Mila Superstar

7. You cannot rely on proprietary code, trade secrets, and data moats as your competitive advantage.

Content: There is a high volume of keywords that are relevant to your product, and these keywords are not dominated by competitors that will be difficult to unseat.

Virality: Over 50% of your new customer acquisition today is through word-of-mouth, customers are naturally telling their friends and family about your product, and you’ve run a handful of successful experiments that increase this behavior.

you actually need to do the opposite and reduce your scope by shedding parts of your responsibility to enable new teams around them. This feels very counterintuitive after years of trying to gain additional scope. But the decision here is that you can either keep it all yourself and do a B job at it, or you can shed these areas to enable them to... See more

Always prioritize tasks that unblock your team members.Ask your team members often: What’s slowing you down?Look around corners—what’s a looming soon-to-be blocker that you can keep from becoming a blocker?

There are four key transitions you need to make: Depth in one type of product work → Breadth across multiple types of product workBeing good at your job → training others to be good at theirsSolving with the resources you have → Solving by allocating resources and influencing othersGaining more personal scope → Creating more scope for the... See more

3. Ape In: Reach out, evaluate, and join a web3 team

What’s the best path into a web3 gig?

Why Retention Is The Silent Killer: 1. To properly understand the impact of retention and prioritize initiatives you need to take a long-term view - and that often conflicts with most teams’ short term goals. 2. Retention metrics are easy to mis-define and can lead teams in the wrong direction when defined incorrectly. 3. A healthy business is the

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