Bikeshedding

“Number of opinions on a topic is exponentially directly proportional to the triviality of the topic” Source for this blog idea: http://bikeshed.com, I heard about this profound idea from Matt Mullenweg of WordPress fame. Should we use technology X or Y to land the first spaceship carrying humans to Mars? Opinion 1: Yes to X […]

Lessons From People No Smarter Than You

Listen to the audio of this blog. “Don’t take ‘no’ when your gut tells you ‘yes’” James Patterson “Whatever drives us, we all derive happiness from finding purpose. We find joy in thinking, doing and discovering – in improving people’s lives and catalyzing positive change in the world.” Robert Smith “I should have done this […]

Most Important Thing Is To Be Customer Obsessed

“Don’t satisfy the customer, delight the customer” __Jeff Bezos Listen to the blog. What does it mean to be customer obsessed? Give customers what they love and strive to delight them at every touchpoint. It’s that simple, harder in practice. For example, Amazon knew that customers love free delivery, no one likes to pay for […]

WTF is PMF?

MAKE SOMETHING PEOPLE WANT Jessica Livingston “Identifying a compelling value hypothesis is what I call finding product/market fit. A value hypothesis identifies the features you need to build, the audience that’s likely to care, and the business model required to entice a customer to buy your product.” __Andy Rachleff “When a great team meets a […]

Lessons From People No Smarter Than You

“With my dress, I was selling confidence and with its success, I was getting confident. Confidence in what you do is crucial” Diane von Furstenberg “Time to kick people and by “kick” I mean challenge, is when they’re on the way up, to remind them that when you’re growing, make sure your head is not […]

Lessons From People No Smarter Than You

“Business isn’t all that complicated. If someone is out in the desert walking around, they’re going to be thirsty. You just have to ask them what they wan to drink. If you have the humility to listen to other people rather than just hawking stuff, you are going to have a loft of customers” ARTHUR […]

Lessons From People No Smarter Than You

“Most people fail in science because they talk themselves out of doing the experiment. Ideas are dime a dozen. What makes the difference is the execution.” CRAIG VENTER “I arrived in Beijing (1991) – I saw no cars, only bicycles, no tall buildings. The GDP was 4% of what it is today. Nonetheless, we decided […]

Lessons From People No Smarter Than You

“The more you invest in your mission, the more profits your business will produce. We are living proof of this. Not such a bad formula, huh?” DAN GILBERT “I try to be what I really am and not what people would like me to be. There is a certain peace that comes with that. My […]

Lessons From People No Smarter Than You

“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use” __Steve Jobs “When I started Chobani I’d never run a company before and there was no plan, […]