of the things I learned to do in graduate school was focus on the important things on…
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Content Is King Again
The never-ending power struggle between content and distribution seems to be writing a new chapter around the film and tv worlds. Some very big things have already happened in the first quarter of this year in the media business. These are just a few happenings that have rocked the media biz recently: – Comcast speeds the…
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