CEOs at high-tech businesses work hard to keep as much growth going for as long as possible. Investors — both public and private — tend to value growth over everything…
Growth and the pursuit of growth in a startup is extremely seductive. However, unless that growth is a by-product of user engagement, you can expect that the growth will cost…
Why a ninja? Ninjas have purpose. They are focused and ready to act in alignment with said purpose. Ninjas strike with precision. They abhor the hack and slash approach and…
These days, everyone seems to have forgotten the importance of building something that actual people want and will use. Now it’s scale up, uberize, pivot and re-pivot… and if all…
In month n, you have U_0 x (1 + monthly growth)^n users. Does that look familiar? Be honest. That’s modeling hockey-stick growth by defining exponential, hockey-stick growth. Then the game…