Hi everyone! Sorry for the radio silence over the past month: I’ve been very busy with two new projects that I’m excited to share: 1. As of last month, I’ve officially started working with Sharethebus, an awesome transportation startup based here in Montreal that’s solving the collective action problem surrounding transportation to and from events. I’ll put up a longer and more detailed post sometime soon, outlining what makes this company great and why I decided to join. For now we’re in full-on work mode heading into the summer festival season,… Read more 2 Big Updates →
Happy St Patrick’s Day, everyone. Today, we’re going to talk about proof, and two different kinds of proof that startups tend to face yet not fully appreciate. I’ll be discussing two types of startup models – which I’ll call Type 1 Behaviour and Type 2 Behaviour models – and why they bear distinct burdens of proof that are quite different from one another. A Type 1 behaviour model centers on consumer behaviour that already exists. Companies following this model build a product that makes this behaviour easier, better, cheaper, faster,… Read more Type 1 versus Type 2 Proof →
In honor of the Apple Watch release today, I’d like to talk about something Apple seems to consistently get away with, and why they’re not lucky – they’re good. One… Read more How Apple Escapes Disruption →
We often observe things in life that are normally distributed. The familiar Bell Curve can be seen in the distributions of people’s heights, weights, and blood pressure, their marks on… Read more Startups are not normally distributed →
If you were anywhere near the Internet yesterday evening, you probably know what this is referring to: If somehow you missed out on ‘the singularity’, which broke Buzzfeed’s all-time traffic… Read more IT’S WHITE AND GOLD NO IT’S BLUE AND BLACK →
Let’s start this post with some wisdom from Chris Dixon: “The evolution of the internet is an extremely complex topic. Sometimes it is helpful to find broad patterns that make it… Read more Push, Pull, Purchasing and Pinterest →
Over the past few weeks, as I’ve been teaching myself R (an incredibly powerful tool that I highly recommend for anyone interested in any kind of numerical analysis or data… Read more Idle hockey observations: Age/Zone Start% team signatures →
I’d like to talk about something very important today: the monumental shift that I believe will be the defining feature of the 2020s and beyond. That shift is the rise of the access economy. What is the access economy? It’s a term I use to describe a phenomenon we’ve all experienced and that I believe will help define the future, yet is surprisingly un-articulated today. The access economy is what emerges when access to (x) becomes cheap, satisfactory, convenient and reliable enough that the premium on ownership of (x) disappears.… Read more The rise of the access economy →
