Mo Shafieeha

More listening, less talking The interviewer may just be thinking over the question at hand, so don't rush to fill those silences when you're less experienced.

Two: Create Meaningful Change According to Peter Senge, most problems we face today are a result of yesterday's solutions. When we look at the big picture and see how it all fits together, we can identify opportunities that make sense for the whole. A Theory of Change is a framework for thinking about change interventions. We need to analyze the... See more

Every 10 grams of alcohol you drink each day increases your breast cancer risk by 4-13% (alcohol causes tumors to grow faster and suppresses molecules that inhibit tumor growth, as well as alcohol, increases tumor growth) for every 10 grams of alcohol you drink. As a result of aromatization, drinking alcohol on a regular basis increases estrogen... See more

A lot of products require a mixture of taste and customer obsession. So if you try to copy Amazon's PR/FAQ process without someone with product taste in the room, you're pretty likely to fail. There's also the tacit component to success, which is harder to articulate and, therefore, harder to acquire.

he worked as Netscape's product manager to pivot the server product line. Microsoft's IIS had all the features they had, was five times faster, and was free. Mike Homer and he worked furiously to acquire and partner. they beat Microsoft and grew the server line to $400M.

2. Market Structure "Market structure" also matters, as does market size. Airbnb's success was attributed to releasing a new market of inventory for travelers tired of paying too much for hotels. Less than 10% of Public Storage's $2.4 billion in sales are controlled. After a year in the market, MakeSpace's biggest issue was CAC (customer... See more

Suggestions:

1. We should accept the premise that people will not run their own servers by designing systems that can distribute trust without having to distribute infrastructure.


2. We should try to reduce the burden of building software.

Multiple Miracles Should Be Avoided Entrepreneurs fail often when they define their end goal and then create miracle-driven logic chains to reach it. For example, we want to replace Yelp. Step 1: Launch a mobile music app. Once we have millions of users, we can add local content, including businesses. As soon as we reach millions of users, we can... See more