In 2014, Brad Feld published a very heartfelt blog post on depression in startups called Founder…
Let’s talk about platforms.
The word “platform” doesn’t just mean “an ambitious product” — products and platforms differ, not merely by degree, but by kind.
When someone makes a product, they go after product-market fit: they do lots of…
Alone in Athlone
People write a lot about the emotional rollercoaster of startups. Turns out, that roller coaster doesn’t slow down after year…
Keen IO Mission & Values
Hi, I’m Michelle. I recently (in 2012) left my job as a technical consulting manager and joined my best friends and my fiancé, Kyle, at Keen IO (I wrote about that here). This is the story of how I negotiated my compensation.
A few months back our CTO Dan was so stressed out dealing with a scaling issue that he started to look green in the face.
He wrote a great post about that outage, and it inspired me to talk to a bunch of other CTOs and find out what is keeping them up at night. I…