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Default Alive or Default Dead? Assuming their expenses remain constant and their revenue growth is what it has been over the last several months, do they make it to profitability on the money they have left? Or to put it more dramatically, by default do they live or die? Trevor Blackwell has made a handy calculator you can use to find out. The reason I want to know first whether a startup is default alive or default dead is that the rest of the conversation depends on the answer. If the company is default alive, we can talk about ambitious new things they could do. If it’s default dead, we probably need to talk about how to save it. We know the current trajectory ends badly. How can they get off that trajectory? ...

From Lenny’s Podcast episode: A framework for PM skill development | Vikrama Dhiman (Gojek) Vikrama Dhiman heads all things product at Gojek, including product management, design, program management, and research, across Indonesia, Singapore and India. The 3 W’s framework for PM career growth: What you produce? Start by focusing on your outputs Don‘t lose sight of outputs when you start focusing on outcomes What you bring to the table? Impact through the artifacts that you work on What’s your operating model? Main pillars or axis of knowledge Data and metrics Design and research Technology Strategy Essential skills if you are going from mid-senior to senior level Communication skills Collaboration skills Organizational skills Community skills How to work with others and other stakeholders: ...

Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man. — Aristotle

Why Building a Culture from the Top Down Fails Lack of Employee Buy-In Disconnect from Reality Limited Innovation Reduced Employee Engagement Resistance to Change Lack of Adaptability Erosion of Trust Inequality and Hierarchical Structures One-Size-Fits-All Approach Cultural Mismatch High Turnover A culture that emerges organically from the collective values, beliefs, and behaviors of the workforce is more likely to be embraced, enduring, and aligned with the organization’s objectives.

The Tyranny of the Marginal User - by Ivan Vendrov How is it possible that software gets worse, not better, over time, despite billions of dollars of R&D and rapid progress in tooling and AI? What evil force, more powerful than Innovation and Progress, is at work here? … I call this force the Tyranny of the Marginal User. … a company with a billion-user product doesn’t actually care about its billion existing users. It cares about the marginal user - the billion-plus-first user - … ...

VC funding. Our perspectives on the topic wax and wane […] Source: What I’ve Learned About Venture Funding | Bothsides of the Table

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Everybody’s reachable. (by Gary Vaynerchuk ) Interesting left field concept of each business becoming it’s own media company focused on a collateral subject area their target audience is interested in, and not directly about their core business. You’re in the " media business , legal services" … I’m in the " media business , agency/wine" … ( Source: https://www.youtube.com/ )

The most precious commodity is user time (…) Revenue follows user attention, not the other way around; unlike money, there is a finite amount of minutes in the day, and a finite amount of users. To put it another way, attention is a zero sum game (via Instagram Direct, Twitter DMs, and the Social/Communications Map ) This certainly applies to all ad-based businesses, where volume is key! But there are other ways to build successful businesses though…

(via A VC: The Startup Curve )

À primeira cai quem não sabe, à segunda quem se esquece, à terceira quem merece! Hugo Ferreira (adapted)

Errar e aprender é humano! Só “errar” é como a mosca a bater no vidro… no vidro… no vidro… no vidro…

If you’re the smartest guy in the room, you’re in the wrong room. Fabien Lasserre ( @flhke ) on Twitter