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2025
- Nov 17 — The Four Words That Change Everything
- Nov 4 — The Profession Trap
- Jul 8 — YCDBSOYA
- Jun 12 — GYSHIDO!!
- May 26 — Would You Bet Your House on a Cartoon?
- May 20 — Don’t Let AI Flatten Your Voice
- May 20 — Guess Who’s Back…
2024
- Dec 16 — There Is Always Someone Taller Than You
- Sep 17 — The fable of the startup that lost it all…
- Sep 11 — Lead Like Dee: The Art of Self-Management
- Sep 4 — Missing the Forest for the Trees
- Aug 23 — GyShiDo
- Jun 28 — Let Chaos Reign Supreme
- Apr 10 — Living the Dream. Nightmares are dreams too.
- Mar 20 — Build Products That Don’t Suck (Or Risk Losing Everything)
- Mar 14 — The Power of Simple Stories
- Mar 6 — The Brainstorming Delusion
- Feb 26 — The Bozo Explosion Lives On
- Feb 20 — On Serendipity
- Feb 15 — We Stand for Each Other's Success
- Jan 19 — Edison’s Paradox: It’s Not Just in Your Head
2023
- Dec 20 — The Epidemic of Proving We Work
- Dec 14 — Daring to Dream: Why Betting on Optimism Wins
- Dec 8 — “Why” – The Key to Innovation and Startup Success
- Nov 15 — Knowledge & Productivity: The Compounding Force
- Nov 2 — Why Obsessing Over Details Makes All the Difference
- Oct 24 — Focus On Your ROL
- Oct 12 — All Success Comes Out of Failures
- Oct 5 — The Surprising Blueprint Behind Today’s Workplace Dysfunction
- Sep 11 — Satisfactory Underperformance
- Aug 31 — No Shortcuts to Mastery: Guy Kawasaki’s Raw Truth on Getting Great
- Aug 24 — Marketing is Values, Not Noise
- Aug 17 — Always Run, Never Walk: Unleashing Creativity through Action
- Aug 12 — Investing vs. Spending Time: The Secret Sauce to a Meaningful Life
- Aug 2 — Don’t Make An All-You-Can-Eat Buffet
- Jul 21 — Don’t Be a Career
- Jul 13 — You're Not the Star: The Unselfish Perspective in Leadership
- Jul 6 — Value Statements Are (Typically) Useless
- Jun 28 — Hiring for the Unknown
- Jun 22 — Apple First, Boss Second
- Jun 14 — Things That Make You Go Hmmm…
- May 31 — No One Cares
- May 12 — Poke Life
- Apr 25 — Give a Damn
- Apr 12 — Perfection Sucks, and It’s Boring
- Apr 4 — Learning from the Best
- Mar 16 — Der Fisch Stinkt Vom Kopf
- Mar 8 — The Most Important Insight Into Leadership
- Feb 22 — The Deeper You Get
- Feb 7 — Lean Into The Future
- Jan 27 — Stick With It
- Jan 20 — What Doesn’t Change?
- Jan 12 — The Adjacent Possible
- Jan 2 — KPIs
2022
- Dec 12 — It Pays To Be Early
- Dec 5 — On Change And Changing
- Nov 17 — Stuff Is Just Hard
- Nov 13 — Why Big Corp Won't Hurt You
- Oct 28 — Whatever is Easiest Wins
- Oct 20 — Everybody Is Faking It All the Time
- Oct 11 — Nobody Knows Anything Anyway
- Oct 4 — Best Practices Are (Usually) Temporal
- Sep 4 — I Used To Think
- Aug 28 — To Become a Better Leader, Become a Better Human
- Aug 20 — On Leaders and Managers
- Aug 12 — Don’t Be That Guy
- Jul 25 — Der Fisch Stinkt Vom Kopf
- Jul 17 — Nothing Matters — Everything Matters
- Jul 7 — Do One Thing
- Jun 24 — Embrace The Tension
- Jun 13 — The Simple Secret To Running a Productive Brainstorm
- Jun 4 — How You Know That You Are An Entrepreneur
- May 25 — To Commit, Let Go
- May 11 — How to Combat “Squirrel Brain”
- May 2 — The Right Time Is Right Now
- Apr 21 — How To Be (More) Creative
- Apr 14 — Persistence Is A Startups Superpower
- Apr 6 — How To Make Your Own Luck
- Mar 31 — The Three Question Journey to Sustained Growth
- Mar 24 — Solve Gnarly Problems
- Mar 18 — Follow Me Home
- Mar 9 — I Have Questions
- Feb 17 — Obvious is Better
- Feb 8 — Imagining a Better Future (With Kraftwerk)
- Feb 3 — How Do I Begin?
- Jan 27 — The 60/20/20 Rule for the Future (And Running Your Business)
- Jan 20 — Thinking About “Thinking Outside of the Box”
- Jan 13 — Leading Into and in the Unknown
- Jan 3 — Slow is Smooth and Smooth is Fast
2021
- Dec 14 — First Lesson of Marketing: Saddles versus Horseback Riding
- Dec 8 — Sometimes You Just Need To Be Okay With Yourself and the World
- Nov 19 — Possibly the Most Important Skill of the Future – Neugier
- Nov 15 — The Weird World of COVID-19
- Nov 9 — Ten Things I Learned: No 11 — Encore
- Nov 4 — Ten Things I Learned: No 10 — Start Now
- Nov 2 — Ten Things I Learned: No 9 — Think Big and Build What Matters
- Oct 28 — Ten Things I Learned: No 8 — Ignorant
- Oct 26 — Ten Things I Learned: No 7 — Resilient
- Oct 21 — Ten Things I Learned: No 6 — Smarter
- Oct 19 — Ten Things I Learned: No 5 — Networked
- Oct 15 — Ten Things I Learned: No 4 — Focused
- Oct 11 — Ten Things I Learned: No 3 — Louder
- Oct 7 — Ten Things I Learned: No 2 — Faster
- Oct 4 — Ten Things I Learned: No 1 — Better
- Sep 27 — The Doner Kebab Test
- Sep 23 — Be Careful What You Wish For
- Sep 20 — Doing A Job
- Sep 16 — Common Sense
- Sep 13 — The One Thing
- Sep 9 — Disruption is a State Change
- Sep 2 — The Hardest Part of Doing Anything Is…
- Aug 30 — Confidence
- Aug 26 — On Success and Failure
- Aug 23 — Listen. Truly Listen.
- Aug 19 — Smaller And Smaller
- Aug 16 — Newton’s Third Law of Motion
- Aug 12 — Time to Rewrite The Story
- Aug 9 — Beachballs and Icebergs
- Aug 6 — Pay Attention To What You Pay Attention to
- Aug 2 — Understanding Generations
- Jul 30 — Power Ten
- Jul 26 — What You Can Learn From Story
- Jul 22 — Do You Really Want A Pet Tiger?
- Jul 19 — How We Form Abstract Beliefs
- Jul 15 — First Principles And The Power of Analogs
- Jul 12 — Don’t Let It Happen
- Jul 8 — Can Or Do You?
- Jul 5 — Lean Into The Future
- Jul 1 — Productivity vs/and Creativity
- Jun 28 — Measure — And Measure The Right Things
- Jun 24 — The Winchester House
- Jun 21 — Five Magic Hours
- Jun 17 — Premature Optimization
- Jun 14 — Time to Choose
- Jun 10 — You Have to Dig
- Jun 7 — The Avoidance And Embrace of Hard Times
- Jun 3 — On Genius
- Jun 1 — Things You Can Learn From a Horse
- May 27 — Don’t Do Anything That’s Been Done Before
- May 24 — Nintendo Wii, Flatscreen Displays and the Future of…
- May 20 — Ask This Question When Hiring Someone
- May 17 — Shock The People
- May 13 — Taking a Shave with Occam’s Razor
- May 10 — The First Principles of First Principles Thinking
- May 3 — Know Thyself
- Apr 29 — The Number One (And Possibly Only) Reason Companies Fail
- Apr 26 — Rolling The Dice
- Apr 22 — DRIs
- Apr 19 — Should I Stay or Should I Go
- Apr 15 — Heroes
- Apr 12 — Don’t Trust This Man
- Apr 8 — Switch Off The Autopilot (For Once)
- Apr 5 — Embrace the Chaos
- Apr 1 — BEASTMODE
- Mar 29 — Eile Mit Weile
- Mar 25 — The Power of Asking The (Right) Question
- Mar 22 — Beware the Dunning-Kruger Effect
- Mar 18 — The Power of Three
- Mar 15 — The Common Denominator of Success
- Mar 11 — Invert, Always Invert
- Mar 8 — Learnings From Cooking (And German Sayings)
- Mar 4 — Apps Become Infrastructure Become Apps
- Mar 1 — Do Not Forget The Gestalt
- Feb 25 — Ask These Questions Always
- Feb 22 — Don’t Hide Behind Fancy Language
- Feb 18 — Transform Your Company Into a Future That Is Unfolding Before You
- Feb 15 — The New Shape Of The Long Tail
- Feb 11 — On being wrong (or right)…
- Feb 8 — The Future Has Already Happened (We Are Just Catching Up)
- Jan 24 — The most unsual question…
- Jan 10 — Explorers, Pioneers and Settlers
2020
- Dec 11 — Competitive Advantage
- Nov 23 — Strong Opinions Weakly Held
- Nov 20 — Isn’t That Interesting?
- Oct 16 — Days are long, years are short and what are you going to do with your career?
- Oct 6 — The COVID Nineteen…
- Jul 27 — The Value of Failure
- Jul 19 — The Soul of a New Company
- Jul 11 — Time To Go Pro
- Jul 4 — Seek out MAPs
- Jun 20 — Pragmatism and Poetry
- Jun 14 — Be Known (or be Nothing)
- Jun 1 — This Too Shall Pass
- May 28 — Get Your PhD in Leadership in 30 Seconds
- May 16 — The Future of (Most) Everything
- May 12 — Competition vs Customers
- Apr 6 — Now, Next and Beyond
- Mar 12 — This Too Shall Pass
- Feb 12 — Are You Working on the Right Thing?
- Feb 3 — Should I Stay or Should I Go
- Jan 21 — What a Super Bowl Ad Can Teach You About Leadership
- Jan 9 — The One Percent-Rule
2019
- Dec 3 — Everybody Either Writes Code or Talks to Customers
- Dec 3 — Know Everything There Is to Know
- Dec 3 — What Screenplay Writers and Startups Have in Common
- Nov 22 — Freedom in the System
- Nov 16 — On Paradigm Shifts
- Nov 11 — The 90 Minute Rule
- Oct 21 — Learn to Read Weak Signals
- Oct 7 — Welcome to BBS (Business Bull$#!%)
- Sep 5 — What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From (Their) Children
- Aug 27 — The Brands They Are A-Changin'
- Aug 17 — There is Always Someone Taller Than You
- Aug 3 — Applied vs Theoretical Knowledge
- Jul 25 — A Tale of Innovators and Status Quo Protectors
- Jul 22 — Forget T-Shapes
- Jul 14 — Sweat Your Fundamentals
- Jul 10 — Three Plus Two Is Six
- Jul 5 — Past versus Future: Fight!
- Jul 3 — Iterate, iterate, iterate
- Jun 30 — Startups Beware: Time Horizon 2 Might Kill You
- Jun 9 — On Sanity
- May 24 — Do The Things No One Else Does
- May 16 — Giving and Receiving Feedback
- May 5 — Please Don't Waste Your Life
- May 2 — Beware the Triplets
- Apr 29 — How Apple Ruined Our Productivity since 1985
- Apr 16 — What I Learned From Interviewing Steve Wozniak
- Mar 20 — Do Everything With Purpose
- Mar 9 — Own Your Stuff
- Mar 3 — < = > (Less Is More)
- Feb 14 — The Power of 100
- Feb 8 — A Formula for Guaranteed Success
- Feb 2 — The OODA-Loop
- Jan 23 — What Is My Job on This Planet?
- Jan 15 — Don’t Buy Into the Internet’s Exponential BS Machine
- Jan 13 — The Future Comes Slower Than You Think.
- Jan 8 — The Achilles Heel of Large Corporations (And How to Leverage Them)
- Jan 4 — The Competitive Advantage of “No BS.”
2018
- Dec 20 — The Fire Flower Problem
- Dec 16 — It is not complicated.
- Dec 5 — Being in the Infrastructure Business Is Awesome and Awful
- Dec 2 — Falling off the Wagon
- Nov 20 — Goals Suck (Somewhat)
- Nov 13 — The Curse of the Specialist, T-Shaped Person, and Generalist
- Nov 4 — Understanding Convergence
- Oct 24 — Dichotomous Thinking
- Oct 14 — Size Matters
- Oct 6 — The Business Models They Are a-Changin’
- Sep 30 — The Bear is Sticky With Honey
- Sep 22 — Storytelling, Rituals, and Artifacts
- Sep 16 — What Hollywood Can Teach You About Work
- Sep 11 — How Much Time Do You Spend in the Future?
- Sep 6 — Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts
- Aug 30 — Family, Friends, Allies – But Not Networks
- Aug 26 — I Don’t Know
- Aug 24 — Assume Nothing
- Aug 14 — Royally Screwing up (And Owning It)
- Aug 12 — These Are the Best Times You Will Ever Have
- Aug 5 — Should-a / Could-a / Would-a
- Jul 31 — Creating Your Company Culture
- Jul 25 — Who Owns The Decision?
- Jul 21 — Meet Your Customers Not Your Colleagues
- Jul 17 — What Do You Do First?
- Jul 10 — You Might as Well Become Good at It
- Jul 7 — The Power of the (Tech) Stack
- Jul 5 — My Two Favorite Questions
- Jun 28 — It Is Really Not That Complicated
- Jun 26 — Learn Something Random
- Jun 23 — There Is Always 2 Percent Truth in Everything
- Jun 21 — Your Secret Weapon When Presenting
- Jun 17 — Some Solid 2,000 Year Old Advice
- Jun 14 — Getting The Most Out of Your Board
- Jun 10 — Do You Have a Fax Machine Department?
- Jun 3 — TYBT
- May 23 — Building Your Company For The Next 100 Years - Even As If
- May 18 — Thank God it’s Friday
- May 16 — Be Paranoid. No really. Be Paranoid.
- May 14 — Avoid The Echo Chamber At All Costs
- May 10 — Entrepreneurs – Know Your Fundamentals
- May 6 — Being a CEO Sucks (Unless You Have a Trusted Network)
- May 3 — The Faster You Can Iterate, The Faster You Can Learn
- May 1 — Do not Fear (Rather Embrace) the Big Corporation
- Apr 22 — The Polak Game
- Apr 17 — Gradually And Then Suddenly
- Apr 14 — It Is Not Complicated - It Is Just Hard
- Apr 11 — The Business Models Are A-Changin’
- Apr 9 — Why Are You Doing What You Are Doing
- Apr 4 — The Fallacy of Choice
- Apr 2 — On Strategy
- Mar 31 — Action Leads to Insight
- Mar 28 — Preparation is Everything
- Mar 14 — It is not complicated. It is just hard.
- Mar 11 — The Levels of Listening Jedi Trick
- Mar 7 — If You Want to Scale – Grow Your Managers
- Mar 4 — Management by Wandering Around
- Mar 1 — Selling Shovels
- Feb 26 — What Is Your Worldview?
- Feb 22 — Create A Braintrust
- Feb 19 — Massive Transformative Purpose
- Feb 15 — Organizations in a VUCA World
- Feb 12 — In a World of Abundance Only the Best Ideas Survive
- Feb 9 — The Three Types of People Who Matter The Most
- Feb 6 — Creative Destruction (or: Don’t Be Married to Your Solution)
- Feb 3 — You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
- Jan 31 — If All You Have is a Hammer…
- Jan 29 — Business Models in a World of Abundance
- Jan 27 — What Have You Learned Last Week
- Jan 24 — Create Relevancy First
- Jan 22 — Leadership is a 360 Degrees Endeavor
- Jan 19 — Seeking Alpha
- Jan 17 — The Times They Are A-Changin’
- Jan 15 — Staying Inside the Eye of the Storm
- Jan 13 — Unintended Consequences
- Jan 11 — Get Paid For Playing
- Jan 9 — When Hiring Look For Distance Traveled
- Jan 7 — The Simple and Surefire Way to Win Against a Big Company
- Jan 5 — The Map Is Not the Territory
- Jan 3 — One Thousand Posts
2017
- Dec 31 — Make 2018 The Year You Say No
- Dec 28 — Business Is Not, I Repeat, Is NOT a Battlefield
- Dec 20 — In a World of Abundance, Do What Is Rare
- Dec 18 — Are You Aiming For The Right Things?
- Dec 15 — Turning Analog Into Digital
- Dec 10 — Do Not Make These Mistakes
- Dec 7 — Think Your Employees Are Deeply Engaged? Maybe Think Again!
- Dec 4 — The Art of Changing Your Mind
- Nov 29 — The Dogmas Of the Quiet Past Are Inadequate
- Nov 25 — Be The Wise Fool Of Tough Love
- Nov 23 — Operate in Technicolor
- Nov 21 — On Being Right
- Nov 18 — Never Underestimate The Future
- Nov 14 — Do What Is Rare And Unique
- Nov 12 — Scaling Your Startup And The Bozo Explosion
- Nov 5 — There Are No Side Effects
- Nov 4 — Strive For A Lot And Fail Well
- Oct 31 — There Are No Maps
- Oct 29 — How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything
- Oct 26 — Don’t Fail. Practice Rate-Based Learning Instead.
- Oct 24 — Rethinking People
- Oct 21 — Do The Right Thing (And Earn Your Thank Yous)
- Oct 20 — How You Finance Your Growth Determines Your Future
- Oct 17 — Headlines vs. Trend Lines
- Oct 16 — Contrarian Smart Bets
- Oct 13 — You Are Right Where You Are Meant To Be
- Oct 9 — Leadership For Scale
- Oct 4 — The Overview Effect (And Why It Is Important)
- Oct 2 — You Need To Break Your Frame To Get 10x
- Sep 29 — The Power (and Importance) of Connection
- Sep 28 — Do Not Reason — Experience
- Sep 21 — The 30-Second MBA
- Sep 19 — Do Not Fall For The Working Hard Versus Smart Fallacy
- Sep 16 — Future-Proofing Large Companies
- Sep 13 — Stop the Guessathons
- Sep 10 — Predicting the Future — The Implications Wheel
- Sep 7 — Always Be Asking (For Money)
- Sep 4 — The “Working Endless Hours” Debate
- Aug 31 — Why We Keep Asking Our Founders What Their Business Is All About
- Aug 29 — Don’t Become an Entrepreneur (If You’re Not in It for the Long Term)
- Aug 25 — Getting to (Sustaining) Product Market Fit is Tricky
- Aug 25 — Never Walk — A Talk About Entrepreneurship And Running
- Aug 23 — Relationships Grow Exponentially
- Aug 19 — What Do You Stand For?
- Aug 16 — Singularity University Global Summit Interviews
- Aug 12 — Do You Start With the Plinth or the Monkey?
- Aug 9 — Crossing The Chasm
- Aug 7 — Try Instead of Talk
- Aug 5 — KPIs
- Aug 1 — Scaling Wide vs. Scaling Deep
- Jul 31 — Knowledge is Not Intuition
- Jul 28 — Yes, And… vs. No, But…
- Jul 26 — How To Pitch Yourself
- Jul 25 — Get Out Of Your Head
- Jul 22 — Irrepressible
- Jul 20 — Small enough to own. Big enough to matter.
- Jul 14 — Dunbar’s Number
- Jul 12 — Finding The Cracks
- Jul 9 — The Real Work Happens In The Middle
- Jul 6 — What Would You Say… You Do Here?
- Jun 30 — Know Thyself (And Your Team)
- Jun 29 — Being Remarkable Requires The Right Venue
- Jun 26 — Avoid Jumping to Conclusions
- Jun 25 — Do What’s Counterintuitive
- Jun 22 — Don’t Try to Be a Hero
- Jun 20 — The Law of Financial Viability
- Jun 18 — Practice Over Theory
- Jun 16 — Hardware is Hard (as is Software)…
- Jun 13 — The Only Thing You Have Is Time
- Jun 8 — Clear, Concise Communication is Key
- Jun 6 — You Can Build an Empire in ANY Industry
- Jun 5 — Put Yourself On the Spot
- Jun 1 — The Two Ways to Build A Company
- May 29 — The Equity Paradox (Keep It and Give It Away)
- May 26 — How to Hone Your Vision
- May 22 — The Price of Deliberate Practice (or: Why it’s Great to Suck — in Hindsight)
- May 20 — Thriving in an Exponential World (and making a difference doing so!)
- May 19 — Real Opportunities Live at The Edge
- May 17 — How to Prevent “Founder Dynamics”
- May 15 — Hire A Few Very Smart People
- May 11 — Optimize the Heck Out of Things
- May 9 — The Single Most Important Productivity Hack
- May 6 — Find the One Percent
- May 2 — Your Number One Enemy is Comfort
- Apr 30 — Take a Step Back To Make Two Steps Forward
- Apr 27 — Do What’s Really Important
- Apr 24 — The One and Only Truth About Time Management
- Apr 22 — How to Run a Board Meeting
- Apr 21 — Location, Location, Location
- Apr 19 — The Most Important Thing About Storytelling
- Apr 14 — The Single Biggest Reason Why Startups Succeed (And Fail)
- Apr 12 — Why You Have to Build Relationships Before You Can Lean on Them
- Apr 10 — Innovation by (Re-) Combination
- Apr 8 — Weak Ties Tie Stronger
- Apr 6 — The Failure Fetish
- Apr 2 — But Does It Help Your Goals?
- Mar 31 — Version One Sucks
- Mar 29 — Finding Problems
- Mar 27 — Ten Lessons Learned from Singularity University’s Executive Program
- Mar 26 — Answers or Questions?!
- Mar 23 — Habits Drive Behavior Drives Culture
- Mar 20 — What’s Your One Thing
- Mar 17 — Being Embarrassed
- Mar 15 — The 10X Question
- Mar 13 — Selling Might Be Your Most Important Skill
- Mar 9 — The Art of Provisation
- Mar 7 — The Bottleneck Effect
- Mar 4 — (One Way To) Meet Busy People
- Mar 2 — How I Do ToDos
- Feb 28 — Beware The Status Quo Trap
- Feb 23 — The Fine Line Between Talking Yourself Into Something And Real Opportunity
- Feb 17 — It’s (Often) Just Your Perspective
- Feb 14 — When Customers Lead You Astray
- Feb 10 — When Solid Things Turn Into Intangible Verbs
- Feb 7 — The Funding Myth
- Feb 6 — TYBT
- Feb 3 — Make the Best
- Jan 26 — Know What You Want (And Say So)
- Jan 23 — What’s In It For Me?
- Jan 22 — Once You Get Fancy, Fancy Gets Broken
- Jan 18 — You’ve Got an Hour to Save the Planet
- Jan 16 — The Need to Produce
- Jan 13 — Strategery
- Jan 11 — The Best Entrepreneurs Are Like Juvenile Delinquents
- Jan 9 — Do You Know Where You Are Going?
- Jan 7 — Use Your Head as Much as Your Heart
- Jan 5 — What Are You Waiting For? (or: How To Procrastinate)
- Jan 3 — Beyond Mountains There Are Mountains
2016
- Dec 29 — The Hidden Entrepreneurial Opportunities
- Dec 28 — Things That Don’t Make Sense
- Dec 21 — Don’t Edit Your Own Words
- Dec 19 — Pitching — Pixar-Style
- Dec 9 — What to Look for in an Accelerator
- Dec 7 — The Sequencing of Funding
- Dec 5 — The Importance of Perspective
- Nov 30 — The Entrepreneur’s Privilege
- Nov 28 — When Companies Turn A##hole
- Nov 26 — Make Money
- Nov 24 — Jobs To Be Done
- Nov 22 — Fear (Not)
- Nov 20 — Choose to Matter
- Nov 18 — Be Kind To Yourself
- Nov 15 — On Disruption
- Nov 14 — Know What It Takes
- Nov 10 — It’s All About The Talent
- Nov 8 — Max Headroom
- Nov 6 — You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
- Nov 3 — Good or Great
- Nov 1 — The Valley of Carnage
- Oct 29 — Change
- Oct 27 — Peripheral Vision And The Business You Are (Really) In
- Oct 24 — Digitization Creates Abundance
- Oct 23 — The Short Pitch
- Oct 19 — Moonshots (or: How to Solve the World’s Biggest Problems)
- Oct 18 — The Job of a CEO
- Oct 14 — Know Your Sweetspot (And Act Accordingly)
- Oct 11 — Orders of Magnitude
- Oct 9 — Companies Are Teams, Not Families
- Oct 7 — Hype (Don’t Believe)
- Oct 5 — You Can Be An Entrepreneur Anywhere
- Oct 2 — Life Is Better With Friends
- Sep 30 — Law of Averages
- Sep 27 — Everything is Awesome
- Sep 25 — Passion vs. Purpose
- Sep 23 — To Be Or To Do
- Sep 21 — Staying Relevant (Is Harder Than You Think)
- Sep 19 — Unsung Heroes
- Sep 2 — The Day I Could Have Died
- Aug 31 — The High Highs And Low Lows
- Aug 28 — How to Negotiate Your Salary
- Aug 25 — Want Great Employees? Write Better Job Descriptions!
- Aug 22 — Want to Be Successful? Surround Yourself with Good People.
- Aug 20 — What Do You Truly Want To Do?
- Aug 17 — We All Go Through The Same S#%&
- Aug 15 — The Heretic Book is Here
- Aug 14 — Never Build A Company For The Exit
- Aug 12 — Nothing New Under The Sun
- Aug 11 — Better Be Last
- Aug 9 — Share Your Ideas Openly
- Aug 7 — You Are The Guide, Not The Hero
- Aug 3 — The Voices In Our Head
- Aug 1 — Crossing the Chasm
- Jul 30 — Perhaps The Most Important Startup Equation
- Jul 28 — Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?
- Jul 27 — What Kind OF Business Are You In?
- Jul 26 — What Does It Take to Make the Problem Go Away?
- Jul 24 — Arguing from First Principles
- Jul 22 — Tailwinds Matter
- Jul 19 — The World is Truly Your Oyster
- Jul 16 — Why You Should Not Raise VC
- Jul 15 — Where to Start (With Entrepreneurship)
- Jul 12 — How Much Money To Raise
- Jul 9 — Lines, Not Dots
- Jul 8 — Relentless Focus
- Jul 5 — How To Build The Perfect Pitch
- Jul 3 — Fall In Love With The Problem
- Jun 30 — Limit Your Limiting Self-Believes
- Jun 29 — When And How To Fire
- Jun 25 — Hire Smart, Hire Right
- Jun 23 — Are You Doing What Is Important?
- Jun 22 — Build What Matters
- Jun 19 — The Most Important Piece Of Advice
- Jun 17 — On Entrepreneurs, Leaders And Followers
- Jun 15 — Compete Asymmetrically
- Jun 12 — How Much Is Your Startup Worth (The $1M Question)
- Jun 12 — How To Find Awesome Advisors
- Jun 9 — Skin In The Game
- Jun 7 — What Will You Spend Your Time On?
- Jun 4 — Triage Your Life
- Jun 3 — Make It Happen
- May 31 — Building Financial Models Must Not Be Hard
- May 29 — First Impressions Are Paramount
- May 27 — Impatient Patience
- May 26 — Build to Last
- May 22 — Walk Towards The Problem
- May 21 — A Goal Setting Primer
- May 18 — Build a Real Board
- May 16 — Companies Are Bought, Not Sold
- May 15 — There Is No Shame in Seeking Help
- May 12 — The Dichotomy of the Short and the Long Term
- May 11 — The Grind
- May 8 — How to Open Your Pitch
- May 5 — Finding Your Passion
- May 3 — This is Everything
- Apr 29 — Ask Simple Questions
- Apr 28 — Breaking Through The Noise
- Apr 25 — Why Are You Doing This?
- Apr 22 — Let’s All Cut The Bullshit For a Moment
- Apr 19 — Keep it Short And Learn to Bottom-Line
- Apr 15 — Get Back to First Principles
- Apr 12 — The Early Bird Catches the Worm
- Apr 10 — The Most Important Things About Delegating
- Apr 8 — Plugging into the Electric Grid
- Apr 7 — You Can’t Motivate
- Apr 4 — Culture is Strategy
- Apr 3 — Success Requires Courage
- Apr 1 — Management and Leadership
- Mar 30 — Sales Before Marketing
- Mar 27 — Passion Vs Skill
- Mar 25 — Do at Least One Thing a Day
- Mar 23 — Don‘t Fall For The Shiny
- Mar 21 — Meet is Murder
- Mar 18 — What and How to Measure
- Mar 15 — HAVES and WANTS
- Mar 13 — Rising to the Top of the Stack
- Mar 12 — Want To Change The World? You Can!
- Mar 7 — Stop Shoulding All Over Yourself
- Mar 7 — The Current State of Venture Funding
- Mar 6 — Neediness Kills Deals
- Mar 4 — Time Is Precious
- Mar 1 — Being The First-Mover (Typically) Sucks
- Feb 28 — Technical Versus Market Risk
- Feb 26 — Building Great Products
- Feb 24 — Premature Scaling Can Kill Your Company
- Feb 22 — Don‘t Fret The Competition
- Feb 20 — The Two Most Important Questions
- Feb 18 — Convincing The Experts Is Hard
- Feb 16 — The Product Misconception
- Feb 14 — Closing The Deal
- Feb 12 — Sacred Cows
- Feb 8 — The Extra Mile
- Feb 5 — How to Disrupt an Industry
- Feb 3 — On Work And Love
- Jan 31 — The VC Cheat-Sheet
- Jan 28 — The Product Formula
- Jan 26 — Strategy Is What You Don’t Do
- Jan 24 — Dog Years
- Jan 20 — Inches Not Feet
- Jan 18 — The Hiring Bozo Explosion
- Jan 16 — Keep On Pushing
- Jan 14 — What is Important Now?
- Jan 12 — Pinpoint Focus
- Jan 9 — Giving a Damn
- Jan 6 — Those Who Will Not Risk Cannot Win
- Jan 4 — It Is Not About You nor Your Product
- Jan 2 — You Have Nothing But Everything To Prove
2015
- Dec 29 — Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
- Dec 26 — The Mission
- Dec 21 — There Are No Shortcuts
- Dec 20 — The Video Edition
- Dec 18 — What Is Your Second Question?
- Dec 15 — Own It!
- Dec 12 — Focus on the Mission
- Dec 9 — Singularity University Labs Startup Accelerator Demo Day Pitches
- Dec 9 — We Are In This Together
- Dec 7 — It Takes Time
- Dec 5 — Leadership Begins With You
- Dec 2 — Don’t Lose Sight
- Nov 29 — The Learning Never Ends
- Nov 27 — The Right to be Chosen
- Nov 25 — The Treasure of the Moment
- Nov 22 — Following Through
- Nov 20 — The Funding Paradox
- Nov 18 — Constant State of Flux
- Nov 16 — The World is Entrepreneurial
- Nov 13 — Roll The Dice
- Nov 11 — Setting the Pace of Execution
- Nov 9 — The Polarity Has Flipped
- Nov 7 — Start with a Real Problem
- Nov 5 — Your Value
- Nov 3 — It Does Get Better
- Nov 1 — Your Personal Board
- Oct 30 — Engage in Battle
- Oct 28 — Culture Happens No Matter What
- Oct 26 — Meeting Hygiene
- Oct 23 — Five Goals
- Oct 21 — Audacity
- Oct 19 — Thousands of Small Decisions
- Oct 15 — Removing Cognitive Dissonance
- Oct 12 — Safety Is Never First
- Oct 9 — When It’s Time To Stop
- Oct 7 — Are You Climbing The Right Mountain?
- Oct 5 — Knoweth Thy Strength
- Oct 3 — The Next Ten Words
- Oct 1 — Choose Your Path Wisely
- Sep 29 — Time Is The Ultimate Equalizer
- Sep 25 — Predicting The Future
- Sep 23 — Do What’s Right
- Sep 21 — May You Live in Interesting Times
- Sep 19 — How to Build a Truly Great Company
- Sep 17 — How to Maximize Your Growth
- Sep 15 — The Essence of Your Business
- Sep 10 — Doing Things Which Are Counterintuitive
- Sep 8 — Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?
- Sep 6 — Hindsight Is A Wonderful Thing
- Sep 4 — Customer Research
- Sep 2 — Truly Know What You’re Doing
- Aug 31 — How Breakthrough Products Are Made
- Aug 29 — Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
- Aug 25 — Geography Matters
- Aug 22 — The Three Most Disruptive Forces Changing Entrepreneurship
- Aug 18 — For Some Things There Are No Shortcuts
- Aug 16 — What Do You Do Now?
- Aug 12 — Exponential Networking
- Aug 9 — Celebrate Good Times
- Aug 5 — 30 Years, 6 Months and Everything In-Between
- Aug 2 — Settle on Your Priorities
- Jul 31 — Money Is Just an Enabler
- Jul 28 — The Ugly Truth About Consumer Internet
- Jul 24 — Distribution Trumps (Pretty Much) Everything
- Jul 22 — Don’t Convince Your Customer
- Jul 20 — Who Pays?
- Jul 18 — The Essence of Your Work
- Jul 15 — Mid-Year Check-In
- Jul 11 — Innovation, Invention and Starting With The Problem First
- Jul 7 — Why 10x Is Easier
- Jul 2 — Quit your Job
- Jul 2 — The Times They Are A-Changin’
- Jun 30 — It ain’t over till the fat lady sings
- Jun 29 — Aim High
- Jun 28 — People First
- Jun 27 — Lessons In Leadership (or: Asking The Right Questions)
- Jun 26 — Lead From Behind
- Jun 24 — Asking The Right Question
- Jun 22 — One Percent Doesn’t Cut It
- Jun 20 — Pareto Principle vs Crap
- Jun 18 — The Days Are Long But The Years Are Short
- Jun 16 — Family Is Everything
- Jun 14 — Hitting The Wall
- Jun 10 — Think Like A Dictionary
- Jun 7 — The Dichotomy Of Time
- Jun 5 — The Old Lore About A-People
- Jun 3 — Conway’s Law (Or: Organizational Structures Are Not Hard)
- Jun 1 — The Ultimate Truth For Every Startup
- May 30 — Fear Irrelevance More Than Failure
- May 28 — The Four Most Important Questions You Can Ask Yourself
- May 26 — Time Is Of The Essence
- May 24 — Nobody Says No
- May 21 — Tomorrow Today
- May 19 — What Entrepreneurs Are Made Of
- May 17 — What To Spend Money On
- May 14 — The Most Important Question You Can Ask
- May 12 — Ten Years (You’re In This For The Long Run)
- May 10 — Don’t Listen To The Bozos
- May 8 — Are You Focussing On The Right Things?
- May 5 — Don’t Listen To Me
- May 2 — Maybe Baby
- Apr 28 — The Intersection Of Domain And Tech
- Apr 25 — Hotel California
- Apr 22 — Never Burn Your Bridges
- Apr 20 — Lessons In Leadership
- Apr 18 — You Need Operators
- Apr 15 — Surround Yourself With A-People
- Apr 11 — Why Google (Or Facebook, Or …) Won’t Eat You
- Apr 9 — Adult Supervision
- Apr 7 — Language Is Powerful (Or: There Are No Fucking Unicorns)
- Apr 5 — Money Doesn’t Come For Free
- Apr 2 — Scaling The Mountain
- Mar 30 — Coachability
- Mar 26 — The Crunch And You
- Mar 24 — Find Your Muse
- Mar 22 — On Finding The Right People
- Mar 19 — Question Everything (From Time to Time)
- Mar 17 — All Kinds Of People
- Mar 15 — The Rate Of Change
- Mar 13 — Big Game Hunting
- Mar 11 — The Mental Game
- Mar 9 — Rain Making
- Mar 7 — Not All Riches Are in Silicon Valley
- Mar 5 — Let’s Talk About Leadership
- Mar 2 — Don’t Listen To The Critics
- Feb 28 — Bottom Up / Top Down Validation
- Feb 26 — What Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Pitching
- Feb 23 — A Young Heretic’s One-Year Reflection
- Feb 21 — Focus On The Problem (or: Don’t Built The Next Fisher Space Pen)
- Feb 18 — Your Team Is Everything
- Feb 15 — Trial By Fire
- Feb 13 — Love The Process
- Feb 11 — Flying Pigs
- Feb 9 — Success (Makes You Stupid)
- Feb 7 — What I Look For When I Fund Someone
- Feb 5 — Do Epic Shit
- Feb 3 — How I Work
- Feb 1 — Marginal Gains
- Jan 30 — It Gets Harder (The Older You Are)
- Jan 28 — Ready When You Are Ready
- Jan 26 — Perseverance
- Jan 24 — Stop Being Nice
- Jan 22 — Conscious Capitalism (And Non-Profits)
- Jan 20 — The Problem With OKRs
- Jan 18 — In The Long-Term Be Greedy
- Jan 16 — Don’t Settle For Anything Less
- Jan 14 — More Than The Sum Of Its Parts
- Jan 12 — Forget The Rulebook
- Jan 10 — The Biggest Startup Mistakes
- Jan 8 — Your Attitude Defines Your Success
- Jan 6 — Founder Equity
- Jan 4 — Insane Greatness (Requires A Lot Of No’s)
2014
- Dec 29 — The Price Of Publicity
- Dec 27 — It’s Not That Complicated
- Dec 26 — Dare
- Dec 23 — How To Find Your Next Startup
- Dec 21 — Ideas — Not People
- Dec 18 — Intentional Serendipity
- Dec 16 — The Two Rules For Meetings
- Dec 14 — Get A Response From Someone Busy
- Dec 13 — Insanity
- Dec 11 — What Did You Learn?
- Dec 8 — Who’s Watching Your Back?
- Dec 6 — Do It Right Or Don’t Do It At All
- Dec 4 — Always Run. Never Walk.
- Dec 2 — Conjectures versus Actuals
- Nov 30 — Climbing The Mountain
- Nov 27 — Thank You
- Nov 25 — Surround Yourself With The Right People
- Nov 23 — Probability Analysis
- Nov 22 — Make New Mistakes
- Nov 19 — A Heretical Holiday Gift
- Nov 17 — True Passion
- Nov 15 — The Deep Dive
- Nov 12 — Cut The Jargon
- Nov 10 — Is It Worth Doing?
- Nov 6 — Check Your References
- Nov 4 — How to Get (Product) Feedback
- Nov 2 — We Are All Entrepreneurs
- Nov 1 — Ignore The Rules (And Follow Them)
- Oct 31 — Feature Creep
- Oct 29 — No Maps
- Oct 27 — Leaders Eat Last
- Oct 26 — What’s Your Personal Mission Statement
- Oct 24 — Lead From Behind
- Oct 22 — The Open Source Disruption
- Oct 21 — Avoid The Shiny
- Oct 19 — I Worked All Night
- Oct 17 — Validate Your Assumptions
- Oct 15 — Efficiency vs Effectiveness
- Oct 13 — Startups and the First Law of Thermodynamics
- Oct 11 — We Are All In This Together
- Oct 9 — There Are More Than Enough Problems Worth Solving
- Oct 6 — Build For The Future — Not The Present
- Oct 5 — Crossing The Chasm
- Oct 3 — What Are You Waiting For?
- Oct 1 — Y Combinator’s Startup Class
- Sep 30 — S.W.F.F.
- Sep 29 — What Does Winning Look Like?
- Sep 27 — The Status Quo Is Always Short-Term
- Sep 25 — The Definition Of A (Your) Business
- Sep 23 — Why You Should Embrace Failure
- Sep 22 — Choose Your Tribe Carefully
- Sep 20 — The Purpose Of A Startup
- Sep 17 — The Doubt Club
- Sep 16 — Deliberate Amateurs
- Sep 13 — Failure Is Between You And You (And Nobody Else)
- Sep 11 — Raise Capital When You’re Ready For It
- Sep 9 — Our Venture Capital Obsession
- Sep 8 — What’s Next?
- Sep 6 — Entrepreneurial StrengthsFinder
- Sep 5 — Ten Lessons
- Sep 4 — Focus!
- Sep 1 — I’ve Seen the Future — and It’s Virtual
- Aug 31 — You Have High Standards. Now What?!
- Aug 30 — The Impostor Syndrome
- Aug 27 — Work With Me (At Singularity University)
- Aug 26 — You May Just Get What You Asked For
- Aug 24 — A Gift And A Question
- Aug 23 — The Reality Check
- Aug 21 — Everything is a Product
- Aug 19 — Shut Up And Listen
- Aug 17 — Remember to Dance
- Aug 15 — Products vs Solutions
- Aug 13 — The Creation Story
- Aug 11 — The Rules For Entrepreneurship
- Aug 10 — It’s All About The Journey
- Aug 9 — First Principles
- Aug 7 — What’s Your Business Model
- Aug 5 — Know What To Focus On
- Aug 4 — The Micro-Managing Antidote
- Aug 2 — Beg For Feedback
- Jul 31 — A Personal Update
- Jul 30 — Brace For Impact
- Jul 28 — Zero to One
- Jul 26 — Mentor Others
- Jul 24 — Make The Main Thing The Main Thing
- Jul 23 — Know Whom You’re Talking To
- Jul 22 — Storytelling
- Jul 20 — Don’t Emulate the Past — Be the Future
- Jul 19 — Sweat the Details
- Jul 18 — Solve It Once and for All
- Jul 17 — Patience Is a Virtue
- Jul 16 — Everything Counts
- Jul 14 — First Followers
- Jul 13 — It’s Easier than You Think. Just Start.
- Jul 12 — Gamifying Entrepreneurship
- Jul 10 — Think and Act Big
- Jul 9 — You Are The Future
- Jul 8 — GyShiDo
- Jul 7 — The Money Litmus Test
- Jul 6 — Don’t Be X for Y
- Jul 5 — Lemmings
- Jul 4 — On Money
- Jul 3 — Question Everything
- Jul 1 — Intros? Yes, but Please Do Them Right!
- Jun 30 — Failure is Inevitable
- Jun 29 — Sometimes You Have to Get out to Get in Again
- Jun 28 — The Future is Micro
- Jun 27 — Focus on What You Can Control
- Jun 26 — Man Barks at Dog
- Jun 25 — Shades of Gray
- Jun 24 — The Hard Things
- Jun 23 — On Networking (Again)
- Jun 22 — The Better Leg
- Jun 21 — Hacking Intros
- Jun 20 — Monkeys on Your Shoulder
- Jun 19 — Pascal’s Wager
- Jun 18 — The Art of the Follow-Up
- Jun 17 — The Litmus Test Question
- Jun 16 — In Which Business Are You Really?
- Jun 15 — The Hidden Giants
- Jun 14 — The Time Is Now
- Jun 13 — Share Your Authenticity (and Other Tips for Pitching Well)
- Jun 12 — Per Aspera Ad Astra
- Jun 11 — Don’t Drink Your Own Kool-Aid
- Jun 10 — You’re Not off the Hook
- Jun 9 — You Can’t Teach Heart
- Jun 8 — Make People Feel
- Jun 7 — The Hourglass Shaped World
- Jun 6 — It Never Made Any Sense
- Jun 5 — Don’t Do It for the Money — Seriously
- Jun 4 — Entrepreneurs Anonymous
- Jun 3 — No One Owes Us Anything
- Jun 2 — Honey Badger Don’t Care
- Jun 1 — Go Where the Growth Is
- May 31 — Growth vs Profitability
- May 30 — Surround Yourself with Awesomeness
- May 28 — Solve real problems. Don’t invent new ones.
- May 27 — You Better Be Fast
- May 26 — You Might as Well…
- May 24 — Life Lessons From Navy SEAL Training
- May 23 — Don’t Let Other People Define You
- May 21 — Advice on Advisors (Part II)
- May 19 — How to Build Your (Advisory) Board
- May 18 — Stop Comparing Yourself to Others
- May 17 — Know Why You’re Asking for Money
- May 16 — Putting Things Into Perspective
- May 14 — Beware of Too Much Customer Feedback
- May 13 — It Takes Two Years
- May 12 — Different People for Different Times
- May 11 — Live a Life Not a Career
- May 10 — It’s Intense
- May 9 — Money Is Not the Goal
- May 8 — The Heretic T-Shirt is Here!
- May 7 — On Happiness (Symposium Oeconomicum)
- May 6 — The Olympic Deception — Part II
- May 5 — The Olympic Deception
- May 3 — Forget the Competition — Focus on Your Customer
- May 2 — The Heretic’s Call to Arms
- May 1 — Ideas vs Execution
- Apr 30 — Focus on Building the Brand
- Apr 28 — Lego Bricks vs The Millenium Falcon
- Apr 27 — We Are the Definition of Venture
- Apr 26 — You Just Can’t Know
- Apr 25 — The Blessing of Not Enough Money
- Apr 23 — MVP or MVP?!
- Apr 22 — Founder Dating or Getting Married after Your Third Date
- Apr 21 — Jumping over Your Own Shadow
- Apr 20 — Highs and Lows
- Apr 18 — The Future Is a Renewable Resource
- Apr 17 — Managing People Older (And More Experienced) Than You
- Apr 15 — We Need You To Inspire Your Community
- Apr 14 — I Could Use Your Help
- Apr 13 — Did You Warm The Cup?
- Apr 11 — The Heretic Hangout On Air
- Apr 10 — The Benefits of TV Dinners
- Apr 8 — Why So Negative?
- Apr 7 — The Business (Social) Networking Primer
- Apr 5 — On Mozilla (Chaords)
- Apr 4 — Verb. Target. Outcome.
- Apr 3 — How Do You Know Your Startup Is Having Impact
- Apr 1 — On Advice
- Mar 31 — The Two Pizza Rule
- Mar 30 — Why I Became An Entrepreneur (And You Should Too)
- Mar 25 — Complexity Kills
- Mar 24 — You Never Asked
- Mar 21 — The F-Word
- Mar 19 — What’s The Worst That Can Happen?
- Mar 17 — The Ten Percent Rule (On Following Up)
- Mar 16 — Do Something Meaningful
- Mar 15 — One Size Fits None
- Mar 11 — The One Thing You Should Never Ask An Investor
- Mar 10 — Make It Easy
- Mar 9 — The Single Most Important Thing You Can Do
- Mar 7 — Co-Founders And My Fiancé
- Mar 6 — The Bowling Alley Strategy
- Mar 5 — Protect Your Time
- Mar 4 — Never Worry About The Results
- Mar 3 — I’m Terrified — And It’s Okay
- Mar 1 — You Deserve It
- Feb 28 — You Will Never Ever Know
- Feb 26 — Ad Nauseam (Or Not?)
- Feb 25 — Ad Nauseam
- Feb 23 — It’s All About Happiness
- Feb 22 — How To Ask For Help
- Feb 21 — How You Know When You Know
- Feb 19 — Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is
- Feb 18 — Why We Need You
- Feb 17 — Theory Of Change
- Jan 31 — Vacation
- Jan 29 — Charge What You Are Worth
- Jan 28 — Help A Fellow Heretic
- Jan 27 — Test Your Assumptions
- Jan 26 — The Owner’s Manual
- Jan 25 — Bless His Heart
- Jan 24 — Coming Alive
- Jan 22 — Expectations and Trust
- Jan 21 — The Voice In Your Head
- Jan 20 — There Is No Try
- Jan 19 — Premature Optimization
- Jan 18 — Cut The Bullshit
- Jan 17 — Trust The Box
- Jan 15 — No Fear
- Jan 13 — Interview Your Heart Out
- Jan 12 — No Fate But What We Make
- Jan 9 — No Regrets
- Jan 8 — Always Know What You Need
- Jan 6 — Bottom Lining
- Jan 5 — Fourteen Thousand Chances
- Jan 4 — Hire What You Need
- Jan 3 — Yes, No Or Counteroffer
- Jan 2 — No Time To Lose
- Jan 1 — The Heretic’s Golden Ticket
2013
- Dec 31 — Twenty-Fourteen
- Dec 30 — A Name Is A Name By Another Name
- Dec 28 — The (Heretic) Network — Part II
- Dec 27 — Don’t Baby Your Employees
- Dec 26 — The Stony Path
- Dec 24 — Superman
- Dec 23 — It All Has To Fit
- Dec 22 — Always Be Asking
- Dec 20 — Finding Your Purpose
- Dec 18 — What Would You Do With $20M?
- Dec 17 — A Heretic Offer
- Dec 15 — On Friends and Colleagues
- Dec 14 — Hire Right
- Dec 13 — Everything You Need Is Right Here
- Dec 11 — Beating The Dead Horse
- Dec 10 — Introducing The Heretic Network
- Dec 8 — The Heretic Network
- Dec 6 — The Event Bet
- Dec 5 — Learn & Steal — Don’t Copy
- Dec 4 — Relational Curation
- Dec 3 — Having A Bad Day?
- Dec 2 — Your Culture
- Dec 1 — Say No And Keep The Door Open
- Nov 30 — Happiness At Work
- Nov 29 — Let’s Talk About Pitching
- Nov 28 — Being Thankful (And Learnings from Google)
- Nov 27 — 10X not 10%
- Nov 26 — Give Yourself Some Credit
- Nov 25 — Humble Pie
- Nov 18 — You Are Your Network
- Nov 16 — Life Will Go On
- Nov 15 — Building A Cathedral
- Nov 13 — Excellence Takes Practice
- Nov 11 — On Being An Entrepreneur
- Nov 10 — This Is Going To Be FEPIC
- Nov 7 — Three Hundred / Commit — Part 2
- Nov 6 — Commit
- Nov 5 — Hate Or Love
- Nov 4 — Choose Your Perspective
- Oct 31 — Lucky Or Smart
- Oct 30 — On Empathy (or Why Loving Someone Is Easy)
- Oct 29 — A Personal Update
- Oct 28 — Don’t Try To Predict The Future
- Oct 25 — First Time CEOs
- Oct 22 — The Right Stuff
- Oct 21 — Whom Are You Building For?
- Oct 18 — Use Chopsticks
- Oct 17 — The Symbiosis Of Success And Failure
- Oct 16 — Are You Waiting For Permission?
- Oct 15 — Building Your Mentor Network
- Oct 14 — Do What’s Meaningful To You
- Oct 10 — The Smart Way To Funding
- Oct 9 — How Big A Problem Are You Solving?
- Oct 8 — Digging Yourself Out Of The Hole
- Oct 3 — On Sweating
- Oct 2 — Thinking Big (Is Scary As Hell)
- Oct 1 — Finding Your Co-Founders
- Sep 30 — Staring Into The Abyss
- Sep 29 — Chaotic Discontinuity
- Sep 27 — Finding The Opportunity
- Sep 26 — In It For The Long Haul
- Sep 25 — A Random Note On Failure
- Sep 24 — Insanity
- Sep 23 — Accept Responsibility
- Sep 22 — A Problem Worth Solving
- Sep 20 — Nothing to Hide
- Sep 19 — Second System Effect
- Sep 18 — Cultivate Your Cheerleaders
- Sep 17 — Speed is your Superpower and Kryptonite
- Sep 16 — The Generalist Trap
- Sep 15 — Dong Chim’ed by Liquidation Preferences
- Sep 13 — When Good Enough is Good Enough
- Sep 12 — How I Work
- Sep 11 — Startups are a Dance
- Sep 10 — Startups Are Not Hard Science
- Sep 9 — On Becoming a Coach
- Sep 6 — Don’t give a $%@&
- Sep 5 — No Fate But What We Make
- Sep 3 — Primer On Networking
- Sep 2 — Reject Group Thinking
- Sep 1 — Technology Looking For A Problem
- Aug 30 — Sleeping under your desk
- Aug 29 — Do The Work
- Aug 28 — Why we do what we do
- Aug 27 — Keep Going
- Aug 26 — Believe in Extraordinary Misfits
- Aug 25 — Time to Rethink the Shiny
- Aug 23 — On Selling
- Aug 22 — Creating Culture
- Aug 21 — More than one Chance
- Aug 20 — The Single Founder
- Aug 19 — Creating User Delight
- Aug 18 — Common vs Preferred Stock
- Aug 16 — Man Bites Dog
- Aug 15 — Stop Pussyfooting Around
- Aug 14 — Failing Hurts
- Aug 13 — The Cardinal Mistake of a CEO
- Aug 12 — The Intricacies of Financing
- Aug 9 — The Sabbath Manifesto
- Aug 8 — The Mantra Economy
- Aug 7 — Finding your Unfair Advantage
- Aug 6 — Loud and Clear
- Aug 5 — Scrumtrulescent Scrumptious Scrum
- Aug 4 — Just Ask
- Aug 3 — Work is Worship
- Aug 2 — The Future is Now
- Aug 1 — Forget your tools
- Jul 31 — Love your Customer
- Jul 30 — VMOVA — Vision, Mission, Operating Values
- Jul 29 — People are Dumb (NOT)
- Jul 28 — Letting off steam
- Jul 26 — On User Testing
- Jul 25 — Are you solving the right problem?
- Jul 24 — The Five Pillars
- Jul 23 — Don’t wait for permission
- Jul 22 — Energy begets Energy
- Jul 21 — On Patience
- Jul 20 — I think we’re a clone now
- Jul 19 — Celebrate!
- Jul 18 — Cash (Flow) is King
- Jul 17 — Be ready for what you wish for
- Jul 16 — TYBT
- Jul 15 — When to let (someone) go
- Jul 14 — Silicon Valley History — The Reading List
- Jul 12 — Reflecting…
- Jul 11 — The “Thank You” Litmus Test
- Jul 10 — Deconstructing Apple
- Jul 9 — Have a voice, but have something to say
- Jul 8 — Inspiring Great Design
- Jul 7 — Jobs
- Jul 6 — On Micromanagement
- Jul 5 — Problems worth solving
- Jul 4 — Being intro’ed? Here are your to-dos.
- Jul 3 — Invest into yourself
- Jul 2 — The tale of two lumberjacks
- Jul 1 — Knowledge versus Wisdom
- Jun 30 — Two Hundred
- Jun 29 — We need YOU
- Jun 28 — The Long View and You
- Jun 27 — The Long View
- Jun 26 — The Art of Being Human
- Jun 25 — Don’t settle for second best
- Jun 24 — This is the best shot you ever got
- Jun 23 — Are you solving the right problem?
- Jun 18 — Putting The Cart Before The Horse
- Jun 17 — Failure
- Jun 16 — Do you work for the right company?
- Jun 15 — Hiring Awesome People
- Jun 14 — (Good) Leadership
- Jun 13 — The Time is Now
- Jun 12 — Design Manifesto
- Jun 11 — Startup Teams are like Soccer Teams
- Jun 10 — Your Words are Powerful
- Jun 9 — Falling in Love
- Jun 8 — You are not alone…
- Jun 7 — Expert Advice (or Incubator-Lala-Land)
- Jun 6 — Do Care
- Jun 5 — The Give and Take of Equity
- Jun 4 — Treat them like the Messiah
- Jun 3 — Employee Number One
- Jun 2 — Ignore, Use and Appreciate your Competition
- Jun 1 — Ask Why More Often
- May 31 — Saboteur
- May 30 — Guest Post — The Curse of Binary Thinking
- May 29 — Mary Meeker Report
- May 28 — Sparks versus Accelerants
- May 27 — Fear
- May 26 — Test your Hypotheses
- May 25 — Acting Small
- May 24 — The “Less than 5 Minutes” Rule
- May 23 — Strengthen your Strengths
- May 22 — Follow up (or shut up)
- May 21 — What to look for in an Advisor
- May 20 — Doing it Right
- May 19 — Follow your Gut
- May 18 — Cultivate your Culture
- May 17 — Advisor Compensation
- May 16 — Stay Stupid
- May 15 — Don’t compare yourself to others
- May 14 — Entrepreneurship is a Craft
- May 13 — What to look for in an Incubator/Accelerator
- May 12 — Think Big
- May 11 — How to Choose
- May 10 — Foster Vigorous Dissent
- May 9 — Ignore the Critics
- May 8 — Hindsight and the Primordial Soup
- May 7 — The Future is Now and it’s Yours
- May 6 — Success is not an Exit
- May 5 — Making it Real
- May 4 — What’s your Passion?
- May 3 — We’ve reached the Peak
- May 2 — A cautionary tale
- May 1 — Practice (Customer) Empathy
- Apr 27 — Through the Long Lens
- Apr 25 — Learn to say NO
- Apr 25 — Yes — You Can
- Apr 23 — And versus But
- Apr 22 — Sundays are for Starters — LinkedIn
- Apr 19 — Stick with it
- Apr 17 — Unreasonably Excited
- Apr 16 — Boston
- Apr 15 — Big Ideas & Elevator Pitches
- Apr 14 — Sundays are for Starters — Finding your Team
- Apr 13 — Letting Go
- Apr 12 — Hard and Fair
- Apr 11 — From the Marketing Dissenter — Is Your Start-up Marketing like a Start-up?
- Apr 10 — Give yourself some credit
- Apr 9 — Earn it
- Apr 8 — Ideas are cheap and plentiful
- Apr 7 — Sundays are for Starters — Finding your Investor
- Apr 6 — The Lean Startup Deception
- Apr 5 — Always Sell
- Apr 4 — Sequencing
- Apr 3 — Getting Real
- Apr 2 — Ask The Heretic — Investor/Advisor/Partner Communications
- Apr 1 — Hire behind the curve
- Mar 31 — Sundays are for Starters — Network like a Pro
- Mar 30 — Onward and Upward — The NEW Heretic is here!
- Mar 29 — Spread Your Risk
- Mar 28 — It’s all there waiting for you
- Mar 27 — What do you do here?
- Mar 26 — Needs and Wants
- Mar 25 — Why Investors Don’t Say No
- Mar 24 — Sundays are for Starters — Networking
- Mar 23 — Forget TechCrunch
- Mar 22 — Practice Empathy
- Mar 21 — Don’t just not be an asshole
- Mar 20 — Game Changing Entrepreneurship
- Mar 19 — Anatomy of a Startup — eBay
- Mar 18 — Quick Note on Investments
- Mar 17 — Pitch Deck Sunday — The Flow
- Mar 16 — Ask The Heretic — Investor Relations
- Mar 15 — The Funding Oxymoron
- Mar 14 — Ubiquitous Computing
- Mar 13 — From the Technology Dissenter — The Focal-Point of Your Startup
- Mar 12 — Guard your Reputation
- Mar 11 — Make It Count
- Mar 10 — Pitch Deck Sunday — The Ask
- Mar 9 — US Marines do cry
- Mar 8 — The Principle of Affordable Loss
- Mar 7 — Sudden Cofounder Loss Syndrome
- Mar 6 — The Bird in Your Hand
- Mar 5 — Quality over Quantity
- Mar 4 — Anatomy of a Startup — Instagram
- Mar 3 — Pitch Deck Sunday — The Business Model Slide
- Mar 2 — Seven Years
- Mar 1 — A-Players, Superstars and Ninjas
- Feb 28 — From the Marketing Dissenter — Want to be a Marketing Ace? Practice Empathy
- Feb 27 — (Most) Incubators have it backwards
- Feb 26 — Hypothesis Testing
- Feb 25 — After Action Review
- Feb 15 — Vacation
- Feb 14 — Brutal Intellectual Honesty
- Feb 13 — Make Rain
- Feb 12 — Be greedy
- Feb 11 — No Maps
- Feb 10 — Pitch Deck Sunday — A word about design
- Feb 9 — On Leadership
- Feb 8 — From the Marketing Dissenter — Your Customers are Key to Creating Value
- Feb 7 — The fish stinks from the head down
- Feb 6 — No f’ing clue
- Feb 5 — Big Company Syndrome
- Feb 4 — In the long run…
- Feb 3 — Pitch Deck Sunday — Finances
- Feb 2 — Company Culture
- Feb 1 — Weekend Reading — The Art of the Start
- Jan 31 — From the UX Dissenter — UX of a Wine Glass
- Jan 30 — The Heretic’s Mantra
- Jan 29 — Customer Zero
- Jan 28 — You must be insane
- Jan 27 — Pitch Deck Sunday — Advisors
- Jan 26 — The Price of Joining an Incubator
- Jan 25 — Trends vs Ideas
- Jan 24 — Don’t follow the trend
- Jan 23 — How to be viral
- Jan 22 — The Validation Litmus-Test
- Jan 21 — Polarize on Purpose
- Jan 20 — Pitch Deck Sunday — The Team Slide
- Jan 19 — First Mover Advantage
- Jan 18 — True Passion
- Jan 17 — Short is Sexy
- Jan 16 — Quick and Dirty User Feedback
- Jan 15 — Change your Language
- Jan 14 — Raising Money is Hard
- Jan 13 — Pitch Deck Sunday — 101
- Jan 12 — The Essence of Leadership
- Jan 11 — The v2 Gap
- Jan 10 — Never Ever Do This
- Jan 9 — Don’t Die in Beauty — Part 2
- Jan 8 — Don’t Die in Beauty
- Jan 7 — Seven Lessons
- Jan 6 — Twenty Grand. Really?
- Jan 5 — My Talk at the Joomla! World Conference
- Jan 4 — Mobile is just a Form Factor
- Jan 3 — A Tale of Liquidation Preferences
- Jan 2 — Don’t settle for anything less
- Jan 1 — Make 2013 Awesome
2012
- Dec 30 — The Soul-Crushing Reality of Big Companies
- Dec 29 — How NOT to Ask
- Dec 28 — Make this your motto for 2013
- Dec 27 — For crying out loud — Follow up
- Dec 26 — Recommended Watching
- Dec 24 — Less But Better
- Dec 22 — Happy Holidays
- Dec 21 — Hacking the System
- Dec 20 — Lifestyle Business
- Dec 19 — Products and Movements
- Dec 18 — Start with Why
- Dec 17 — Speed. It’s all you have.
- Dec 16 — Sunday’s Random Product Love
- Dec 15 — Linking Mission to Strategy and Action
- Dec 14 — Quality over Quantity
- Dec 13 — Make Life Awesome
- Dec 12 — Never walk.
- Dec 11 — Ask. Just ask.
- Dec 10 — Mozilla for Entrepreneurs
- Dec 9 — Quit your Job
- Dec 8 — Weekend Reading
- Dec 7 — Lucky or Smart?
- Dec 6 — Is Silicon Valley seriously only about money?
- Dec 4 — Aim High
- Dec 2 — The strangest places
- Dec 1 — And this is the reason why markets fail
- Nov 30 — I’ve Been Everywhere Man — or Why I love the Web
- Nov 29 — What to learn from Failure
- Nov 27 — Leave Your Legacy
- Nov 26 — Okay. I have to write this.
- Nov 25 — One Freakin’ Billion Dollars
- Nov 24 — Entrepreneurial Heroes
- Nov 23 — Do the Work
- Nov 22 — Pivot my ass.
- Nov 21 — Apps. Ah, screw that.
- Nov 20 — Is the Internet soon to be owned by Big Corp?
- Nov 19 — So let’s get this party started…