Doing one thing at a time…
This seems counter intuitive at first, but there are plenty of examples of this in action, think serial ports replacing parallel ports, or RISC replacing CISC.
In a lot of business texts, you’ll be advised to work hard. But what does that mean? What is hard work?
It’s not the number of hours you work, but rather the type of work you are doing.
In Hooked it outlines 3 rewards:
Have you ever been in a supermarket, and tried to work out what queue is the fastest?
Wisdom suggests to hire for strength, not lack of weakness. But this means picking only one thing and working hard at it, at the expense of the other things. There is an…
When interviewing customers you are trying to dig down to the emotional, social and functional value and contexts in which they…
For a team to run experiments and create valuable learning from markets they need:
After creating an MVP customers from across the technology adoption lifecycle (TAL) will start to use it. The problem is any…
The problem with beta testing is that is tests a product technically. It provides no information as to market demand or product-market-fit.
If you open the beta and get 10,000 signups what does that mean? How many users would actually pay for the product? As…
Success in a startup is all about searching, finding, and exploiting ephemeral opportunities — Steve Blank
Mission orientated management is all about decentralising decision making so that those with the information to hand can act quickly.
The Technology Adoption Lifecycle identifies psychographic profiles that help you understand the adoption of new innovations.