Review: The Innovation Stack
For the past couple of years, I've been narcassistically keeping an eye out for a tell-all book about Square. Of the cohort of startups founded in the late 2000s to early 2010s, we...
Startups
What Got You Here Won't Get You There
As it usually happens, what my friend @jackdanger tweets out quickly turns into food for thought, and eventually blog fodder: I’ve noticed that as companies get bigger, small-company managerial norms → big-company exec exceptionalism. Sometimes...
Review: Uncanny Valley
I first figured that Uncanny Valley , from its back-of-the-book description, is just another tech industry exposé. As a 20-year resident of this area, I'm not exactly its intended audience, and so the shock...
The Engineering Leaders Hired by Startups
It started with a tweet: Agreed, particularly in looking for an external hire, it’s to compliment a missing piece within the current team and more often than not it’s the management piece. — Allen...
Shadow Systems
There’s the system , and then the system behind the system. I’ve written in the past about how the job of increasingly senior management is really about frameworks and mental models, that a big...
Review: Secrets of Sand Hill Road
For all the founders and startups and unicorns in Silicon Valley—not to mention the leaky data sieve that is the internet—there's remarkably little public, easily accessible information on how venture capital...