Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

As a kid growing up in America in a middle class family it just seemed so remote. Not knowing what would happen with the rest of the season. You really have to lean in and say, "Okay. ER : A lot of folks I've been talking to about this, they're not accustomed to asking the government to help and it feels a little weird.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

No other industry in America says that customers complaining are "trolls" -- it's only those with digital wears using these old geek memes that are so marginalizing and destructive. As for the rest of the comments that have generally been blasting me for my use of the word troll, let me say the following: 1) I hear you.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

Even when we started, and some of these statistics have gotten worse, but one in three kids in America are overweight or obese, and a lot of this is because of lack of access to good high quality food and culturally relevant food in the places where these kids spend most of their time.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

So Corporate America has a dogs vs. cats problem — or perhaps a “Mars vs. Venus” problem is more appropriate. Rest assured these meetings aren’t spent with everyone in agreement, congratulating each other on their perfect ideas. Story can create legends that an entire workplace culture can build upon, grow with, and lean on.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2016

A lean business plan would be a perfect fit for your business. Even if you do intend to pitch your business idea to lenders and investors, you can start with a lean plan, and flesh out the rest of the info later on. Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. A Standard Business Plan Outline.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

Do I think we’d be better off with a radical transformation of policing in America? That’s the thing about someone who is a government systems wonk. So no matter what my political leanings might be, I have a minimum bar for experience that I’m requiring for my vote—especially when the devil is really in the details.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

This is all the census information that the government collects every few years. To Tim Berry’s point, who was on this podcast a little while ago in a lean planning episode, a lot of this stuff comes from iterative thinking. Is the rest of it social media and referral traffic? It’s called quickfacts.census.gov.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

oz burgers as fast as possible, and commit the rest of your career to an endless series of McDonalds menus. The rest of us have some fine dining to enjoy. I doubt anything can beat it the rest of this year. The rest of the post is so ridiculously stereotyped nonsense that it’s not worth a response.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 13, 2017

You are going to see my deep bias for simplicity for the rest of this post (or in the 745,540 words written on this blog thus far). Here’s a valuable dataset from the Equal Justice Initiative on Lynchings in America. Beyond the value of the lessons from the visualizations, I encourage you to explore rest of the EJI website.

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