Startup

How often do you find yourself on a Zoom call, frantically taking notes while also trying to engage and participate? We’re all familiar with that feeling, but there’s often no alternative. Notes matter. For me, that all changed when I met Colin, the CEO and Co-founder of Supernormal. Within seconds…

<Prologue: Seven years ago we decided to build a soccer team from scratch and write about the process of doing so. The club is called Kingston Stockade FC and is located in the Hudson Valley area of NY (2 hours north of NYC). We are an adult men’s amateur soccer…

Traditional product management is useless at early stage. It adds friction, decreases the delivery pace, and reduces impact. But you can adjust that. Product management in pre Product-Market Fit (PMF) is a very little understood concept. Product managers, you are not to blame. You learned your job in post-PMF environments…

The rise of being let go by a computer I heard a rumour that the 12,000 layoffs at Google were decided by an algorithm. Randomly selected. 🤖 Three IC engineers in this team, seven in that 🤖 plucked from the employee database by a roving SQL query. “Before we work on artificial intelligence why don’t we do something about…

Big changes are afoot within Zebras Unite! Exciting changes. Anticipated changes. Unanticipated changes. Growth-inducing changes. Signs-of-maturity changes. — The four of us, Mara Zepeda, Jennifer Brandel, Aniyia Williams, and Astrid Scholz, are the founders (or we call ourselves, the Dazzle Doulas) of the multi-organizational experiment known as Zebras Unite. And we’re excited to share the variety of ways in which we’ve been working to make ourselves obsolete, or…

Who should best teach you a new language? Not a native speaker as they can’t remember what most helped them to learn it. Similarly, this is not written by a Venture Capitalist, but by a startuper. — There is so much information on the internet regarding the topic. If you know the right specific questions to ask. But you don’t, do you? That’s the point. Let me give you an introduction to the subject so that you’d at least have a start.

It is very clear now, that good design, as well as marketing, is not possible without good illustrations. Think Coca-Cola and their polar bears, or Target with their red bullseye (which dates back to the 1970s). …

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