How to Work with Designers

A Cheat Sheet for Engineers and PMs

Get One Thing Right

How Bonobos Got Started

Dear Dumb VC

I would say you know who you are, but by definition you don’t. After all, the average person thinks they are an above average driver.

All the Startup Advice You Read Is Wrong

But you should read some anyway

Don’t Be a Gatekeeper

If you are somebody with an incredible amount of passion for high quality, you may be compelled to become a gatekeeper…

10 commercially successful open source hardware projects in 2013

When to Sell Your Company

On October 30, 2008, I wrote an email to Twitter’s board of directors, which started:

It seems to me, there are three reasons to sell a company. Any of them will suffice:

The Leverage of Being a Good Person

Relationships are leverage. If you give value to someone else first, you have leverage. It’s as…

What is strategy?

The practice of figuring out the best way to get from here to there

Leaving the Matrix

Take your seat and enjoy the ride…

“This is your last chance. After this…