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Published by adil in Entrepreneurship 1 comment
Tweet A lot of things are sort of funny right now with respect to technology entrepreneurship. One of those things is apparently called SoMoLo (or SoLoMo or MoSoLo, depending on who you talk to.) I was talking with a VC friend of mine who brought up the idea of SoMoLo. Oddly, I hadn’t heard of it and asked what it was. He explained it was the convergence between social, mobile and local and that it’s → Read More
Published by adil in Entrepreneurship 1 comment
Tweet I am convinced that entrepreneurship is far from a rational pursuit. I am also pretty sure that I’m not the only person who thinks so. I’ll put it simply: the numbers are stacked WAY UP against you. the personal, professional, emotional, and financial commitments are borderline insane. the ‘expected value’ of the investment is well below zero. In short, there is not very much that’s rational about being an entrepreneur. While I am sure that entrepreneurship → Read More
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Tweet If I were to simplify the world into two types of teams, I’d have to say there are extraordinary teams and then there’s everybody else. If you want to build an extraordinary team, empowerment is a requirement, not an option. Ownership and empowerment Think about the most talented people you know – really high velocity people. Are those the kind of people who can operate in an environment where they have no sense of → Read More
Published by adil in Product Management Reply
Tweet Through a recent newsletter from the Silicon Valley Product Group, I came across a great article by Marty Cagan about, product evangelism, which I see as essentially helping people to imagine the future and inspiring them to help create that future by “selling the dream.” In that piece, Cagan lists his top 10 pieces of advice for product leaders who want to sell the dream: Build a high-fidelity prototype (see Some thoughts on rapid → Read More
Published by adil in Entrepreneurship 1 comment
Tweet The thing that always surprises me is that entrepreneurs are so protective of their ideas. They don’t want to talk about them for fear that you’ll steal their idea and claim it as your own. They won’t give you the time of day unless you agree to sign an NDA or otherwise agree to put yourself in jail and throw away the key. When I encounter people like this, I can’t help but to → Read More
Published by adil in Product Management Reply
Tweet I think it’s surprising, given how critically important product management is to most tech companies, how few people really know anything about it. A lot of companies (including tech companies) either don’t have a Product Management person or the Product Management function doesn’t exist at all. So where should the Product Management function live on the org chart? Obviously, there’s no one-size-fits-all answer. The answer depends on: The type of business. How far along → Read More