4. The ApplicationsBioinformatics is ushering in a new era of medicine, science, and technology. Here are some examples:• Finding cures for diseases• Improving crop yields• Improving existing treatments through the ML• Precision medicine• Predicting the future

Enterprise tech founders, how can you determine whether customers will be interested in your product before building it? There are ways to effectively research this kind of market with B2B customers' CIOs, CISOs, people ops, and sales or marketing leaders.

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 acquisitio... See more

Your organization may not be ready for design, good or bad. Design-aware employees can organize brown-bag lunches and evangelize at the water cooler. Your organization will remain design-resistant unless its leaders think in a goal-directed way about its users (and customers). Consider reading some of the fundamental design books if you're a leader... 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.


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Stage 3: Emergent When UX maturity is emergent, organizations exhibit UX work in more teams, engage in some UX-related planning and may have UX budgets. The UX efforts are, however, small, unstable, and based on individual manager initiatives rather than organizational policies. Some teams that use several research and design methods and do multipl... See more

Retroactive airdrops New protocols are designed to incentivize users further, such as airdrops to spread awareness, foster ownership, or reward early adopters retroactively. As an example, Uniswap awarded the UNI token retroactively to all users.

After his startup was acquired, Tuhin Srivastava was only a few months into unemployment when I met him at Greylock. During the discussion that led to Baseten, we spent several hours discussing it, and I found the diagram that he had recreated in some form many times over the past two years from our first meeting notes. I have been searching for a ... See more