Mo Shafieeha
@moshafieeha
Mo Shafieeha
In college, the author started his first startup, and it failed. Before launch, he didn't talk to customers, he fought with his cofounders a lot. He didn't know how to build working software or deal with tech debt. He read Eric Ries's Lean Startup after this experience and vowed to use it. Since the insurance CRM was geared toward tracking existing... See more
Cedric Chin • Product Validation Frameworks are Mostly Useless Without Taste
Hiring Advice and
design and product design
Disruption Clayton Christensen defines disruption in his classic book The Innovator's Dilemma. Disruptive technologies are cheaper than existing ones, perform poorly under dominant standards, but are superior in a way existing markets do not need. During his research, new players repeatedly disrupted the market by introducing smaller disk drives... See more
Jerry Neumann • Disruption Is Not a Strategy
An overly detailed map won't be useful. Maps omit details that the artist—or user, if the map is interactive—deems irrelevant. In some cases, details are exaggerated to reflect importance. The map doesn't just need to be useful, but it needs to be usable. TED's Christina Wurman has created a concept model of the Tokyo subway based on a... See more
Boxes and Arrows • Book in brief - Trustworthy: How the Smartest Brands Beat Cynicism and Bridge the Trust Gap - Boxes and Arrows
Strategy and
Embedded Gaming and
2. Reach product/market fit In this phase, you solve product-based problems that you created. The users become an amorphous blob hidden behind our business metrics as we improve the MVP.
Jesse Weaver • Human-Centered Design Dies at Launch
Vertical SaaS and