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  • September 6, 2023

    Minding the Gap : the Case Against Anthropology in Entrepreneurship

    Entrepreneurs aren’t looking to understand the world such as it ‘really is’. They just need to get a good enough grasp of a given context.


  • June 3, 2023

    Making Belief : A Brief History of World Expos

    World expos might have played out their roles today, but historically they’ve had three important functions to fill.


  • May 25, 2023

    Sundar Pichai in da House : Google’s CEO on AI, the Digital Divide and the Future of Robotics

    His soft spoken reflectiveness feels about as far away from your typical tech-bro as is possible to imagine.


  • April 23, 2023

    Two Types of Failure, part II : Process Over Product

    If all you care about is to perfect your process, a great product will eventually follow.


  • April 19, 2023

    Things I Didn’t Know About IP Protection

    Just because it’s patentable doesn’t mean it works.


  • September 15, 2022

    Introducing Straddle, a Framework For Validating Startup Ideas

    A good framework paves a way for the mind, making it easier to grasp a reality which will always remain chaotic in its essence.


  • June 6, 2022

    Disruption Disrupted : How Big Tech Keeps Innovative Startups at Bay

    Everyone who read Clayton Christensen *knows* that startups will eat incumbents for breakfast. That’s why they call it disruption!

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  • May 7, 2022

    The Patron Driven Value Proposition

    Great ideas are often met with fierce resistance and then suddenly become the new norm seemingly over-night.


  • April 30, 2022

    Preparing For the Next War

    Reading Carlota Perez feels like looking at one of those images doctors use to diagnose colour blindness; where before there was just a jumble of dots, patterns emerge.

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  • April 21, 2021

    Girly Stuff

    The system has always worked hard to hide the fact that women are just as brilliantly ingenious innovators as men are.

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  • May 27, 2020

    Sometimes Slowing Down Will Make You Go Faster

    There’s a reason why there’s such a cult around speed in startup culture. Whoever reaches the market first has a huge advantage, so you better get there before your competitors do, because the first mover advantage often eclipses the importance of who has the best product.


  • May 21, 2020

    Where Is This Road Taking Us?

    Queues are the Viet Cong of software engineering; the asymmetrical threat you can’t predict.


  • May 14, 2020

    Product Spells D-E-V-I-C-E + S-E-R-V-I-C-E

    Segmentation is marketing’s most discussed and least understood concept. 

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  • May 6, 2020

    Customer Value as North Star

    Just because you’re metric driven, doesn’t mean you’re going in the right direction.


  • April 28, 2020

    Take Me to the Moon

    Communicating what you want done is the essence of product management, but finding the right level of abstraction can be hard.

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