A Plodding Mediocrity
What a decade of building a venture-backed company really taught me. In 2011, I heard a public-radio underwriting spot that changed my life. WNYC’s Radiolab ran the “Undercurrent, a digital strategy firm in lower Manhattan thinking about human–refrigerator interaction, 3D printing, and cat memes.” I cold-emailed them: need an IoT expert? Months later I was [ ] The post Ten years on and the score…
Up ahead s the finish,Fresher footfalls in the pastAnd while the end s no ribbonI hope your hand s in mineAs I stumble down the hill No podium awaitsTo stand above the restBut if I made it anywayThe stillness was better enjoyedwhile along the road The post Along the Road appeared first on Jordan Husney .
Here are 5 Youtube creators and channels I believe deserve more attention in 2022: #1 Country Life Vlog I ve often fantasized about owning a chunk of land, raising my own food, and being closer to nature. I never would have guessed I would want to do that in Azerbaijan. Country Life Vlog is cast in [ ] The post 5 YouTube Channels to Watch in 2022 appeared first on Jordan Husney .
Thoughts on scaling businesses The post Small Before Big appeared first on Jordan Husney .
A founder I respect sent me their investor presentation. They re smart and their product is great. It serves a big market. At the end of the their deck, they ask for $2.0M in venture financing. I don t think it ll work. I asked permission to give feedback and wrote back the following. It s advice I ve found [ ] The post First Round, Small Round appeared first on Jordan Husney .
This is the article I wish I could have read when setting out to start my company, Parabol. Raising capital is a ruthlessly difficult process and one a venture-class founder must master to survive: Entrepreneurs are alone in a canoe barreling down a river with nothing but potting soil, a pine cone, and a blade [ ] The post A Seed Raise by the Numbers appeared first on Jordan Husney .
A practical guide to using narrative and storyboards to design products experiences, and organize teams to deliver them A Snow White Story Over the 2011 holiday season, Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky was looking for a way to concisely capture the customer experience. He had just finished a biography on Walt Disney and how the Disney [ ] The post The Narrative-Driven Organization appeared first on…
In biology there are generally two strategies for creating offspring, “r-selection” and “K-selection”. r-selection involves having as many kids as possible hoping some survive (think: baby turtles all hatching at once and scrambling to the sea). The K-selection strategy has very few offspring, but invests heavily in them (think: humans). I am the latter kind [ ] The post Why I Invested in Civic…
Last year, I shared my top 5 YouTube channels to watch in 2018. With the birth of our first child there were fewer moments to indulge in full-length episodes of our favorite shows on Netflix but plenty of nap times to sneak in a stream or two from YouTube. Here are creators I think deserve [ ] The post 5 YouTube Channels to Watch in 2019 appeared first on Jordan Husney .
(source) By 2020, it’s possible that 50% of worldwide knowledge workers will work remotely. As internet speeds increase and there are more powerful tools for collaboration, it’s easier for people to gain control over where they live, on what schedule they work, and who they work with. This is a massive societal shift, and one [ ] The post Distributed Organizations are Inherently Responsive…