How To Spend Your Time as a Leader
Open up your schedule, get your team in sync, and focus on building.
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Money In > Money Out
Simplify your budget to fit on a single sheet of paper.
There Are No Free Products
Free products aren't truly free. The costs are just not obvious.
Meetings Ruin Organizations
Recurring meetings corrode organizations.
Conquering Builder Anxiety
Building something new is a string of consecutive sprints. This is painful.
Promote the Intern
Organizations can't spend their way to victory.
The Formula for a Successful Financial Product
A simple formula for building a consumer product: get users, build multiple products, run efficiently.
Pay More, Hire Less
Great companies can only be built with exceptional people.
The Power Law: How to Pick An Investor
Don't set up a business to fail 9 times out of 10.
What Does Good Look Like?
Great companies put 3 things together: growth, engagement, and profit.
A/B Tests Rarely Make Sense: How and When to Use Them
You can't A/B test an invention.
Profit Starts With Product
Fast growing, profitable companies have one thing in common: a much better product than the competition.
Business
From High Cash Burn to Profit: How to Transform a Company
When venture capital dried up in early 2022, companies began charting a new path. The outcome: profit.
Tech
Small Teams Can Build Great Products. Here's How.
Plan. Build. Measure. Everything else is a distraction.
Tech
Is RIF a Dirty Word? How Necessary Layoffs Are Done Gracefully
The workforce must match the operating scale of the business.
Startups
A Better Way to Hire: the Case Study
Candidates need to be sure they like the job; companies need to know that a candidate can do the job.
Startups
3 Tools to Stop Startup Fraud and Waste
Three financial hygiene tools can eliminate fraud and dramatically reduce waste at any company.
Markets
Is Growth Stage Venture Capital Dead?
Growth equity funding exploded five years ago and abruptly stopped this year. No boom times ahead.
Startups
10 Slides That Raised Over $200 million
Great consumer business pitches all have the same things in common: a problem and solution, a large opportunity, and metrics.
Startups
Albert raises $100M to transform how people manage their money
Albert is on a mission to help millions of Americans achieve financial wellness.