Business
Business, startups, and economics: founding companies, strategy, marketing, investing, and how markets work.
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Strategy glossary alexewerlof.substack.com
Building a common language for vision, mission, goals, objectives, roadmap, plans, milestones, policies.
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Strategy basics alexewerlof.substack.com
First in a series of posts about strategy why, how and what.
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Engineering Strategy Notion Template aleixmorgadas.notion.site
A template with the core elements of an engineering strategy, the high-stake problem, the understanding phase, the direction, and coherent actions.
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Engineering Strategy Workshop aleixmorgadas.dev
Introduction to engineering strategy theory and components.
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GitLab Strategy about.gitlab.com
Complete GitLab three-year strategy. Containing direction, customer focus, and team dynamics.
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The Atlassian Syndrome x.com
Your organization will end up with Atlassian products because “their business model is: 1. Collect requirement lists from customers and prospective customers; 2. Make sure their product checks every damn box, no matter how stupid.”
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sacrificial lamb product x.com
a massive unpopular re-architecture required to pave the way for future innovative release. That's the cautionary tale of why you should be ready for intense criticism and adversity, if by chance or fate your wander down the path of monumental changes in a business software.
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Amazon Wants to 'Win at Games.' So Why Hasn't It? wired.com
“Any product manager can go between any business—from groceries to film to games to Kindle. The skillset is interchangeable. They just have to learn the particular market.”
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Reverse Engineering A Successful Lifestyle Business web.archive.org
Targets lifestyle entrepreneur, but still full of fantastic quotes from reference books on customer relation, pricing and marketing a product.
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Industry Data Models web.archive.org
A huge list of database templates collected over 25 years by Barry Williams to represent any business process.
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I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea tjcx.me
A tale of building a product no user want to pay for. “You can't just create value for the user: that's a charity. You also can't just create value for your company: that's a scam. Your goal is to set up some kind of positive-sum exchange, where everyone benefits, including…
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source threadreaderapp.com
) - Contemplating to switch from the industry? The grass is not greener in academia. Given a significant size, any organization comes with its political game.
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Huge success in business is largely based on luck theconversation.com
“Management research and education should focus on prescriptive theories that can help business practitioners move from 'incompetent to OK', rather than focusing on those that address how to move from 'good to great'.”
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Management Challenges for the 21st Century - Managing Oneself thecompleteleader.org
“There is a great deal of talk today about the "mid-life crisis" of the executive. It is mostly boredom. At age forty-five most executives have reached the peak of their business career and know it.” In paragraph Ⅴ, you'll find why knowledge workers needs to manage themselves…
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How Slack Harms Projects silasreinagel.com
“Promote a false sense of urgency, destroy focus, allow for bypassing project prioritization, strip away essential business context, encourage poorly thought-out communication”. To remediate this, see How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy article.
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Don't (guess)timate your projects, forecast with confidence reaktor.com
“The problem with spending a lot of time on estimating is that it can feel useful, but often is so inaccurate that it hardly yields much value to the business.” The best we can do is measure and forecast.
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How to have great meetings, according to 200 scientific studies qz.com
A roadmap for getting meetings right.
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The 48 Laws of Power openlibrary.org
By Robert Greene. Can teach you how to cover your ass and be effective in a highly political org.
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For all you future CTOs, consider your incentive schemes carefully news.ycombinator.com
How a promotion scheme marked the end of Uber's engineering excellence and the start of what made the company turn into a bureaucratic mess.
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), or why the key practices for achieving large professional goals is missing the parts about office politics.
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) - Or why trying to create a community from the ground up might not be the right way of looking at things: a better and more subtle strategy would be to empowers the already existing channels and make them visible.
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Some reasons why enterprise software is good and maybe even fun news.ycombinator.com
The majority of us will not build the next unicorn: we statically have a better chance to build enterprise software. The twist? It might even be more interesting than you expect.
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) - This quote is from David Packard (HP co-founder), decades before current management fad.
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comment news.ycombinator.com
on Why large companies are so difficult to rescue).
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) - Some tips on how to balance which kind of information needs to be shared or muted.
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Executives ratify decisions made on the spot news.ycombinator.com
Tolstoy's thesis to business.
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On VC funding and huge growth news.ycombinator.com
“Startups need an exit strategy. (…) The idea is to raise money fast, hire experienced people for ancillary services and develop the application in a way so that it is able to hold up till IPO. Defer all costs for post IPO.” So from this angle, the only reason to join a startup…
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The different skills needed to be a successful CTO madewithlove.be
The premise is a little misleading, as what is detailed there is the journey, in a startup, of the technical founder growing with the company to become a CTO. At which point the position described in the article is not CTO, but VP of Engineering.
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I coached CEOs, founders, VCs and other executive: These are the biggest takeaways leowid.com
Excerpt: “We're all just big, complicated bags of emotion walking around; Power comes with the ability to receive a No; Learning to manage your focus, not your time.”
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Dear Startup: You have no idea how much that costs kyleprifogle.com
“We are completely clueless about how long things should take.” Here is a trick to handle expectation of unreasonable estimates.
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from a panel on the Moral Economy of Tech idlewords.com
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Power Bends Light honkathon.com
“Most things at most startups are perpetually on fire, but if you can accept that, there is a lot to like. One well-known one: at a fast-growing startup, a hard-working, talented person who has some support from company leadership can often acquire an impressive title (or at…
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Fundamentals of Product-Market Fit holloway.com
A complete overview of the concept: what is product-market fit and to measuring it.
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Equity Compensation holloway.com
Stock options, RSUs, job offers, and taxes—a detailed reference, including hundreds of resources, explained from the ground up and made to be improved over time.
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Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement gwern.net
A step further from the previous advice, in which is detailed an aggressive strategy to consolidate monopolies.
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Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short story erikbern.com
Story of a manager trying to distill the concepts of a data-driven company while growing a tiny team of 3 people. Each step covers the evolution of the technical pipeline and interactions with existing stakeholders.
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Yes, and… en.wikipedia.org
“A rule-of-thumb in improvisational comedy (…). It is also used in business and other organizations as a principle that improves the effectiveness of the brainstorming process, fosters effective communication, and encourages the free sharing of ideas.”
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Osborne effect en.wikipedia.org
“A social phenomenon of customers canceling or deferring orders for the current soon-to-be-obsolete product as an unexpected drawback of a company's announcing a future product prematurely.” This is the price to pay for hasty marketing actions.
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Escalation of commitment en.wikipedia.org
A.k.a. sunk-cost fallacy, or the rational explanation of why the hell do we still irrationally keep investing in a bad project.
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Baumol en.wikipedia.org
in action.” (source) - Explains how the pool of professional managers gets distributed into the various sectors of the economy.
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Founder to CEO docs.google.com
You can build you own career engine, starting as a technical founder of a startup, building a great team, then grow with the company to learn and become a full-fledge CEO.
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The Prosperous Software Consultant dabit3.medium.com
This article let you understand how an independent consultant operates.
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What Silicon Valley "Gets" about Software Engineers that Traditional Companies Do Not blog.pragmaticengineer.com
“1. Autonomy for software engineers; 2. Curious problem solvers, not mindless resources; 3. Internal data, code, and documentation transparency; 4. Exposure to the business and to business metrics; 5. Engineer-to-engineer comms over triangle-communication; 6. Investing in a…
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Teams are like bread blog.jessitron.com
Resonates with the Absorb and Split strategy discussed above: “if you have one team where the magic is flourishing, don't kill it. Feed it, grow it, and let it be a source of further strong teams. No rushing.”
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The six ways to influence people bakadesuyo.com
6 universal principles of influence that are used to persuade business professionals: reciprocity, consistency, social proof, getting people to like you, authority and scarcity.
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The SaaS Org Chart archive.ph
Blueprints of an organization at each stage of its 50/125/400/1000-employees stages, with typical ratios and ARR.
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Things Many People Find Too Obvious To Have Told You Already archive.ph
A set of heuristics on tech companies and the ecosystem they live in.
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The failure of Scaling Etsy archive.ph
When a company lacks technical leadership: developers waste time in costly refactors, over-engineered systems, and ends up detached from the business and product.
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What Only the CEO Can Do archive.ph
“1. Defining and interpreting the meaningful "outside" of the company; 2. Answering the two-part question: What business are we in and what business are we not in? 3. Balancing sufficient yield in the present with necessary investment in the future; 4. Shaping the values and…
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Good business mafias form archive.ph
when there's a group of people who all have to quit their job for reasons that are exogenous to their performance. In the case of Paypal, it was an acquisition; at Tiger Management, a few years of underperformance; at Drexel Burnham Lambert, an indictment. In Reliance's case…
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