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Oct 4, 2021

How My Own Climate Journey Led Me to Join My Climate Journey

Like many of you, My Climate Journey was one of the first resources I discovered when I decided it was time for me to learn more about climate change. For me, it was in early 2020, before the pandemic had taken full force in the US. I reached out to…

Climate Change

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How My Own Climate Journey Led Me to Join My Climate Journey
How My Own Climate Journey Led Me to Join My Climate Journey
Climate Change

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Apr 30, 2021

Overwhelmed With Building Your Business? Stop Planning and Start Prioritizing.

The following is adapted from the chapter on product prioritization (Chapter 3: Assumptions & Hypotheses) that I wrote in Levers: The Framework for Building Repeatability Into Your Business There may be more books and blog posts on product planning than there are grains of sand on the beaches of Hawaii…

Product Management

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Overwhelmed With Building Your Business? Stop Planning and Start Prioritizing.
Overwhelmed With Building Your Business? Stop Planning and Start Prioritizing.
Product Management

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·Mar 8, 2017

Why Most Product Roadmaps are a Train-wreck (and how to fix this)

It is 2017. We have Agile. We have Lean Startup. We have a million (give or take) product management blog posts about how to properly do A/B testing and experimentation. We have incredible off the shelf testing software like Mixpanel, Optimizely, and (nameyourfavoritehere). …

Product Management

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Why Most Product Roadmaps are a Train-wreck (and how to fix this)
Why Most Product Roadmaps are a Train-wreck (and how to fix this)
Product Management

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Oct 24, 2016

Announcing Techstars Kansas City

We’re excited to announce that we’re deepening our commitment to the rapidly emerging startup ecosystem in Kansas City with the launch of Techstars Kansas City. Applications will open in January 2017. We will select 10 startups and the program will begin in July 2017. Lesa Mitchell will be the Managing…

Startup

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Announcing Techstars Kansas City
Announcing Techstars Kansas City
Startup

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Oct 6, 2016

7 reasons I’m stoked for Techstars Music

Why now is actually a good time to be a music startup Yesterday we announced our latest Techstars offering for startups, Techstars Music. Music has been a notoriously challenging category for startups, but I’m beyond stoked. Here’s why: Music drives culture. For many people, musical taste defines style and is…

Startup

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7 reasons I’m stoked for Techstars Music
7 reasons I’m stoked for Techstars Music
Startup

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Apr 15, 2016

Thoughts on Bots

What should we expect from a bot ecosystem? — Thoughts on bots. Hot hot hot. Bots have thoughts on lots and lots. No dots. Just bots. Hot / not? Great Scott! If you talk like Dr Seuss to a bot, can it learn to respond in rhyme? We shall see. Yippee! The internet is abuzz this week on the…

Messaging

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Thoughts on Bots
Thoughts on Bots
Messaging

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Mar 7, 2016

Disruption and the Next Twenty-Two

1994. Friends and ER debut. Kurt Cobain departs. Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding. The OJ chase. Forrest Gump. Oh, and the consumer internet as we know it is born. Netscape, Yahoo!, and Amazon all appear. And a complete restructuring of power in the areas of Communications, Content, and Commerce begins. …

Technology

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Disruption and the Next Twenty-Two
Disruption and the Next Twenty-Two
Technology

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Feb 29, 2016

Voice: The Next UI Layer

Lately, I’ve been obsessed with the power of voice. Not voice as in self-expression (though important!), and not voice as in voice calls or — worse! — voicemail, but rather voice as the next major UI layer for software in the living room and beyond. As voice recognition and, more…

Virtual Reality

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Voice: The Next UI Layer
Voice: The Next UI Layer
Virtual Reality

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