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What does it take to build a great product? Craft the book, tries to answer that question in ten short easy to read conversational chapters. A product is the sum total of the experiences it represents. How it makes our customers feel when they see it for the first time, when they are introduced to it, when they use it, when it does what it is supposed to and when it doesn’t. In Zen and the art...
Craft. Ideas are easy, products hard.The search for great products
In search of the X factor that makes products great. Process? Mindset? Both?
A look through nuances of personas, segment and feature selection, trials, conversions, validation, traction, scale and product market fit.
From one builder to another.
Craft. Ideas are easy, products hard.The search for great products
Writers write, sprinters sprint, founders fail.
Failure is our most common outcome as builders. In 2001, in the days of Blue Screen of Death, I ran into a personalized edition of the screen.
Reboot is my story.
Reboot. 3rd Edition. A founder story.A time capsule from 1999. From the days of BSoD
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So many similarities between how hard things were for founders in July 2001. And how hard they are in July 2024. The mistakes we made then and the mistakes we make now. Like worshiping the altar of the bleeding edge in our space. Whatever that edge or that space maybe. Or trying to shoot the biggest elephants in the room, all at once. Or chasing perfection, scale and features. Not understanding...
Reboot. 3rd Edition. A founder story.A time capsule from 1999. From the days of BSoD
In the end financials models we build for our startups represent the journey's we seek. What do you seek?
A serial founder deconstructs the logic behind numbers required to make a business work for fellow founders and startups.
Founder Puzzles, Revised EditionBuilding better financial models for founders