Danielle Vermeer

One of the biggest motivators we observe is the power of subcultural capital - or what we call the “hipster incentive”. It’s an important interpretation of Bordieau’s work on the value of cultural capital in defining our position within society -- the hipster incentive is grounded in our need for status or social capital.

The various leading indicators fit into three categories: 1. Network density: friend or following connections made in a time frame 2. Content added: files added to a Dropbox folder3. Visit frequency: D1 retention

Just like you would for the products you build - outline the specific things you want to focus on NOW vs. NEXT vs. LATER with a clear understanding of:1. Why those things are important to you2. How they tie back to your ultimate desired outcomes (personal KPIs)

There are four atomic units of a 1.0 flywheel:Acquire: how users are acquired into the community (e.g. they sign up)Consume: the mechanisms that drive content consumption (e.g. a newsfeed)Create: the mechanisms that entice users to create content (e.g. social status)Harvest: how new content created leads to more inbound growth (e.g. SEO)

It is invariably the case that the company is better served if the Chairman and CEO are different people. The CEO can focus on managing the company and providing information to the Board. The Chairman in his role as mentor and overseer, can advise the CEO on alternative courses of action, question missing data, probe her analysis and decisions,... See more

It’s not that people don’t want to work. It’s that their jobs feel, for whatever reason, unsustainable: unsustainable for their mental and physical health, but also unsustainable for their family, and their longterm survival. Many people actually really like the work that they do, if they were, indeed, allocating the bulk of their time to doing... See more