Mo Shafieeha

Rule 4: Reasoning by Analogy is … OK!

After learning content marketing for two years, the author realized he could have gained much more knowledge talking to failed content marketers. You'll want to find out why they've left in those conversations. You'll also want to find out what coping strategies they used. You might succeed if you avoid all the ways that you could fail.

Ethereum was chuck-e-cheese tokens two years ago, but now it's permissionless financial app. Crypto nerds are amazed at what is now possible with DeFi protocols and applications. A lot of investors think governance tokens are like ICOs. Are governance tokens worth anything or just chuck-e-cheese?

Step4: Plan Your Company Strategy. You must understand the broader context in which your product will live as a startup founder. Customers usually envision hiring a services firm to come and fix their problems completely as their "ideal solution." As a startup, you should develop a compelling, generalizable solution.

Following up After the interview, we asked interviewees to send in any questions they had, but we didn't have time or couldn't answer them.

Mindsets

• Sees the whole picture


• Engages different perspectives to see new leverage points in complex systems


• Looks for relationships and how parts interact


• Looks for unintended consequences


• Thinks circularly; not linearly


• Embraces complexity


• Questions assumptions

When the iPhone was introduced in 2007, it mystified its competitors because it wasn't designed for the world as it existed. It was such a remarkable device that the world adapted to it. The iPhone keeps getting better as Apple fixes problems and adds new features. The smartphone illustrates a broader historical trend: technologies usually appear... See more