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Business & Strategy Archives

How I use OKRs October 13, 2023
A description of how I use OKRs to guide a team, written so I can send to future teams.

Strategy Means Saying No October 27, 2020
An oft-overlooked aspect of strategy is to define what you are not doing. There are lots of adjacent problems you can attack. Strategy means defining which ones you will ignore.

Understanding vision, strategy, and execution October 24, 2020
Vision is what you’re trying to do. Strategy is broad strokes on how you’ll get there. Execution is the tasks you complete to complete the strategy.

Developer Relations as Developer Success October 19, 2020
Outreach, marketing, and developer evangelism are a part of Developer Relations. But the companies that are most successful with developers spend most of their time on something else.

How the Sales organization in a large company slows innovation November 16, 2018
If you have a new innovative product inside a large established company, it can be much harder to reach product market fit than it would be for the same product in a startup.