The AMI-Jerusalem Center for Biblical Study and Research has been a positive force for good for Christian Read More
Gary Hargrave of Hargrave Ministries and the AMI-Jerusalem Center for Biblical Study and Research
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Wrap-Up of the inaugural SplashX LA on January 19, 2017
Six months ago, SplashX debuted in Oakland. On January 19, 2017, the LA inauguration of SplashX was launched. Read More
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Three pillars of the most successful tech products
If you’ve started a tech company to make a lot of money, chances are you’re bad at math—or Read More
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How two companies hooked customers on products rarely use
Larry Page, CEO of Alphabet (the company formerly known as Google), has a quirky way of deciding which Read More
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How to build technology that feels like a friend
Recently, I needed to book a lunch meeting. To help coordinate, I asked Amy to assist and cc’d Read More
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When A CEO Improves On Business Productivity……
When a CEO improves on business productivity, that helps to improve on her work-life management. It’s important for Read More
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This Will Be the Last Article You Read
If the Internet had a voice, I am fairly certain it would sound like the HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Read More
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Ways to get people to do things they don’t want to do
A reader recently asked me a pointed question: “I’ve read your work on creating user habits. It’s all Read More
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Top 10 lessons learned articles in 2012
While 2010 and 2011 were the most recent years in which entrepreneurs had the upper hand over venture Read More
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How to Think About Marketing an Innovation
Innovation is all about value, and both internal communications and external marketing have a critical role to play Read More
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Escape from message hell
We are caught in an endless cycle of messaging hell and the pattern is always the same. First, Read More
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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
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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
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Never take your eyes off this hacker metric
If you’re like me, you’ve had enough of the Facebook IPO story. For tech entrepreneurs struggling to build stuff, the Read More
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Spotting the next Facebook
Facebook will sell shares Friday in one of the biggest tech IPOs in history. New investors will gobble up Read More