“If you have to ask whether you have Product-Market Fit, the answer is simple: you don't.” - Eric Ries I don’t like this sentence because...

Stuff that most people get mostly wrong about startup ideas, brought to you in a bizarre Q&A format. What’s the #1 thing people get wrong...

When one of the best violinists in the world wears dirty clothes and plays in a DC subway station nobody stops to listen. In the fancy...

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision. – Winston Churchill Every great product leader I have worked with is fearless. Whether it’s a...

Every so often your startup will grab you by the throat and drag you into a tough, complex, or plainly weird corner. When that happens I...

The greatest double-edged sword of startups is momentum. Very little can stop you when you have it. Very little can prevent your death...

Aside from viruses being super annoying the pandemic taught us two things: no one can predict the truths of the future and some truths...

Product value doesn’t guarantee product adoption. Not in B2B. We built a valuable product, sold it to excited customers, and watched the...

You can do anything, but not everything - David Allen Flow, or "being in the zone", is one of the best feelings in the world. No one can...

We’ve spent 2 years brainstorming startup ideas and another 2 working on a bad one. All in all, It took us 4 years to find a successful...

My wife and I are walking into a house showing. It takes me less than a minute to decide that it is the right house for us. We spend the...

It’s March 18th 2020. San Francisco is going under lockdown in a few hours. The last flight to Orange County has 3 passengers on it--I’m...

I made my team waste two years of their lives building and refining the wrong product. Yes, we had a good time and we learned a few...