Every company faces some version of the “cold start problem”: How do you get started from nothing? How do you acquire customers? How do you create network effects — where your product or service becomes more valuable to its users as more people use it — that create incentives for even more customers to sign up?

If you are building, build with intention. And consistently push your vision and why. MINDSHARE is the biggest KPI in this space, and it's becoming increasingly competitive for it.

Jesper Kouthoofd envisioned living in a one-room apartment without any ­money. But life wanted something different for the Swedish ad-man and ­founder of ­music-tech company Teenage Engineering. We were granted an exclusive ­audience in Kouthoofd’s 18th-century house in Stockholm.

Swipe is an ongoing series created artificially by Felipe Rocha as part of our research on A.I. generated images at PORTO ROCHA. While we are confident A.I. won't fully replace art or image making, we are intrigued by its creative potential as it continues to reshape our industry.

Product strategy is the process of defining what you want to achieve and how you plan to get there.

Turn academic papers into AI-generated audio discussions

Two months ago I started a design-as-a-service startup that grew to $15k/month and I thought it was time to sum up my learnings in a post and help fellow redditors out here. Basically this posts contains all the learnings and steps I wished I had known before I started.

“In a world with scarce attention and many choices, taste sets a business apart. Knowing what to make is as important as the ability to make it.”