Jim Collins coached Jeff Bezos and Amazon. He estimates that only 3% of the world has figured out their “Ikagai” or “Hedgehog”. Here’s what they are and how you find yours:

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The Ultimate List of Product Metrics: Extended Edition 1. Acquisition Metrics 2. Activation Metrics 3. Engagement Metrics 4. Retention Metrics 5. Revenue Metrics 6. Referral Metrics 7. Lean and Agile Metrics 8. Conclusions and resources The classification below is

Execution is the only moat. And the more successful your company becomes, the easier it is to rest on your laurels and not execute. So rage against bureaucracy and fight to keep your: - Customer obsession - Ownership mindset - Sense of urgency Only the paranoid survive.

You won't accomplish much without great teamwork because you need to work with others to accomplish things. Many of you have been asking about how to achieve happiness within your organization, so I wanted to share some of my principles for great teamwork that I learned along

“The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The second most common question is if you have any ideas for their startup.” - Sam Altman To help founders with this question, we’ve put together a list of the 20 best links we’ve come

$NVDA CEO's advice to students: "resilience matters in success...I don't know how to teach it to you except for, 'I hope suffering happens to you'..greatness comes from character & character...is formed out of people who suffered..I wish upon you ample doses of pain &

AI will transform software sales. Most of the discourse so far has focused on how AI upends the sellers’ worldview. But the buyers’ process will also evolve. When researching software, operational buyers & procurement teams alike will use AI to research different offerings.

⬛ What does a structured term sheet look like? Anything that deviates from these market terms. Some years ago, an associate at a law firm told me that Pay-to-play provisions were "very common" at Series A—as in, a Pay-to-play provision was inserted in almost all venture deals

Reminder - if someone is making intros / doing work on your behalf, make it as easy as possible for them: 1. Fresh email w new subject & short intro blurb with a clear ask in it that they can forward w/ 0 work 2. New email per action item they are helping you with 3. No

Pricing an AI product will be a defining question in software for the next few years. AI products offer productivity gains. But greater productivity may reduce the demand for seats over time, ultimately decreasing the size of software markets. We can observe the market trends

Best MVP description I have ever seen.

Slow meals = life. From Daniel Gilbert of Harvard to Martin Seligman of Princeton, the “happiness” (self-reported well-being) researchers seem to agree on one thing: Mealtime with friends and loved ones is a direct predictor of well-being. Have at least one 2-to-3-hour dinner

"The simplest excuse in sales: The Product Isn't Good Enough. There's often truth in it. But it's also the lamest excuse for missing plan." with Kyle Norton

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"Venture capital spent the last decade pulling itself in two. The vast amount of capital resulted in the expansion of early investing while also keeping companies private for much longer. It’s easy to find people talking at cross purposes because they exist at opposite ends of

.benahorowitz.eth at SXSW (2014): "If you’re going to be an entrepreneur, get in your mind there’s no quitting." Expertise isn’t inherited. It’s earned by iteratively compounding knowledge until you see what nobody else can. That’s why you don't quit.

Everything I learned about strategy in building HubSpot: Watch the competition, but never follow it: I got this line from Arnoldo Hax, my strategy professor at Sloan, and repeated it so many times that it is ingrained in HubSpot’s DNA. It is relatively obvious at this point that

My biggest takeaways from Stewart Butterfield: 1. Product design is about creating understanding, not removing friction. Teams obsess over reducing friction and removing steps, but 70% to 80% of product design challenges are actually about helping people *understand* what your product does