Last night I finally watched the Netflix documentary FYRE: The greatest party that never happened. I'm late to the party, I know. An ocean of digital ink has already been devoted to this documentary since it first aired on 18th January. In honesty, I wasn't planning to watch or write about it. …
Many companies claim that their talent is one of their most valued assets, but how many back that up with concrete actions? According to Laszlo Bock, head of Google’s People Operations, their TGIF (Thank God It’s Friday) meetings might have something to do with the company’s active and engaged employees. …
Pitching. It is not as simple as getting on stage and sell your company. A lot is done preparing behind the scenes. Numbers, statistics, that ubiquitous powerpoint deck. SaaS companies have it the worst. They need to have the typical MRR and burn as well as LTV, CAC and churn. “So …
Facebook is the perfect example of a strategy based on paranoia, with its obsessive attention to what is going on in the environment around it. For any company, developing its activity within the highly competitive social networks is extremely complex: changes in trends are constant, as are changes in tastes …
Co-Working spaces are fast outpacing monolithic workspaces in terms of commercial real estate absorption in India. While the share of IT/ITeS in the share of transacted space is following a declining trend, co-working spaces are proliferating in the country. Real estate services company, JLL estimates a 40–50% growth in flexible office …
A fairly common characteristic of successful start-ups is charismatic, driven founders with take-no-prisoner competitive mentalities, as was illustrated earlier in this chapter in the example of Kalanick and the leadership values at Uber. After all, it takes a thick skin and powerful ego to get through the inevitable disappointments that …
The answer is yes. There is a reason why there are thousands of people selling phone cases on Amazon or Taobao is that every one of them has customers buying their cases. There is a reason why there are thousands of sellers offline and online, and you can just be …
Kazakhstan, one of the largest countries in the world blessed with natural resources and now tech innovative investments. Kazakhstan has enormous national wealth, about 85% of which falls on the natural resource potential. This country with oddly beautiful people is among the top 15 countries in the world when it …
A business model helps to clarify a company’s main purpose, such as who they’re serving, how they help, and how the company can sustain its operations. A business model is distinctly different from an organization’s strategy, which typically addresses product, pricing, and marketing decisions. A formal business plan, however, may …
What is the best way to bring a knowledge framework to the world — in the open — to allow as much as possible teams, and individuals of any kind to use it, reflect on it, give feedback and contribute back? That’s a tough question, we’re learning our way through. As the loyal reader will know, …
