We Sleep Peaceably In Our Beds At Night Only Because Rough Men Stand Ready To Do Violence On Read More
Entrepreneurship is hard but you can’t die
Business basics Business to Business Education Entrepreneurship from entrepreneurs How to build a product Launching a business Lessons and advice
The Lean LaunchPad Online
You may have read my previous posts about the Lean LaunchPad class taught atStanford, Berkeley, Columbia, Caltech and for the National Science Read More
Business models/plans Entertainment and Digital Media Entrepreneurship from entrepreneurs How to build a product Internet Social Media Lessons and advice Marketing/Advertising User experience
Getting Your Product Into the Habit Zone
As the web becomes an increasingly crowded place, users are desperate for solutions to sort through the online Read More
Business basics Business to Business Entrepreneurship from entrepreneurs Lessons and advice Making decisions Vision
Vision versus hallucination
A founder’s skill is knowing how to recognize new patterns and to pivot on a dime. At times Read More
Business to Consumer Creating good content Customer Service Engagement Entrepreneurship Financing and fundraising from observer/expert How to build a product Lessons and advice Market testing Marketing Marketing/Advertising Retention Survival tips User experience Venture capital
Make your users do the work
The belief that products should always be as easy to use as possible is a sacred cow of Read More
Business models/plans Business to Consumer Competition Customer demand Engagement Entrepreneurship from observer/expert Gamification Internet Social Media Lessons and advice Managing a business Marketing/Advertising Perseverance Success factors Team building User experience
How Sports Infects Your Brain
How Sports Infect Your Brain by Nir Eyal in Users Note: I co-authored this post with Andrew Martin and David Ngo. It originally Read More
It’s not the crime that gets you, it’s the coverup.Richard Nixon and Watergate Getting asked by reporter about where Read More
If there’s only one passionate party in a relationship it’s unrequited love. Here’s how I learned it the Read More
Business basics Business to Business Education Entrepreneurship from entrepreneurs Lessons and advice
Making a dent in the universe
Our goal teaching for the National Science Foundation was to make a dent in the universe. Could we actually teach Read More
Entrepreneurship Financial and Legal Financing and fundraising from investors Lessons and advice Venture capital
VC to founders: Help us help you
You’d think that as often as “VC is dead” is bandied about the Valley, we’d have seen a Read More
In 1995, Jeff Dachis founded Razorfish, a pioneer in online advertising, which Dachis eventually led through a public Read More
Paul Thelen is a first-time entrepreneur, having founded Big Fish Games almost a decade ago. Fast forward and Read More
Character Culture, Innovation hubs Diversity Entrepreneurship from entrepreneurs Internet Web 2.0 Lessons and advice Online Retail Software
Women are smarter than men, why aren’t more in tech?
Picture Sally. Sally is a young girl of 7 years old, who has recently entered the academic world. Read More
Business basics Business to Business Education Entrepreneurship from entrepreneurs Lessons and advice
Entrepreneurship for the 99%
This is a guest post from Jerry Engel, the Faculty Director of the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (and the Founding Read More