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Highest return in 2020? People
It’s been an incredibly tough year across – the pandemic, the election, and, amongst it all, building a company focused on GovTech. When nothing is easy, and everyday feels like a lesson in survival, it can be tough to find the motivation to face the next challenge. As I look at this year, and start […]
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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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Metrics in; Product discipline out
In the Spring of 2019, we became obsessed with our metrics. Specifically, the metrics that focused on how large of an impact we wanted to have in the lives of our customers as opposed to the metric of how successfully we were solving the key problems in our customer’s lives. During this period, we lost […]
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Why it was worth fighting for
It’s really easy for me to come out of the last 3 or 4 months with nothing but negative views on what happened, and why it ended up where it did. But the reality is that I was in the situation that I was because I strongly believed in something that – honestly – would […]
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A letter to my future self to remember why I left Odeko
At the beginning of 2019, I founded and built an amazing startup. At the end of 2019, I left. Over the next few days, I’m going to write about what I think happened in 2019 that meant that I went from the happiest I’ve ever been in a role to depressed, burnt out, and running […]
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The new onvural.net is live!
I’ve done it! The new http://onvural.net is live, and you can find the code for it here: https://github.com/meliho/onvural-website. It’s an incredibly simple site, and the build process involves locally building, and then FTP-ing the code up to my server. But it was really fun to build. The design and code are based on the tutorial […]
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Building a new onvural.net
It’s time for a new project. On onvural.net, I’m going to build a timeline of all of our photos. It will give us a chance to put them all together into one place, and I’ll have fun building the tech stack underneath it. My mom has in a closet at the family house 30 albums […]
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And so it comes to a close…
10 years ago I graduated from Grad School. I packed up my life, and headed West to San Francisco. Most kids dream about world cups or flying to the moon, but I wanted to conquer Silicon Valley. It was the beginning of a new chapter in life And what a chapter! There’s no way 10 […]
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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 […]