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Free ebook collecting academic research on the psychology of entrepreneurship in response to chronic adversity (e.g., poverty, refugee status) by Notre Dame Prof. Dean Shepherd and co-authors nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

Insightful analysis of how tokens can be used to attract a marketplace's "hard to get" side

On behalf of our MS/MBAs, big thanks to Rudina Seseri and Glasswing Ventures for bringing together this group to share wisdom about early-stage startup hiring

Educators take note

Proud of my software engineer son John Eisenmann who just unveiled WheatSystem, an 8-bit, device agnostic OS with multitasking, memory permissioning, etc. -- a side project he's been working on for a couple of years hackaday.com/2022/10/14/whe…

Congrats to Vaxess Technologies co-founder/CEO Michael A. Schrader and his team!

Thanks, Jennifer Lum! And, next to me, HBS Professor Shai Bernstein!

In his new newsletter, Ethan Mollick is synthesizing academic research on important topics in powerful ways. Here, he unpacks research on failure oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/when-the-cac…

Sharp insights about AI's evolution from Ethan Mollick oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/ai-has-a-str…

New essay on founder intuition and how that compares to team expertise as you hire new people, and how it compares to customer knowledge. Knowing the right times to lean on founder intuition vs. deferring to team expertise is critical to making the right decisions at a startup.

Of the scores of post-mortems by failed founders I've read, this one by Lillian Cartwright is the most thoughtful (HT @austinfish)

Intriguing post from Elizabeth Yin 💛 about whether the threat of OpenAI cloning plug-in partners' offerings will create an opportunity for rival platforms

Thanks, Doug Levin!

Powerful advice:

Sharp insights here about reasons for product failure

Here's the first of several posts on product management that I co-authored with @GeneralCatalyst's @DeepNishar. This one explores when a startup should hire their first product leader, and who they should hire deepnishar.com/article/hiring…

In our third post on product leadership, @DeepNishar and I explore growth teams: how to organize them, and how they relate to the product function. deepnishar.com/article/managi…

Thanks, Halle Tecco MBA, MPH! Your post provides exactly the answers and advice about startup advisory roles that a faculty colleague just asked me for.

Looking forward to interviewing Chris Dixon this morning. We'll discuss his brilliant new book on blockchain networks, Read Write Own.

Great account of the different ways ChatGPT can be helpful in the early stages of launching a new venture from serial deep tech founder Natalya Bailey natalyabailey.substack.com/p/how-im-using…