When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention to your odds of finding it. You just have to find it. It matters not whether your chances are nine in ten or one in a thousand; your task is the same – The hard thing about […]
The death of Convoy has been one of the biggest stories in both tech and freight media over the past week. While the freight market has suffered a number of major shutdowns, few were as sudden as Convoyโs. After all, Yellow was a much bigger company, but it died a very slow death, and because it was a […]
Itโs a Markov Model that breaks down topline metrics into smaller user segments. This was the model that solved a near-fatal problem for Duolingo:โ Their DAU metric was stagnating. They needed to find out how they could refine their focus by optimizing metrics that drive DAU indirectly. Their first step was to classify users into […]
All startups are young upstarts. But not all young upstarts are startups. So think through a few points before you call your new business a startup. In all my time working with startups in various capacities including as a founder, an advisor, a consultant or a mentor to founders I start with asking the following […]
Startup ventures receive a lot of attention. It indeed is glamorous to be running a startup. Or at least it appears so from the outside. Startups are a LOT OF WORK. It takes a lot of perseverance, patience and persistence to take an idea, create a startup and then build a business out of it. […]
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