Mo Shafieeha

3. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses Facebook is likely to let you scale a video product really, really, quickly if you figure out how to do it. Platforms cannot allow outsiders to grow enormously large in their ecosystem without paying the appropriate tax or benefit to them. A perfect competitor would be one that is unable to respond because of The... See more

A startup miracle is the key difficult thing you need to pull off for your startup to work. If your startup requires zero miracles to succeed, it probably isn't a defensible startup. If your startup requires multiple miracles, you are multiplying a low probability event to get even smaller expected outcomes.

Company purpose Start here: define your company in a single declarative sentence. This is harder than it looks. Getting caught up in listing features is easy instead of communicating your mission. Problem Describe the pain of your customer. How is this addressed today, and what are the shortcomings of current solutions? Solution Explain your eureka... See more

But what about protocol governance? This is generally a much more straightforward side of protocol governance and can run parallel to sub-DAO processes.

Designers are taught that their job is to represent the people who will use our products. We "empathize" with them and put their needs at the center of our decision-making process. As companies scale up, their priorities and incentives become less and less aligned with the people using their products. Bad things happen as we stop solving people... See more

The company Natera recently released a non-invasive prenatal test that detects Down syndrome and other conditions in a mother's blood. Although Natera's test is better than its competitors', the company charges more. A wider addressable market can be achieved by charging different prices for iPhones with different storage sizes.

Training before an interview If you can't run a trial, discuss your approach with your team members after the interview to get feedback and make adjustments to your approach.

When DAOs are needed The growth of DAOs in general and the massive success of some of the most innovative ones inevitably result in the perception that the route to growth and robust network participation requires a DAO structure. In times of ebullience, market forces make it easy to assume that every organization, community, or project needs a... See more