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Some basic assumptions:
We don’t know how users will perceive the features we deliver. (We have suspicions, opinions, but users/buyers/investors continually surprise us.)
We don’t know how users will talk about features in their communities.
We don’t know how much it will cost to implement features. (Today’s answer is “less” but we still don’t know how muc…<...
As I mentioned in:
the idea of long volatility investing has finally begun coming together for me, along with its connection to software development. I’m at that stage (for me) where the fog has started to lift but I’m not sure what’s going to emerge from the mist.
In ShortThe idea is, best as I can summarize it so far, that there are stock trading strat…
I bought my first stocks at 7. I saw an episode of Leave it to Beaver where they talked about stocks. I got $50 for Christmas (like $500 today!). I wanted to try it.
My investment thesis was simple—the names of the stocks needed to contain the names of the 50 states. I got as far as Oregon Freeze-Dried Foods & Washington Natural Gas before I ran out of money.
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I was in a conversation today where folks rolling out a new product were apologetic that they couldn’t (yet) serve all the users who wanted to use the product. I took a moment to remind the team that from a 3X: Explore/Expand/Extract perspective, limiting usage is an outstandingly positive sign.
When folks say negative things to you, it can feel bad. Put…
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