For any software business, the online signup is the lifeblood of customer acquisition. The new tooling available to developers makes it easy to build and…
I stumbled on the questions I wrote about last week circa 2013-14. Fresh from our first round of funding (Series A to fund EZ Texting's acquisition), I…
The best managers are superb capital allocators. They take expensive investor money and assign it to the proper growth initiatives. Accountability for a team or…
Building a shared sense of purpose is easy when the company is young. There is plenty of work to do and not enough people to…
At 75 books read a year, Stephen King considers himself a slow reader. By his scale, my reading speed would be closer to a sloth.…
Once it has won over the geeks and early adopters, new technology needs to win the heart of the everyday user. You do that by…
Smart founders are comfortable with perpetual ignorance and combat it with tireless learning. The preceding Twitter-friendly headline would aptly summarize this article, but outside of…
All Founders are arrogant. How's that for a polarizing statement? If you're a founder and disagree, it means you haven't been rejected, denied, denigrated, ghosted,…
A startup, like any risky endeavor, requires the persistence of a punch-me doll. As long as a Founder is a principal in the company, they…
Step 1: Don't be like Steve Jobs. Down Memory Lane The first iPhone came out in 2007. Whether or not you were part of the…
If a product is only as good as its feedback loops, then only the feedback of the customer matters. There will be many stakeholders, but…
Building a culture of belonging in a company is hard. Stanford's Huggy Rao says that the best cultures create a sense of mutual ownership, where "I own…