Entrepreneurship

Illustrated Wisdom For The Middle: A Collaboration With Jessica Hische

Excited to launch a…

Longer-Term Outlook: 8 Forecasts For The Future

Crafting Product In The Messy Middle

Products aren’t designed and developed in a vacuum. On the contrary, they are crafted and…

Navigating The Messy Middle

I’m excited and super-f’n-anxious to share a 5+ year obsession/project…

Attack Of The Micro Brands

In just ten minutes or so scrolling on Instagram, I counted over a dozen brands I had never heard of selling a product that caught my eye. There are so many direct-to-consumer brands we’ve never heard of these days, and I’ve patronized more than I care to admit.

Notifications: A Tragedy Of the Digital Commons

The Right Customers At The Right Time

I’ve had some discussions lately with teams at different stages of their journey about their “ideal customer.” The old “take any customer you can get” adage is short-sighted, because the customers you have at different stages of your business impact how your…

Don’t Get Trampled: The Puzzle For “Unicorn” Employees

As a product-obsessed entrepreneur and investor, I rarely focus on financing mechanics in the start-up world. It tends to be a binary outcome, and people should join a venture for the team and mission more than anything else. However…

Five Forecasts For The Future

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…

The First 15 Seconds

How do you build a product that engages a user quickly enough to engage them over…