As leaders become immersed in their products, they become more focused on the users they have and less on those they don’t.
Every now and then, it’s a fun and healthy challenge to think distantly. Sure, we already expect self-driving cars, wearable hardware, a connected home, and augmented reality. But where does the foreseeable future take us next? I’m talking more Black Mirror than investor…
Leaders who can’t make tough decisions cause teams to accumulate “organizational debt.” Steve Blank, who first coined the term, described how “all the compromises made to ‘just get it done’ in the early stages of a startup…can turn a growing company into a chaotic nightmare.”…
Talk to any brilliant creative about their life leading up to their success and you’ll discover some messy stuff. The role of conflict — conflict with others and conflict within — is especially evident when you examine the inflection points in creative careers.
While the starts and finishes of a venture get all the headlines, the journey in-between is largely undocumented. It’s mostly a struggle with anonymity, uncertainty, and self-doubt, but there are moments that make it all worth it.
Timing is the factor that is most absent in conversations I have with investors, with other leaders of products…
I don’t throw salt over my shoulder, and I am by no means particularly superstitious or religious. But I’ve had a peculiar affair with the number 18 for much of my life, and figured I’d share some thoughts on why we look for signs of luck and how they help us.
