Recommended. Podcast here; transcript here; extracts below. How should a market be defined?It’s worth remembering that people buy products and services to get a “job”… Read More »Recommendation: Steve Blank, Anthony Ulwick and Ted Thyer on using Jobs-To-Be-Done to Define Markets
Ezra Klein: How should I feel about the idea these [artificial intelligences] will be privately owned, if they’re going to be this powerful? Sam Altman:… Read More »Sam Altman on Public Sector AI, ownership and incentives
Elon Musk isn’t (just) building cars at Tesla. He started by building a car, but the end was never the car: the end was a… Read More »The machine that makes the machine; or, matryoshkas of change
Bad old business* says, “How can I maximise profit? I will use up the resources available to get as much as I can.” Naive charity… Read More »Generous, Reasonable, Sustainable; or, Goldilocks Pricing
Too often the market pushes creators to give away their work, and too often we come to believe that giving it away – removing money… Read More »Seth Godin: Generous doesn’t mean free
I think of the business model as the enabling “wrapper” around the “technical” solution you make happen. If you’re a plumber, it’s all the business… Read More »Resource: Seth Godin on Business Models
“What am I hoping to get?” Once we’ve admitted to ourselves that we’re doing our work (at least partly) for ourselves, we can think more… Read More »The switch (2)
More from Marc Andreessen’s brilliant interview on The Moment with Brian Koppelman. This time: how breaking into the network in order to get funding isn’t… Read More »Marc Andreessen: the test
Tobi Lütke (@tobi) is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Shopify. In 2004, Tobi began building software to launch an online snowboard store called Snowdevil. It… Read More »Byproduct
Ideas are easy. Ideas are free, they’re everywhere. The hard thing is turning ideas into value propositions that customers want, and business models that can… Read More »Strategy: from ideas to value propositions to business models