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Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value
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Ivan Landabaso on Substack
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The "80/20 principle" for founders
Traction: 80% distribution, 20% product
Growth: 80% retention, 20% acquisition
Revenue: 80% existing customers, 20% new leads
Pricing experiments: 80% positioning tweaks, 20% actual price changes
Brand building: 80% customer experience, 20% logo design
Sales: 80% listening, 20% pitching
Community building: 80% empowering... See more
Traction: 80% distribution, 20% product
Growth: 80% retention, 20% acquisition
Revenue: 80% existing customers, 20% new leads
Pricing experiments: 80% positioning tweaks, 20% actual price changes
Brand building: 80% customer experience, 20% logo design
Sales: 80% listening, 20% pitching
Community building: 80% empowering... See more
GREG ISENBERG • Tweet
Dean Becker, the CEO of Adaptiv Learning Systems, has been researching and developing
Paul Jarvis • Company Of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
My definition of “Life’s Work:”
“A lifelong quest to build something for others that expresses who you are”
3 parts to the definition, all important…
“A LIFELONG QUEST” reflects the reality that work isn’t about a series of accomplishments, which ultimately ring ... See more
Patrick OShaughnessyx.com
Kevin Kelly has this great idea that you need your own distinct definition of success. For me, success would be cultivating a very specific reputation. I'd like my reputation to be "talk to that guy and you'll leave energized, thinking about something new. Good things will happen, and it'll generally cost you nothing."
Patrick OShaughnessy • Tweet
The basic idea of a portfolio life is that instead of thinking of your work as a monolithic activity, what if you chose to see it as the complex group of interests, passions, and activities it is? And what if instead of identifying with a job description, you began to see the whole mass of things you do as one portfolio of activity?