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As venture capital becomes tighter and risk appetite dwindles, the shift from startup strategy to small business strategy has become necessary.
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At some point, certain venture capital investment became less about innovation, talent, and drive, and more about trend chasing and secret handshakes.
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Here are the best ideas my contemporaries and I have for surviving as a business without gutting the workforce.
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Technology in 2024 is, in a word, boring. But if we keep blaming the easy target, and only the easy target, we'll never get to the root of the problem.
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On my tech product triangle you have sides for revenue, value, and elegance. When you increase value and elegance, you get an even bigger increase in revenue.
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Thanks to the employee response to a remote work policy and return to office mandate at Dell, the productivity gains or losses argument no longer matters.
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The way that tech companies approach work - the 9-to-5, the org structure, the career ladder, the assumed authority - Gen Z doesn't want any of it.
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When company culture is understood correctly - as a symptom, not a cause - the mistakes that get made when trying to "fix" it become clear, and thus avoidable.
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So this is gonna read like a crazy manifesto where I connect all the dots together with thumb tacks and yarn into a conspiracy theory of epic proportions.
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What caused the startup and tech investor bubble was the fact that the cheap money trend just would not die. Then the trend collapsed overnight.
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For decades, the tech startup ecosystem and those who control it have been overpromising and under-delivering. And that needs to stop.
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These are some of the problems I've seen over 25 years of pitching to startup investors, with another 10 years of listening to entrepreneur pitches rolled into that.
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There are several corporate excuses for why tech employees are being laid off in droves. But the real reason is something that no one wants to talk about.
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In the tech industry in 2024, there is a complete loss of the pulse of the customer, in both business and consumer tech products. Here's why.
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There are a lot of people who can't quite put their finger on why Generative AI, a science so full of promise, is coming off as junk.
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Here's how venture capitalists end up pouring money into bad startup ideas and why it should never happen but frequently does anyway.
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Just because the forward-thinking 2% of the world loves your startup idea, that doesn't mean the other 98% will open their wallets.
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