Ilya Rekhter: The road to 1,000 miners was filled with referrals
The transition from zero to one is daunting. What if the product doesn’t work as expected or, worse, what if no one wants what I’ve built?
The transition from zero to one is daunting. What if the product doesn’t work as expected or, worse, what if no one wants what I’ve built?
Here is my kind of silly, kind of fun, but oh-so-true similarities of how raising our baby is like building my company.
The findings illustrate the challenges faced by organizations as they assess office-space needs.
In eight years’ time, it’s predicted, the smartest thing on the planet will be a machine—something not human-made at all, but an autonomous form that has developed itself.
Some businesses immediately grasp how to leverage our services effectively, while others struggle to harness the power of marketing.
Hoosiers might be familiar with the term “pivot” from basketball, where you keep one foot in place (the plant foot) and move the other foot around to shift direction or get leverage.
Imagine the workplace today. How much grace and patience do we give people to succeed?
Traditionally, customer service has been viewed as a cost center instead of a revenue driver, and it’s hard for companies to allocate funds to activities that aren’t moving the needle.
At DORIS, our research methodology is based in grounded theory, a fancy term referring to allowing findings to surface, rather than looking for specific answers.
Vulnerability isn’t telling everyone everything.
Birthdays serve as great opportunities for reflection, allowing us to look back at the events from the past year.
The reality is that the entrepreneurial journey is not even a process of solo creation but rather is one of co-creation.
Gen Z workers, more than the millennial demographic cohort preceding them, seem to be particularly head-scratching for older workers—earning a reputation for their unwillingness to work and their high, “woke” demands.
I prefer the phrase “work-life congruence” because it puts “life” and “work” on the same team instead of pitting them against each other.
As entrepreneurs, we tend to focus on the big picture.
The reason AI can be so powerful in this process is the immediacy of the feedback. Behavior change and positive habit formation occur when one’s pattern is disrupted, and the feedback received is immediate.
It took us five years to figure out what business we were in, eight more to grow fast and almost crash into oblivion, and five more to rebuild the foundation of the business for sustainable, profitable growth.
One second I might be contemplating my laundry pile and the next taking a deep dive into why sales are down this quarter.
What many people don’t realize is that the Titanic was the White Star Line’s solution to a hyper-competitive market—its own form of disruption.
Transparency in the workplace can be a double-edge sword that cuts both ways.