Ted Glasnow

The key to effective planning? Debate vigorously, but unite.

When considering building a marketplace, there are many decisions you have to make upfront, particularly whether they want to own the infrastructure or partner with the best-in-class partner or provider. For example, if you were starting a marketplace four or five years ago, you probably were building a lot of this stuff yourself. But suppose I’m... See more

our primitive is this concept of a card. A card can be any length and any height. You've released the constraint of it being fixed. And in addition to that, a card can hold anything. It can fit text and images, but you could also embed multimedia. It supports video -- you could record a Loom directly into a card. You could provide voiceover or a... See more

Customer.io was at $1.67M of MRR from 2,100 monthly paying customers as of March.

Everyone moves upmarket—few go the other direction

Start-ups should avoid long-term contracts and bake in tiers that drive price down as your business scales

Trade schools aren't pumping out as many professionals, and older ones are retiring because their bodies can only do it for so much longer. This gives them access to work from home, like the rest of us have.

Here’s our template for developing Key Initiatives:1. Strategy2. List of key projects3. Expected timeline and impact4. Resources needed5. Risks and dependencies

Wave two, which we're entering now—and Fy is very much a part of this—is broadly fermented proteins. Mycoprotein and otherwise, I think, is this next big frontier, and it’s going to open up the market to a lot more formats, applications and cuisines. Beyond just a slightly different burger or a slightly different chicken nugget. Then, the third... See more