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An MBA In Marketplaces, And Early-Stage Investing

An MBA on VCs, Marketplaces, And Early-Stage Investing

Mochary Method Curriculum After reading a sub-doc, please write on this main doc your answers to the following questions: Does it resonate, yes or no? What questions or comments do you have about this writing? Will you apply it? If yes, exactly what actions will you take? First-time Onboard...

Alone in my car, I screamed “no!” out loud as Colleen told Michele that, just as she was approaching the milestone of 100 trial signups for her new Sa

“Just win baby.” —Al Davis This post is dedicated to the late Al Davis. Rest in peace. Back in the bad old days when I was running Loudcloud, I thought to myself: how could I have possibly prepared for this? …

Originally sent as a private note to portfolio companies: PDF Founders, In the first 2 months of 2021, crypto prices have already doubled and continue to hit new all-time highs. Bitcoin has

The memo below was sent to the team at Tiny Speck, the makers of Slack, on July 31st, 2013. It had been a little under seven months since…

In my writing on technology and culture I try to be judicious about citing scientific studies. The issues involved in our ongoing wrangling with digital innovations are subtle and often deeply human. Attempts to exactly quantify what we're gaining and losing through our screens can at times feel disconcertedly sterile. All that being said, however,

What I learned building an eight-figure candle business

Some time ago my friend (and co-investor in Clio , Jobber and Unbounce ) Boris Wertz wrote a great blog post about "the only 2 ways to bui...

When I was in college I took two intro economics courses: macroeconomics and microeconomics. Macro was full of theories like “low unemployment causes inflation” that never quite stood u…

Marketers love to price below a round number (e.g., $49.95). But these "charm prices" aren't always effective.

This is an internet re-post of a piece by Bryan Goldberg that is no longer available online. - by Bryan Goldberg About a year ago, my sales operations

So I saw this tweet by Semil Shah yesterday: So I clicked on the link to my Competing To Win Deals post, which I wrote in 2010, and read it. I often read things I wrote a decade or more ago and cringe at how out of date they have become. Not this one. It […]

I’ve been working on side projects for my entire career. Inspired by Indie Hackers, and people like Daniel Vasallo, I wanted to get more than one income...

In my last article I provided an overview of the six major models of Product Ops that I have encountered (thus far), and I shared my views on each.  But while I highlighted the models that I consider dangerous or harmful, I didn’t elaborate on the root cause of the harmful models. In this article […]

That we manage all our programming projects in Basecamp is perhaps an obvious admission since its our own product. But it's less obvious to some how that's possible, given the apparent lack of affordances to tie todos, messages, or check-ins together with code commits automatically. Some teams who are Basecamp curious can't seem get ov...

Robert Townsend, chief executive of Avis, knew his 1962 ad campaign was going to be a big risk. Avis turned a $3.2m loss into a $1.2m profit.

How Twitter got its first 1000 users

The most common mistake people make when evaluating new technologies is to focus too much on how they improve existing use cases.

In addition to being a friend and a Noahpinion subscriber, Patrick Collison is one of the world’s most successful founder-CEOs. Along with his co-founder and brother John, he built online payments company Stripe into a $36 billion behemoth in a decade. (Patrick and John hail from Ireland, continuing the hallowed tradition of Irish immigrants making it big in America.)

We need to design a system that embraces this technological future and taxes the assets that will make up most of the value in that world–companies and land–in order to fairly distribute some of the coming wealth.

Key Takeaways: From 2008: “Amazon’s real business down the line will be its cloud services. Amazon will be like a book store that serves cocaine out the back door. Books will just be a front to sell storage and cloud computing [Insert Evil Laugh]” – Jeff Bezos All companies want to get from idea to […]

The Rich Barton Playbook for winning markets through Data Content Loops Preface: This is part of a longer private memo analyzing Zillow and its recent shift towards Opendoor’s model. May publish rest of memo at some later point. But wanted to share first part, on Rich Barton and Zillow’s initial rise. Have had many recent … Continue reading Making Uncommon Knowledge Common →