Peripheral Vision And The Business You Are (Really) In

Today change, disruption and opportunities happens at the edges. Companies typically don’t get disrupted in the core of their competencies but from left field. Hotel chains don’t get killed by other hotel chains but by AirBnB. Camera…

Companies Are Teams, Not Families

One of the things you hear founders say regularly is: “We are one big family here at XYZ.”

It’s an odd thing to say.

I get where it comes from — what the founder wants to say is that she cares deeply about her team.

Know Your Sweetspot (And Act Accordingly)

Most people have a specific sweet spot when it comes to factors such as the size of the company they work at, the type of work they engage in, the level of support infrastructure they need/want (or don’t) and many other aspects of their work life.

Life Is Better With Friends

Being an entrepreneur can be a lonely endeavor. You might not have a network of people with whom you can be real. Or you might miss folks who are going through the same stuff as you do — and with whom you can share both your successes and failures. And as generally speaking most…

Orders of Magnitude

Having been part of a series of companies which went through pretty substantial growth spurts (from eBay to Mozilla to Singularity University), I have had the great fortune of not only seeing and learning what works, but also observe what doesn’t.

Digitization Creates Abundance

When a technology becomes digitized two interesting things happen: (1) The technology starts to move on an exponential curve. And (2) what has been a scarce resource in the past, becomes abundantly available — as the cost of duplication/replication and distribution drop…

Change

Change. We all strive toward changing the industry we are in, the way people use a product or service, the frame people hold in their heads, the lens through which they see the world, the way they interact, play, work.