Mo Shafieeha

There is a time limit on when ex-pats can survive in a foreign country. In Saigon, the informal number I hear most is three years. This horizon differs from person to person and varies according to the host country. Those who survive beyond three years are usually able to remain indefinitely. The author decided to do a few things to survive his... See more

2. Go where your target users are online.Key question: Who are your early target users, and where are they currently congregating online? Hacker News was the answer for Dropbox.

It's impossible to overstate how important getting good sleep is for mental, cognitive, and performance health. If you get direct morning sunlight 30-60 minutes after you wake up, helps you fall asleep and stay asleep at night, while optimizing cortisol and adenosine production. You can increase alertness by waking up in the morning, increasing... See more

Companies that avoid bombarding customers and instead focus on simplifying consumers’ decision-making will rise above the din, and their customers will stick by them as a result.

Management is a skill that is extremely difficult to evaluate. Certain domains are more challenging to evaluate than others.It is not easy to talk about management, but it is more challenging to implement. I have long empathized with Herbert Simon's quip that "management principles are simple, even trivial." Putting believability into practice... See more

Community as the killer app for web3, owned by the people leading and participating in them, and orchestrated by tokens.Communities Beat Individuals Any Day of the Week.

Data science teams can use Baseten to efficiently serve, integrate, design, and ship their custom machine learning models with ease. A key benefit of Baseten is that it collapses the innovation cycle for ML apps, resulting in cheaper experimentation and greater success. It unblocks ML efforts currently bottlenecked by infrastructure, frontend, and... See more

4. Create FOMO to drive word-of-mouth.Key questions: Does your product rely on UGC? Consider curating the early community. / Is your product innately social? Consider relying on existing users to invite new users.Instagram, Pinterest, and Clubhouse are examples of platforms that made their early communities exclusive. In another way, Robinhood and... See more