The most successful free online services for consumers share three traits. They are frictionless to join, they are inherently viral, and people want to use them every day. Frictionless Being frictionless to join means no one has to pay a
Be Justin Bieber
Imagine if your coworkers could be as ecstatic about their work as Justin Bieber’s tween fans are about him… wouldn’t that be scary/awesome? There’s something about Justin Bieber that makes tween girls go nuts. They swoon over him privately and
Respect is Fuel
I can’t get much done by myself. Accounting, coding, sales, legal, design… I depend on other people to make these things happen, so my success depends directly on their enthusiasm to help. And since I’m not the richest, smartest, most
My Formula For Building Fast
I just built another project from concept to launch within one week, and I’m starting to hit on a repeatable formula for the non-technical CEO to use. In this post I’ll describe the project, and then share a dialog I
My Favorite Tools
As the non-technical CEO of a tech company, it’s vital that I work with tools that meet my developers half way. I can manage better when I know what my team is working on, how complex their tasks are, and
Be As Public As Possible
Shivani Siroya, CEO of InVenture.org, is a true marketing maven. InVenture enables people anywhere in the world to invest in micro businesses anywhere else in the world. From her early videos explaining the product, to her latest video documentary by