Should Your Startup Take a Moonshot?
The moonshot is the purported antidote to incrementalism. It is about great aspirations and what happens when smart people do not worry about what’s possible today. To get to the…
The moonshot is the purported antidote to incrementalism. It is about great aspirations and what happens when smart people do not worry about what’s possible today. To get to the…
One of our generally mild-mannered beta customers caught me by surprise recently when he said, “Scrum zealots are like vegans and barefoot runners who keep trying to convert me.”…
How many meetings have you left asking yourself “what did that relate to?” or “what was that decision based on?” Aligning the “whats” and “hows” of business to the “whys” is…
If your goal is great customer feedback during beta, people actually need to use it, and that means they need to sacrifice to make the time. And people only sacrifice if what is…
Have you seen the movie the Graduate? While in 1967, plastics might have looked like the future, it’s clear more than 40 years later that software is having the greatest…
I judge every day in a binary way — did we incrementally add to the value of the company or didn’t we. I feel accomplished when we step forward and eager for the next day when we…
The MVP is a curse for ambitious technology companies that want to grow. You should be thinking about what it will take for customers to love you, not tolerate you.
You are lucky to be reading this. And I am even luckier to have written it. That is because we both are alive with a realistic chance to change the course of history.
Every summer since college I have gone backpacking with a group of friends. I organize the trip and we typically are drawn to the High Sierras.