We know this to be true. The grass is greener on the other side, you always think you could’ve done X if you weren’t doing Y etc etc. Opportunity cost is real, but for some reason we tend to ignore it when estimating possibilities. I’ve seen this at Google. People…

Best of TT — Why would anyone use it? Simple, to find a sound that they forgot about and really want. We point them to it on the app directly — Literally, scrap TT video and comments and host them sepearately. Let them come after me. — TT growth platform …

You’ll end up negotiating anyway. You are probably in one now. You just dont know it. The reality is most relations in starup land are negotiation. That is it. Its about how strong your hand is any instant. Raising funds? Negotiate. Hiring top talen(really, any talent)? Negotiate Retaining talent? Negotiate…

Delegating to success It started as a must have thing. I had constraints I could not work around, namely immigration. Its black and white. So, it started. It started with Trust. Trust that this model can work. It has to. It has for others. Then, 2+2 = 5 model. What if, you could…

Had a recent epiphany that feels particularly interesting, and useful. “I realized shipping product is essentially an exercise in entropy minimization.” Entropy is classically described as Chaos or measure of disorder in a system. Its used as a gauge of randomness too sometimes. In layman’s terms, entropy measures in how many different possible ways you could configure your physical system, such…

For new user growth Follow for follow : When you want quality and on target lists of users Do x to earn y : When CPA online > labor arb. E.g., CB’s Earn rewards for watching videos Community building: When a long term community is what is needed to succeed Invite codes: Easy to…

There are only three basic techniques of approach product planning. They cover almost all the key scenarios. Clearly, between them, they have several variations and branches but the high-level concepts are almost invariable unless you are doing something completely off the reservation(which I recommend you do if possible!) Top down …

I’ve lived through these patterns in enough companies that I felt compelled to write this. Its one of those rare things that I have observed are size invariant: an early stage startup is just as vulnerable to this as a public company is. Its the following: Leaders at several companies…

Quietly, theres been a renaissance over the last few years. A dozen startups have come up with a ‘Notebook’ offering for specific industries. But heres the problem — they aren’t specific enough. It started with Jupyter I like to think, for the Data Science community. They keep coming out. I…