Business Building

Culture Eats Strategy: Nucor’s Ken Iverson on Building a Different Kind of Company

Or take HEY. HEY has tens of thousands of paying customers. For us that's a win. For Google/Gmail it would be a huge failure. They need a whole lot more to make something worth it. We need a whole lot less to make it a spectacular success. HEY has tens of thousands of users. Gmail has a billion. So are we "losing" to Gmail? Or are HEY and Gmail... See more

You only compete with one thing

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Because big businesses aren’t built on gimmicks. You can blitz your way through Sand Hill Road and spike up the App Store charts on gimmicks, but you can’t actually use them to replace Gmail, or Salesforce, or Instagram, or Instagram, or Instagram, or Instagram. Even seemingly instant successes can’t become lasting companies without putting in the... See more

Benn Stancil • Why Are We Surprised That Startups Are So Freaking Hard?

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excellence is mundane

Human-Centered Design Dies at Launch

Jesse Weaver uxmag.com

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Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love

Marty Cagan • 9 highlights

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My favorite part of this practice is the last question is “What are we doing wrong?”, followed by a prod similar to “No, really. Something is broken. What is the most broken thing you’ve seen?” Bugs get filed in substantially real time where appropriate.

Patrick McKenzie x.com

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customer obsession in startups

The stages of CEO & how to evolve as your company does:

Alex Lieberman twitter.com

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Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective

Kenneth Stanley • 6 highlights

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How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

Dan Gardner • 4 highlights

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