Chris Dickson, my co-founder, and I share the product role at Parsec. As we got started we tried to employ all of the lessons we’ve learned building other technology companies and products for startups. It was really important to us that we eliminate all of the technical risk as quickly…

Last week, I published a story explaining that the overall picture of the United States is incredibly good on a historical perspective. The Democrats also painted this picture during the convention, and I strongly believe that our Republic continues to reach new heights every year. There’s much to improve, but…

The recent Republican National Convention (RNC) portrayed a very negative version of the current state of the Republic. There are certainly many issues facing the United States — structural underemployment, income inequality, divisive violence — but the truth is, on many counts the country is doing extremely well. I wanted…

This article originally appeared here Amazon Prime Day 2016 is lauded as its “biggest event ever!” on Amazon.com. It’s routinely compared to Black Friday, which is traditionally the biggest shopping day in America. There are some great deals to be found, but as an Amazon Referral business found in 2015…

Originally published here, but making available to others on the internet who don’t follow my blog :). These are my favorite resources on product management, which I’ve used to form the foundation of my product management knowledge. If you want to learn how I apply all of these resources to…

This post was published almost 3 years ago, but I just realized that our domain (getarkad.com) had expired (pouring one out for Arkad tonight). Since we want this to be available for future generations of entrepreneurs, I’m republishing here. We founded Arkad in August 2012 to provide companies with a…

There has been a significant amount of fanfare and concern as the number of private technology startups receiving a valuation over $1 billion (these companies are called “Unicorns”) has eclipsed 100. CB Insights tracks the number of new private companies eclipsing that valuation each year. In 2014, the number of…