Chris Iona

OPERATIONAL BLINDNESS happens when you lose sight of Strategic Goals, due to a heavy focus on Operational Activities

Chris Iona

startup strategy

futurepass.com

Future Pass

Developing the next generation of products and services for a cloud heavy, and hyper–connected world.

Future Pass Pty Ltd

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startuplessonslearned.com

The engineering manager's lament

This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced. He has a good team, and they've shipped a working product to many customers. He's working harder than ever, and so is his team. Yet, they feel like they are falling further and further behind with every release.

There are two kinds of bugs:

• One kind are what I call defects — situations where the software doesn’t behave in a predictable way.
  
  
• The second kind of bugs are the type your traditional QA tester will find — situations where the software doesn’t do what the customer expects.

software engineering startups

Perfect doesn’t exist. Make the least wrong decision today, and adapt tomorrow.

Chris Iona

chris iona quotes startups

open.buffer.com

These Are Buffer's Top 10 Lessons from Growing to $10 Million ARR - Open

Co-founder Leo Widrich shares his top 10 learnings from growing the startup, Buffer, to $10 annual recurring revenue.

1. Experiment with a weekly mastermind with your co-founder
   
2. Avoid being distracted by data too early on
   
3. Ask these five questions to learn better from customers
   
4. Keep your data in house for more flexibility
   
5. The Bullseye Exercise: One channel to double down on
   
6. Seek conflicting advice from at least two mentors on your biggest decisions
   
7. Experiment with changing your prices often as you add value
   
8. Use the lean startup methodology for every feature you build, especially post-launch
   
9. When you get an offer to sell, list the experiences of personal growth you might miss
   
10. Start getting better at your strengths and stop working on your weaknesses
    

–– Leo Widrich

startups buffer advice

christophjanz.blogspot.com.au

What does it take to raise capital, in SaaS, in 2016?

startups raise capital saas

metalhearted

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hbr.org

9 Employee Engagement Archetypes

You can't engage employees if you don't know what motivates them.

leadership & managing people

hbr.org

Trustworthy Signals

David DeSteno, professor of psychology at Northeastern University, explains the research behind his article, "Who Can You Trust?"

managing yourself

hbr.org

Leaders Need Three Kinds of Focus

Daniel Goleman, author of "The Focused Leader," explains why leaders need to cultivate a triad of awareness — an inward focus, a focus on others, and an outward focus.

managing yourself

hbr.org

Debunking Three Entrepreneurship Myths

Daniel Isenberg, author of Worthless, Impossible, and Stupid, shatters the stereotypes about who the typical entrepreneur really is.

entrepreneurship

hbr.org

Brainswarming: Because Brainstorming Doesn't Work

Dr. Tony McCaffrey outlines a new way to generate ideas.

innovation

hbr.org

The Explainer: Design Thinking

Popularized by David M. Kelley and Tim Brown of IDEO and Roger Martin of the Rotman School, design thinking has three major stages.

https://hbr.org/2015/09/design-for-action?referral=00060

innovation

inc.com

Product Life Cycle

The theory of a product life cycle was first introduced in the 1950s to explain the expected life cycle of a typical product from design to obsolescence, a period divided into the phases of product introduction, product growth, maturity, and decline.

product lifecycle

smartinsights.com

How to use the McKinsey 7S model in marketing

An example of reviewing your marketing capabilities using the Mckinsey 7S framework The McKinsey 7S model is a useful framework for reviewing an organisati. Marketing topic(s):Marketing models. Advice by Annmarie Hanlon.