Michael Blanding wrote an article for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge titled How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers (13 July 2016). The article is about Harvard Business School’s Thales Teixeira’s research about how platform companies attract their first customers.
Continue reading “Acquiring the First Thousand Customers”Adam Grant on shooting the messenger
Adam Grant tweeted about the difference between weak, strong, and great leaders.
Continue reading “Adam Grant on shooting the messenger”Ritson’s 10 traits of a successful marketer
Matthew Valentine wrote an article for MarketingWeek titled Ritson on the 10 traits of a successful marketer.
Continue reading “Ritson’s 10 traits of a successful marketer”Matt Lerner says Personas are worthless for marketing
Matt Lerner posted a thread on Twitter about personas. “At PayPal, I once wasted $1M on a marketing segmentation to build personas. Here’s what we actually learned, plus what I now do instead.”
Continue reading “Matt Lerner says Personas are worthless for marketing”Americans today spend 92 percent of their time indoors, and their physical and mental health are suffering
Michael Easter wrote an article for Men’s Health titled The ’20-5-3′ Rule Prescribes How Much Time to Spend Outside.
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Charlotte Rogers wrote an article for MarketingWeek titled Rory Sutherland: Marketers should see capitalism as a ‘discovery mechanism’
Continue reading “Marketing is an opportunity maximization game, not an efficiency optimization game”Kurtosis as a measure of risk
I was looking at the definition of kurtosis on the Corporate Finance Institute website.
“Kurtosis identifies whether the tails of a given distribution contain extreme values.”
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Thomas J. Pence wrote a blog post titled Long Weekends and Leadership.
Continue reading “Leadership and the Taoist concept of de”Goodhart’s Law Rules the Modern World
Peter Coy wrote an article for Bloomberg BusinessWeek titled Goodhart’s Law Rules the Modern World. Here Are Nine Examples.
Continue reading “Goodhart’s Law Rules the Modern World”I Bond – inflation-protected U.S. savings bond
Jason Zweig wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal titled The Safe, High-Return Trade Hiding in Plain Sight.
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