Chris Iona

Founder of Future Pass Previously Hipages, Bigcommerce, Internode

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

Chris Iona

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

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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.

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

Chris Iona

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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.

Experiment with a weekly mastermind with your co-founder

Avoid being distracted by data too early on

Ask these five questions to learn better from customers

Keep your data in house for more flexibility

The Bullseye Exercise: One channel to double down on

Seek conflicting advice from at least two mentors on your biggest decisions

Experiment with changing your prices often as you add value

Use the lean startup methodology for every feature you build, especially post-launch

When you get an offer to sell, list the experiences of personal growth you might miss

Start getting better at your strengths and stop working on your weaknesses

–– Leo Widrich

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

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9 Employee Engagement Archetypes

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

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Trustworthy Signals

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

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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.

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Debunking Three Entrepreneurship Myths

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

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Brainswarming: Because Brainstorming Doesn't Work

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

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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

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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.

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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.

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Brian Greene gives a demonstration to explain the historic discovery of gravitational waves.

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Debate of Current Theories in Quantum Mechanics

Brian Greene does a great job moderating the debate of the current theories of quantum physics, and the different approaches to understanding quantum mechanics.