Mo Shafieeha

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

If you want leaders, you might want to throw high-potential people into the water first. Executive development is probably a different game than individual contributor training. Ben Horowitz's The Hard Thing About Hard Things has a chapter called 'Why Startups Should Train Their People,' in which he makes the same point. According to Horowitz, the... See more

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The company Natera recently released a non-invasive prenatal test that detects Down syndrome and other conditions in a mother's blood. Although Natera's test is better than its competitors', the company charges more. A wider addressable market can be achieved by charging different prices for iPhones with different storage sizes.

No doubt the taste system is involved in feeding us nutrients to sustain our lives - we're attracted to the nutrients we need and we're deterred from the ones we don't. Even if your brain doesn't get stimulated by water, certain parts of your brain get the entire behavioral stimulus.

Some ideas are true and correct when applied to higher levels of abstraction. However, ideas that might use to lower classes do not translate cleanly to high levels. Though human psychology rests on the complex interplay between neurons, neural network rules do not apply. On the other hand, the regulations that govern a market economy do not extend... See more