There’s something nice about getting thoughts/updates from friends on a platform without a feedback loop (like Telegram channels); without ability to respond, you’re able to just enjoy.

@scottbelsky @nvs feedback loop essentially becomes your inner voice relaying how you believe people are consuming / enjoying what you’ve produced Or people texting you affirmation etc Similar to people hitting you up after sending a newsletter saying what…

@solsticeretouch @3dfordesigners @Awakeland3D @LensDistortions If you already have an Adobe Creative Cloud membership you can go through the cancelation process and get an option to reduce your monthly price to $32 a month. #BlackFriday #BlackFriday2019

1/ When Kraft first came up with the concept of Pizza Lunchables (those cold trays with customizable sauces & toppings), it tested terribly with focus groups of mothers. Moms everywhere said "This is an awful idea, a really awful idea." The concept got the…

Xiaomi’s the Apple of China, and one of these companies making it obvious that the era of “junk Chinese products” is ending, if there was any doubt left. China is starting to compete with the rest of the world not just on price, but on quality too. https…

Interesting to watch, as Amazon tries to marginalize brand preferences with algorithmically recommended alternatives (many of them “house brands”), @Shopify is empowering millions of merchants to build brands and customer relationships. 👌🏼 @tobi + team. …

When I was in my mid-20s and had just gotten a job in venture capital, I read a piece on Alan Shugart, the larger than life founder of Seagate, one of the most successful disk drive companies. Alan was quoted as saying that “cash is more important than your…

Why B2B companies buy airport ads: Vast majority of IT buyers travel and according to Nielsen: 80% notice airport ads 42% take action after seeing an airport ad 36% visit a website associated with an airport ad 900M flyers will board a plane via an HSBC-branded…

Looool, this is an iPhone 11 ad that Apple runs on Douyin (TikTok) in China 😂😂😂. What do you think? @swodinsky @TaylorLorenz @jiatolentino https://t.co/EYhu4Mjcau

The government used to allocate electromagnetic spectrum via a lottery system. One time, "a group of dentists won a lottery and immediately sold their license to a telephone company for a $41 million windfall profit." 😬

Shopify has the potential to become web equivalent of App Store - discovery vs direct search https://t.co/YzgCK0Sg91

I'm upgrading Kegan/Kohlberg to 9 stages, 2 dimensions, and cute animals.

Sam Zell on demographics and demand https://t.co/AxjVueCJvW

In celebration of Black Friday / Cyber Monday retail holiday, this report has been through November 30. If you’d like access to more of these reports, you can join the Executive Membership at…

Change in the early 2000s: Open source allowed for companies to be validated on seed funding Changes in the late 2010s: Software market size + adoption rate allow for companies to scale fairly big on seed funding

As entrepreneurs, we are all looking for the magic bullet to take our business to the next level, but we often never find it. It turns out though just doing the hard work of grinding over time is often the best way to succeed anyway. https://t.co/EEejEhCd0C

It is tempting to search for the one magic move that will make everything better. A new VP of Sales. A new database layer in your tech stack. A new brand for your company. Moving everything to the cloud. More capital in the business. But it is rarely one…

This one is long enough and idiosyncratic enough to go under the fold...

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