Founding
about the founding of a new company and all wisdoms that come from failures in startups.
Collection by Bernhard Huessy
Ness Labs
Systematic inventive thinking: the power of thinking inside the box
4 min · · When talking about creativity, many people will tell you: “Think outside the box!” The catchphrase is so common in management consulting and business environments, it has become a bit of a cliché.… · Shared by 6242, including Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Gregor B. Rosenauer, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, shishir das, Luminous Kaleidoscope, Bernhard Huessy, Jessel Sookha, Liv 😷, Mario Clemente, Matthias Lampe, Michael Carroll, Evan (he/him), Mauro Toselli, Touche Theories
First Round
8 Product Hurdles Every Founder Must Clear — This PM-Turned-Founder Shares His Playbooks
20+ min · · Repeat PM turned first-time founder Ryan Glasgow addresses the tough product questions every founder faces, from segmenting the market and iterating on early MVPs, to finding product/market fit and… · Shared by 1436, including William Toll, Alyssa C, Bernhard Huessy, Matthias Lampe, Bill Trenchard, Marty Cagan
Mission.org
The Greatest Sales Deck I’ve Ever Seen
Summary · 8 min · · It’s Zuora’s, and it’s brilliant. Here’s why. · Shared by 1153, including William Toll, HeidiCohen - Top Global Marketer, Lord Travis Wright, Tomasz Tunguz, Nicolas Babin, Bram Kanstein, Lorie Marrero, Gianluca Diegoli, David Luescher, Jacob Cass, krisdahn.eth, Howard Getson, Parin Vachhani, Kevan Lee 👋, shanesnow, Michelle Tandler, Casey Smith, designshard, Mark Kaigwa, Chris Messina
medium.com
Tools for Systems Thinkers: The 6 Fundamental Concepts of Systems Thinking
Summary · 9 min · · In this series on systems thinking, I share the key insights and tools needed to develop and advance a systems mindset for dealing with… · Shared by 995, including Brain Traffic, Lluís Codina, designshard, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, Parin Vachhani, getAbstract, Manos Hatzimalonas, Chris Messina, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Ines Bieler, Rodrigo Prior, Katja Evertz, Antonio Vieira Santos, Mark Kaigwa, Dominik Grolimund, Christina, Bill Johnston, Mara Averick, Fabrice Liut 🍌🥑😌, Patrick Neeman
Harvard Business Review
The Two Traits of the Best Problem-Solving Teams
6 min · · You need both diversity and safety. · Shared by 833, including Michelle Boisson, Bernhard Huessy, Daniel Bentes, Herbert Bay, Christian P. Stobbe, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Niklaus Gerber, Florian Hanke 🍎, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Mike Taylor, Dominik Grolimund, Antonio Vieira Santos, Tim Herbig, tjalve, Martina Bürge, Marco Unternaehrer, Teresa Torres, mdy, Kim Lawless, Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing
Journal
How To Design a Bulletproof Product Strategy
8 min · · Anytime a company consistently ships product faster than the average, people will assume they are doing something heroic. · Shared by 809, including Philip Stehlik, Mark Kaigwa, Inurfacesuka Дедечка, ja hallo met kasper, Mohamed Azazy, Yonatan Levy, Thomas Pleil, Oleg Baskov, von Moerenburgh, Herbert Bay, Dominik Grolimund, Christian P. Stobbe, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, ThomNagy, designshard, Adrian🇨🇭, James Young, Marco Unternaehrer, Christian Hartmann, Christian Müller
WIRED
Techies Still Think They're the Good Guys. They're Not.
Summary · 9 min · · Silicon Valley is slow to come to terms with the fact that it's become the new Wall Street. · Shared by 744, including Katja Evertz, Thomas Power, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Nathan Rosquist, Thomas Pleil, Rhys, Mark Kaigwa, Stef Walter, Dominik Grolimund, Jane, Rand Fishkin, 👨🏻💻☕️, John Battelle, Steve Rayson, Claudia Sommer, von Moerenburgh, Stephanie A Kowalski, Johannes Lenz, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, getAbstract
coolors.co
Coolors - The super fast color schemes generator!
1 min · · Generate infinite color palettes for your designs and share, export or save it in your profile. · Shared by 744, including Monica Burns #EdTech #Education, Madalyn Sklar Digital Marketing since 1996, Andy Kriebel, Liliane Ferrari ™, Una 🇺🇦, Smithographic℠, Chris Messina, Kenneth Kalmer, 𝙎𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙯 💡, Melissa Tan, Mark Kaigwa, Canva, Peter McCormack🏴☠️, Brad Brooks, wahalulu@fosstodon.org Marck Vaisman, Cole Knaflic, Brian Casel, Daniel Williams, Lily Ray 😏, Lea Verou
First Round
Don’t Serve Burnt Pizza (And Other Lessons in Building Minimum Lovable Products)
20+ min · · Move over minimum viable product: here's how founders and product managers can build products users love instead. · Shared by 730, including Stefan Weber, Dominik Grolimund, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, tcherno, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Josh Kopelman, Oliver Raduner, Florian Graillot, JD Prater, Johannes Dornisch, Chris Isak, Phin Barnes, Jonathan Kogan, Jeremy Liew, #BLM #StopAsianHate, Bernhard Huessy, Maja Grolimund-Kurth, Brad Engel
The Correspondent
Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing
17+ min · · Blockchain technology is going to change everything: the shipping industry, the financial system, government … in fact, what won’t it change? But enthusiasm for it mainly stems from a lack of… · Shared by 700, including Sebastien Meunier, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Moritz Stefaner, Danny Preussler, 🇺🇦, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷, Cope, Rob Wijnberg, Rutger Bregman, Jean-François Gariépy 🧬, tante, Noah Smith, Pixel, Nico Lumma, Josep M. Ganyet, Andreas Staub, Dr Catherine Breslin, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Ernst-Jan Pfauth, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Christopher D. Long
HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology
WTF is Strategy?
Summary · 10 min · · Do you understand what planning and executing a product development strategy truly entails? In this helpful article, product development expert Vince Law works to clarify the concept of “strategic thinking.” Law explains strategy’s importance and offers a practical framework that contextualizes and defines strategy within the overall product development timeline. Law also offers general and specific examples of the framework and thus, strategic thinking, in action. getAbstract recommends this article to project leaders looking to better understand how to develop and execute strategy. · Shared by 700, including Bernhard Huessy, getAbstract, Andreia Costa 🇵🇹, designshard, Christian Hartmann, Andreas Spiegler, David Smooke, Christian P. Stobbe, Brad Engel, Matteo Furia, Dominik Grolimund, Mohamed Azazy, David Nagel, Jakub Ferenc, Howard Getson, Erick Mazer Yamashita, Roger Wernli, Slawomir Polanski
Ness Labs
How to think better
6 min · · Learn how to think better with a guide on decision-making frameworks, cognitive biases, mental models, and tools for thought. · Shared by 654, including Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Antonio Ramos, Evan (he/him), Katja Evertz, Rich, Josh Blaha, fnord, James, Mario Clemente, Ahiesh PVS, Tom Connor, Bernhard Huessy, Gio Tiongson
HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology
Why Isn’t Agile Working?
Summary · 5 min · · Agile project management techniques have the potential to help companies develop software focused on their customers’ needs in less time and with less waste than the old approaches. But as author John Cutler points out in this short, illustrated read from Hackernoon, agile isn’t a magic pill that will fix an organization’s productivity woes on its own. getAbstract recommends this short post as a starting point for those who may be considering an agile implementation but aren’t sure what to expect. · Shared by 650, including Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Teresa Torres, Ron McIntyre, Ian Lurie 🇺🇦 @ianlurie@mastodon.social, Michael Musgrove, Mark Kaigwa, Nicolas Berg, James Young, Dominik Grolimund, Nir Eyal, Bjorn Larsen, getAbstract, Thomas Power, Jens-Christian Fischer, Yvette Dubel, Max R. Scheer, Christian Müller, Oleg Baskov, Rezha Julio, Christian P. Stobbe
GQ Magazine
Is Social Media Good For Anything At All?
3 min · · Tech oracle Jaron Lanier saw the evils of social media platforms before anyone else. Now he talks about whether Twitter activism really works, how to fix Facebook, and why he won't be joining Silicon… · Shared by 618, including Faik Ersoy, Amy Cuddy, PhD, Matthias Lampe, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Jane, Gisele Navarro, Mark Kaigwa, jérémie Flück, Bernhard Huessy, Brad Brooks, Birgit Schefer, Andy Greenwald, Stephanie A Kowalski
TNW
18 best places to promote your startup for virtually nothing
8 min · · When you have launched a startup or prototype, one of the most important strategies to prove is your business concept and gaining early user traction. If you’re like most startup founders, you don’t have much money, nor do you have enough money to hire a PR agency. However, to become a great entrepreneur means you […] · Shared by 614, including L. Taylor Banks, Shawn Venasse, Raul Tiru 🌎, Dominik Grolimund, designshard, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Elia Palme, Sara Usinger, Daniel Stefanovic, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, krisdahn.eth, Antonio Vieira Santos, Thomas Power, Courtney Bolton ★, Matthias Sala, Harsha Mv, Mathias Böhm, Brent Summers, Parin Vachhani, Lord Travis Wright
Brain Pickings
Bruce Lee’s Never-Before-Seen Writings on Willpower, Emotion, Reason, Memory, Imagination, and Confidence
6 min · · “You will never get any more out of life than you expect.” · Shared by 600, including Tris Hussey, Bernhard Huessy, Atul Pradhananga, Dez S. Papp, Paddy Zab, Arin Basu, Florian Hanke 🍎, Johannes Lenz, Thomas Power, Liv 😷, Brandon Uttley, Gabriele, Stephanie A Kowalski, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Dominik Grolimund, Fabrizio Bianchi, Vincent Liu, Rodrigo Noales, Daniel Bentes, Bill Johnston