Mo Shafieeha
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Mo Shafieeha
As a result, design principles are either misused, misinterpreted, or even abandoned because complex statements are hard to comprehend, apply, and remember. The 'Don't Make Me Think' principle by Steve Krug is straightforward and easy to remember. In order to speed up and simplify their design processes, Salesforce and Airbnb have developed... See more
Ian Batterbee • The design principle paradox
4. Cash out When you get hooked on growth hacking, negative externalities become a part of doing business, not some short-term fix. It's like a drug. Once you get hooked, there is no turning back. If you go public, you have to keep increasing investor value. Consultancies rarely build and scale things; in fact, they rarely leave the first gate.In... See more
Jesse Weaver • Human-Centered Design Dies at Launch
Bill Gurley • All Markets Are Not Created Equal: 10 Factors To Consider When Evaluating Digital Marketplaces - Above the Crowd
The sense of empowerment comes from making decisions and feeling good about them. By giving organizations a consistent visual and verbal voice, we can help them to regain trust.
Boxes and Arrows • Book in brief - Trustworthy: How the Smartest Brands Beat Cynicism and Bridge the Trust Gap - Boxes and Arrows
It's messy and disorganized in reality. Frameworks promise to bring order to it in pleasing ways. They blunt the chaos and give you buckets to categorize your observations. However, if you've ever tried to apply any frameworks, you know that they're anything but simple to implement. In the business world, frameworks are used as a crutch for making... See more
Commoncog • Reality Without Frameworks
2. Protocol Grant Programs Community development and protocols can be funded with on-chain treasuries. Protocols support governance initiatives (like grant programs) and have other benefits. They have access to a huge pool of third-party developers, unlike any company or development team. In addition, they give people worldwide a huge economic... See more
Andreessen Horowitz (AZ) • On Crypto Governance - a16z crypto
Entrepreneurial Strategy There are four things an entrepreneur needs: a good idea, a good team, a good product, and a good business model. Interviewing customers, assessing the market, building a MVP, and iterating are all tactics. In the long run, how do we dominate a significant market? In the short term, entrepreneurs tend to focus on a large... See more
Jerry Neumann • Disruption Is Not a Strategy
There are a lot of approaches to organization design, but none are reliable and construct-valid. It ignores how personhood and work are intertwined. In addition, the organization isn't a self-aware social singularity, so employees are differentiated as futuristic cogs who 'energize' themselves autonomously. A strategy that can only focus on one... See more