Startup Strategy
Silicon Valley: To Move, or Not to Move
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by Nick Petri
Product
New Gmail UI: When Lean Goes Wrong
Unless you’ve been living in a cave, or still use AOL for email (the technological equivalent of living in a...
by Nick Petri
Startup Strategy
Risk Taking, Blackjack, and the Entrepreneur
At a speaking engagement a few weeks ago, an incredibly insightful blackjack-card-counter-turned-author named Jeff Ma made a claim that caught my...
by Nick Petri
Finance & Operations
Groupon IPO Debacle: How to Lose $10B
Less than six months ago, Groupon was cruising towards a monster initial public offering. Expected by analysts to value the...
by Nick Petri
Startup Strategy
Are You Married to Your Startup’s Business Model? Time to Pivot (Part 2)
In Part 1, I described how a company can—and often must—pivot away from its original business model to achieve success....
by Nick Petri
Startup Strategy
Are You Married to Your Startup’s Business Model? Time to Pivot (Part 1)
Back in my days of investment management, I found it incredibly interesting to psychoanalyze the various people whose job it...
by Nick Petri
Startup Strategy
8 Simple Tips to Teach Yourself to Program
Back in college, I always assumed that computer programming was best left to the few strange people who wanted to...
by Nick Petri
Startup Strategy
The Moneyball Approach to Web Analytics: Companies that Crush the Competition
With Moneyball hitting the theaters this past weekend, I thought I’d get this out there before it becomes just another...
by Nick Petri