Leo Guinan
@leoguinan
Leo Guinan
In GTM, you aim to find a winning intercept between the needs of the target audience (called a minimal viable segment, or MVS) and your solution (called a minimal viable product, or MVP). You have to solve your target customer’s problem better than anyone else. Sometimes, 10x more added value needs to be created by a GTM company.
Maja Voje • Go-To-Market Strategist: Everything You Need to Reach Product-Market Fit
In practice, a startup nonprofit has several important distinctions from traditional nonprofits: 1) it begins with a large goal and works backwards to identify incremental steps to achieve that goal, 2) it has an iterative, experimental mindset, and 3) it is an internet first organization.
marklutter.com • Startup Nonprofits
interesting framing. I’d been focused on the concept of eliminating the distinction between for-profit and non-profit, but this is an alternative way to examine the same problem, looking like it could have similar outcomes.
Fast learns, slow remembers. Fast proposes, slow disposes. Fast is discontinuous, slow is continuous. Fast and small instructs slow and big by accrued innovation and by occasional revolution. Slow and big controls small and fast by constraint and constancy. Fast gets all our attention, slow has all the power.
Stewart Brand • Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning
both forms needed in order to integrate noise and then determine signal over time.
As our productivity increases, our standards and expectations rise even faster, creating a psychological Jevons Paradox that threatens to consume our humanity in the pursuit of ever-greater output. We become victims of our own efficiency.
Tina He • Jevons Paradox: A personal perspective
Expectations grow faster than wages. Expectations grow at the speed of information, wages grow at the speed of prediction, and fast learners are exploited in the wage system, because they are doing more and more for less and less because the value of currency in terms of buying power is going down and people with wages aren’t paying attention to money at the same level of detail.
The economy ranks as the most important of 22 issues that U.S. registered voters say will influence their choice for president. It is the only issue on which a majority of voters, 52%, say the candidates’ positions on it are an “extremely important” influence on their vote. Another 38% of voters rate the economy as “very important,” which means the... See more
Megan Brenan • Economy Most Important Issue to 2024 Presidential Vote
Pre-election, most voters signal the economy as important.
The world does a hell of a job of ensuring number 1, but BIPU is here for 2,3, and 4
Kindness has unlimited upside.”
James Clear • 3 Ideas, 2 Quotes, 1 Question (December 26, 2019) | James Clear
Abundant Systems and Engineering Generosity
More proof of ideas
At large scales, average anything goes to zero.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future • Trust Economies - The Future of Social Networks
Damn, that’s a big truth.
the peaks of shame and grandiosity
The Source 🌊
the past telling us we are bad for not conforming to the safety of rules that no longer apply and the future pulling us toward a state that we know surely must exist somewhere, and we’ve just got to get to it, then we’ll be safe.
All we know is that we aren’t safe now. And all we want to be is safe.