Mo Shafieeha

You can combine free services with physical goods or businesses unrelated to pure-play software. Fitness bands will come with a growing range of software, but if supplements have a higher margin, the band and software may be given away. "Free parking" business models risk companies giving away their products in the technology business with no... See more

F: If you don’t track your Product Metrics on a regular basis. Constantly read your product feedback and take it constructively, and derive as much value as possible.

A few suggestions to inoculate your company against this form of naturally emergent dishonesty:

1. Choose board members you trust.


2. Tell the truth yourself, because everyone models the CEO.

Asset curation The most natural place for asset curation is NFT collection DAOs, such as PleasrDAO. DeFi DAOs can also face this problem. DeFi DAOs use their governance tokens as art and culture curators to vote on adding or removing assets. Anyone can create a trading pool in Uniswap, but those with leverage cannot. Governance determines which... See more

Clarity of purpose Summarizes the company’s business on the back of a business card. Large markets Address existing markets poised for rapid growth or change. A market on the path to a $1B potential allows for error and time for real margins to develop. Rich customers Target customers who will move fast and pay a premium for a unique offering.... See more

The idea that 'expertise is just pattern-matching is challenging to me because it doesn't seem like it should be so simple. What about creativity? Don't different mechanisms than prototype-based recognition drive creativity? The short answer seems to be 'yes, creativity relies on connecting different ideas, which is independent of expertise. The... See more

Taking an idea from concept to business means moving through a series of gates. In the Silicon Valley model, the gates look something like this:

1. Develop an initial product concept and launch a Minimum Viable Product (MVP).


2. Iterate on MVP to reach product/market fit.


3. Scale up.


4. Cash-out.