
Management at the edge
One of our top engineers said to me “I don’t think I can manage anyone”. I don’t think he wants to either. Keeps his own hours. Works from home. In China. And earns 2x his peers. Nobody manages him. We

Management at the edge
One of our top engineers said to me “I don’t think I can manage anyone”. I don’t think he wants to either. Keeps his own hours. Works from home. In China. And earns 2x his peers. Nobody manages him. We

What I learned about online-to-offline
A lesson on user acquisition–>activation. People need some thing to do the moment they land on your app. What I learned about online-to-offline http://justinkan.com/exec-errands-post-mortem Quote from the article: When they heard about Exec, people thought it sounded like a cool

What I learned about online-to-offline
A lesson on user acquisition–>activation. People need some thing to do the moment they land on your app. What I learned about online-to-offline http://justinkan.com/exec-errands-post-mortem Quote from the article: When they heard about Exec, people thought it sounded like a cool

Hit factories
In the gaming industry, success has always been highly unpredictable. Parker Brothers, according to a history of the company, found that there was no secret formula: products that tested well often flopped in the marketplace, while “an in-house flop could

Hit factories
In the gaming industry, success has always been highly unpredictable. Parker Brothers, according to a history of the company, found that there was no secret formula: products that tested well often flopped in the marketplace, while “an in-house flop could

Desktop mail
After a year or two of using only Gmail (in a zillion tabs on my browser, constantly logging in/out, super annoying!), I am going to give a whirl to a mail client again. InkyMail (from a startup in Baltimore) and

Desktop mail
After a year or two of using only Gmail (in a zillion tabs on my browser, constantly logging in/out, super annoying!), I am going to give a whirl to a mail client again. InkyMail (from a startup in Baltimore) and

Women in Horowitzs new book
Partners, mentors, bosses, advisors, and peers from the first ten pages:

Women in Horowitzs new book
Partners, mentors, bosses, advisors, and peers from the first ten pages:

Seed Word of Mouth
Here’s a realization I only came to recently. Since investors are often looking to team up, especially at the earliest stages when it’s hard to judge and your individual elbow grease investment will be low, these investors are looking for

Seed Word of Mouth
Here’s a realization I only came to recently. Since investors are often looking to team up, especially at the earliest stages when it’s hard to judge and your individual elbow grease investment will be low, these investors are looking for

regarding your software project
This is what an old fogey software engineer sounds like. If it sounds like you, take a good look in the mirror at your development process or perhaps ask whether something invented in the 1990s at “Andersen Consulting” or even

regarding your software project
This is what an old fogey software engineer sounds like. If it sounds like you, take a good look in the mirror at your development process or perhaps ask whether something invented in the 1990s at “Andersen Consulting” or even

Overnight success aka You Must Be In It
But with about 25,000 new apps going online every month, Flappy Bird was lost in the mix and seemed like a bust – until, eight months later, something crazy happened. The game went viral. By February, it was topping the

Overnight success aka You Must Be In It
But with about 25,000 new apps going online every month, Flappy Bird was lost in the mix and seemed like a bust – until, eight months later, something crazy happened. The game went viral. By February, it was topping the
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