Category: Building a business
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Winning startups develop their process muscles from the beginning
Startup mythology tells us to avoid process at all cost. It’s bureaucratic. It’s a big company control mechanism. It stops the only advantage that startups have – speed. The mythology is wrong. Every business needs to build 3 simple processes into their DNA from the very beginning: Define the next set of milestones for the […]
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PM Hygiene: Push (everyone’s) bias out of your product regularly
Stop me fellow Product Manager if you’ve never heard some version of this line – Well, I’d never do {BEHAVIOR}, and so our customers would never do {BEHAVIOR}, and therefore this is the wrong decision Expectancy Bias is one of the key biases that Product Managers must fight in themselves, and break down in any […]
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What’s old is new again – CES Edition
I think I finally understand the moral of the story of Rip Van Winkle. Except instead of finding the answer in a beautiful corner of upstate New York, my revelation came in the Las Vegas Convention Center. You see, had you attended CES about 10 years ago, and then found yourself a corner of the […]
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I build rocket ships
I’ve decided to refresh how people see me across various networks. One of those is LinkedIn where my summary is the one I wrote as a college student… which is now almost 10 years old. Here’s a cross-posting of the new, updated summary. I’ll post the old one tomorrow for posterity sake. I build rocket […]
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Moving faster than the documentation
I’ve decided to hop back into the game, and build a new app. I’m not announcing what it is yet because it’s no where near ready, but I really like the idea. I’ve also decided to be really trendy, and use the latest in software development tools. This kills many birds with one stone: Challenge […]
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Focusing on appreciation
We’re an extremely email happy culture at TokBox. We have automated emails, out of office emails, working from home emails, and then just a bunch of emails about getting things done. As I’ve been drowning in email lately, I started to notice a pattern that I really don’t like. In an effort to move through […]
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Learning to let go
I always tell people that I have 3 babies: Amelia Luka OpenTok And all three have had an amazing year. They’ve gone from needing epic hand holding to having a village around them that makes them better than I could alone. At work, the hardest part has been learning to trust that others can love […]
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6 years later
I started at TokBox six years ago today. It’s been an amazing journey to say the least. I interviewed with 20 companies my 5th year of college. I got a ton of first round interviews because I’d worked my ass off to build a killer internship resume. I just couldn’t close the door though on […]
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Team bonding
This blog post is 6 days late. It all started when I got sick, fell behind, and I’ve been playing catch up ever since. Some of these catch up blog posts are relevant to the day. Others are just random musings. Yesterday we went to wine country as a product team, and it was fantastic! […]
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It’s a scream out loud kind of day
Getting out of email, and being able to solve real problems is hard. Fighting technology as basic as wireless router vs. cooling system is frustrating. Feeling like no matter what you’re 2 days behind is just depressing. So tonight I just hit the reset button. Micky and I let the kids stay up late. We […]