on the new new thing blockchain stuff could be nothing in production yet two industries where technology “ technology has been massively deflationary in every industry except for two education and healthcare average cost to consumer has gone up over time it makes no sense new new thing because it won’t look like anything we’ve … Read More
Secrets are “I don’t know yet” problems. The answers are known by *somebody*, and you can find them out if you meet enough people. Examples of secrets: how to hire great engineers, what take rate can you justify in a B2B marketplace, how do we make this user experience more beautiful? Some of these are … Read More
A highly influential book for me in designing Automattic was Daniel Pink’s Drive, where he eloquently introduces the three things that really matter in motivating people: mastery, purpose, and autonomy. Mastery is the urge to get better skills. Purpose is the desire to do something that has meaning, that’s bigger than yourself. These first two principles physically co-located companies can be … Read More
Talk about your startup publicly and loudly so people know what you are working on Crawl your personal network for your smartest friends, but after that you need to run a sales process on LinkedIn to get more candidates in the door. Look for potential not experience Running a candidate pipeline takes a lot of … Read More
You start with the basic premise: respecting your reader’s time. Can they find the story somewhere else, and if yes, then WHY should they read you? What makes what you want to publish so special? Remember, readers have a million choices, to find information. They are better equipped than you. So why should they come … Read More
co-founder areas of responsibility from Main Street (Danilo)
How to Tell Your Story: A Simple Framework for Startups by Om Malik— Read on www.slideshare.net/mobile/ommalik/how-to-tell-your-story-a-simple-framework-for-startups-188319803
I’m fascinated by interesting memos written for an internal audience – a company, a campaign or even for the President. Raw, not smoothened over for PR departments, they help shed light on how people really think inside institutions. https://sriramk.com/memos
medium.com By Bruno Bergher|Jun. 26th, 2019 A bottom-up, alignment-oriented approach While a logo might be the most recognizable manifestation of a brand, it’s only one of many. Brands cut across media, and present themselves in colors, shapes, words, sounds, and even smells. That’s because a brand, at it’s core, is immaterial. It’s about abstract attributes and values which present … Read More