Mo Shafieeha

It reduces plutocracy, whale attacks, and voter apathy. Furthermore, it accounts for skin-in-the-game, direct signaling and is relatively permissionless. By using tools like Conviction Voting, holders can increase their voting power. Due to a lack of top-down strategy setting, convergence is a challenge for many DAOs. As a final note, the above... See more

Changing the product domain made it easier to navigate. You can have two product development processes: Ask customers what problems they have and build for them. Or you don't ask customers anything and rely on internal product leaders' taste and judgment. Customer obsession and taste are parallel paths to product success. Some domains, like Lean... See more

--------------------------------------------- Performing a retrospective You can fix any mistakes you made and improve your approach if you did an interview by yourself. If it's a team effort, then the retrospective should be done in iterations after one or two interviews. Share the recording with someone more skilled and ask for their feedback.

Stop worrying and help respondents do the same Whenever you feel nervous during an interview, acknowledge the feeling and be open about it. This won't take away the stress, but it will ease it. If a respondent appears to be anxious, ask if the interview questions are making them feel that way.

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.

A lot of products require a mixture of taste and customer obsession. So if you try to copy Amazon's PR/FAQ process without someone with product taste in the room, you're pretty likely to fail. There's also the tacit component to success, which is harder to articulate and, therefore, harder to acquire.

The biggest issue I have with the bloated addressable market slides we see in company pitches is that when we fast forward 5-10 years, the actual revenue generated by those companies will not even come close to equalizing the addressable market size. The addressable market size slide is usually the least useful in a pitch deck since it is too... See more

Closing on the right note If it's supposed to take 40 minutes, then it'll take 40 minutes. If you're running out of time, let an interviewee finish their thought before asking the last question.