Ilana Ettinger
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Ilana Ettinger
We have instinctual responses to help us choose the objects that meet our most basic needs—when we’re hungry, we seek food; when we’re cold, we want warmth. But there is an entire universe of desires for which we have no instinctual basis for choosing one object or another. For these objects of desire, Girard saw that the most important factor in
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Productize to segments and use casesPrice for value and then back out costs to find marginSell benefits not featuresPrice before product - figure out the value firstBundle leading items with additional features
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The labor-market conditions that will generate convergence in pay between genders – the technological and institutional changes that reduce the cost of temporal flexibility – will make life better for almost everybody.
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“But the Greeks and the Romans both believed in the idea of an external daemon of creativity—a sort of house elf, if you will, who lived within the walls of your home and who sometimes aided you in your labors. The Romans had a specific term for that helpful house elf. They called it your genius—your guardian deity, the conduit of your inspiration.... See more
How to do it: 1. Define a larger cause. 2. Articulate the problem better than anyone else. 3. Attack the status quo. 4. Define a category. 5. Build the right team. 6. Use “grassroots” customer testimony. 7. Release news in lightning strikes, not dribs and drabs. 8. Organize events to focus attention.9. Nurture your community. 10. Pick noble... See more
David Sacks • Your Startup Is a Movement
For instance: in our society, there seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it. Again, an objective measure is hard to find, but one easy way to get a sense is to ask: what would happen were this entire class of people to simply disappear? Say what you like about nurses,... See more
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David Sacks • Your Startup Is a Movement
To be sure, we’re seeing the erosion of the ideal of an employee whose family responsibilities are kept tastefully out of sight.