Mo Shafieeha

1. Go where your target users are offline.Key question: Who are your early target users, and where are they currently congregating offline? Doordash and Tinder worked well on college campuses.

It's been shown that with 2-6 months of abstinence, social/casual drinkers can rewire their neural circuits and revert damage to their prefrontal cortex. Drinking can cause the prefrontal cortex and circuits that control memory to shut down, so chronic alcohol users are likely to feel long-lasting effects.

Something magical happens when you create a business for a customer base you intrinsically understand! Treating yourself as your first customer can save you marketing costs, make sure you start with a solid product offering, and much more. Creating a solution to a problem without worrying about how you’re going to sell and market it can allow you... See more

1. Sustaining collaborative innovation among independent projects is a governance problem.


2. A core part of governance is determining an optimal division of rights to control project decisions across various stakeholders.


3. Blockchains frequently require participation of multiple independent platform layers to deliver functionality to end users.


4. Some of

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Whenever I think about western design, I often wonder about how homogeneous the scene is. If our references and inspiration come from people who are so similar to us, do we really think we'll think differently? Outside our western bubble, there is an inspiring, beautiful, thoughtful, and fascinating world of design taking place. I interviewed... See more

A company that avoids hard truths assumes that an engineer who knows the company has missed a quarter will leave for sunnier pastures, so it's best to keep them in the dark until the problem is resolved. In their hearts, the CEO and her staff know the truth. They're smart enough to see it for themselves.