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What the 5 Stages of Grief Teach Us About Technology

Startup Professionals Musings

We sign up for the new app, or buy one of the new devices after we see our cool friends using it. By this time, gurus are reassuring us that it is the greatest thing ever. This is when we are so persuaded that we're right and the new innovation is wrong that we are prepared to make fun of the credulous among us. Repudiation.

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What Peeling An Orange Can Teach Us About Designing New Products

YoungUpstarts

The post What Peeling An Orange Can Teach Us About Designing New Products appeared first on Young Upstarts. Navigating new venture design in a market like this is almost like peeling a tough orange, says Aayush Gupta, Venture Designer at Create.

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What Lord Of The Rings And Batman Can Teach Us About Engagement And Good Friction

YoungUpstarts

The post What Lord Of The Rings And Batman Can Teach Us About Engagement And Good Friction appeared first on Young Upstarts. This book excerpt from "Friction: Adding Value by Making People Work for It" by Soon Yu and Dave Birss explores the concept of friction in consumer engagement.

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What Plinko Can Tell Us About Where to Post

This is going to be BIG.

They’re good for experts, deep thinking or people who feel like they have a lot to say about one thing at a time. I also feel like it has made my public speaking better, because I’m usually speaking about something I’ve written about. Images can be posted just about everywhere and they’re easy to do. Where does it live?

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth. Nobody cared about our valuations any more. But this is still all about valuations and none of it is any fun anymore. Until we weren’t.

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What the Beatles Can Teach Us About Starting a Company

Software By Rob

What we don’t often think about is that although there’s luck involved in becoming a “rock star,&# there are deliberate decisions a musician makes early in a career that will impact their level of success months or years later. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. Check out my book Like this post? at 12:20 am [.]

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What Men’s Rooms Can Teach Us About Leadership and Management

OnlyOnce

That gives us an annual per urinal expense of about $100 – trivial in the scheme of maintaining an office, restaurant, or place of business. I hear stories all the time from executives about absolutely terrible leadership practices. They care about people, about experiences, about impressions, about reputations.