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We all know that feeling of belonging to something — comfort, happiness, peace. It feels like magic being in your place with your people and being able to play your role in the glue that holds that space together. Many communities capture these ephemeral, magical moments of the human condition and turn them into lasting, life-changing... See more

Jim Cramer, who coined the “FANG” acronym as a descriptor for the high-flying Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google group of tech stocks that have dramatically outperformed the market, made clear yesterday that his endorsement wasn’t necessarily connected to the underlying companies:A note on these stocks. I picked them largely because over the... See more

The Four Fits ModelThis model serves as a tool to define the most important questions and hypotheses you have to answer when thinking from first principles about your growth strategy.Market-Product Fit: What problem are you solving? Whom does it solve for? And what are potential solutions?Product-Channel Fit: What are one or two distribution and... See more

I like to say that I write about media generally and journalism specifically because the industry is a canary in the coal mine when it comes to the impact of the Internet: text shifted from newsprint to the web seamlessly, completely upending the industry’s business model along the way.Of course I have a vested interest in this shift: for better or... See more

The potential for Web3 tech is evolving at a fast pace, but the adoption is still pretty small compared to the number of global internet users. At M25, we started to dig into current use cases and opportunities as we began to spend time with various projects in the Midwest. To better understand the ecosystem, I have broken down the current Web3 use... See more