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April 9, 2021

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Low Code / No Code

For 10,000 years people were their own boss. The industrial era changed that with most people now working for someone else. The no code / low code era will unwind that and mint millions of entrepreneurs.

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March 29, 2021

Gagan Biyani - Lessons learned traveling, the future of online education, and finding hidden talent

Gagan Biyani is a serial entrepreneur building online education companies. He previously co-founded Udemy, one of the largest online learning marketplaces in the world, and is back at it again with a new cohort-based online learning company.

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April 19, 2021

A Simple Tool For Managing Executives As A First-Time CEO

When a startup has enough momentum to raise enough capital ($15–20M in the bank), they eventually reach a phase in their journey where they need to hire and onboard their first executives and build an executive team. That’s usually when they have tens of millions in capital and the founder needs to offload responsibilities to functional experts, such as a VP of Product, Engineering, Operations, Sales, and so on.

April 5, 2021

Joining Unusual Ventures As A Partner

I’m excited to announce that I’ll be joining Unusual Ventures as Partner, where I’ll be using my expertise in growth and product to invest in and scale the next generation of great consumer products.

April 5, 2021

A Post Mortem On Growth Hacking

Growth Hacking is declining in relevance. Will it disappear entirely? I don't think so. Nor do I think it should. But the craze that once drove every startup (even enterprise!) to look for a Growth Hacker is on a steep decline. And I believe that's a good thing.

April 5, 2021

A League Of Its Own: Why I’m Going Long On BallerTV

Each year, hundreds of millions of kids from around the world are introduced to sports. I was one of them starting back in 1988. My life was designed around sports starting at the age of six and continued, without interruption, until I took off to college when I was 18. This level of involvement meant that sports was more than a game I played on nights and weekends.

April 19, 2021

Why Standups Are Useless And How To Run Great Product Team Meetings

The majority of meetings are a waste of time. And in my opinion, one flavor of meeting that tops the charts in uselessness is the “status update” meeting. You know this meeting— the meeting where everyone gets together to share what they’ve been doing. It’s ironic that meetings like this exist because it gets in the way of people actually doing something productive.

April 19, 2021

Be Like In-N-Out

More businesses need to be like Chick-fil-A and In-n-Out. The menu is simple, the service is excellent, and the quality is high. Customers don’t have to learn a new menu each month, smile at apathetic employees, or brood over an incorrectly filled order. For those reasons, customers love them.

April 19, 2021

Flywheels And How To Create Content Communities

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April 19, 2021

What Makes For A Good Product Manager?

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April 5, 2021

Part 4: Product Development For Innovation

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April 5, 2021

Part 2: Designing An Organization That Can Optimize And Innovate

There’s a powerful concept known as “shipping the org chart”. It was brilliantly outlined by Steven Sinofsky in his piece on Functional vs Unit Organizations.

April 5, 2021

Part 1: A Single-Minded Perspective On Growth

“Our industry does not respect tradition— it only respects innovation.”

April 5, 2021

Part 3: Product Development For Optimization

Assuming you’ve determined the right balance of optimization and innovation from the above sections, we can now take a closer look at how to manage an optimization roadmap and pick the “right” experim