Luke Kanies

Giving something away for free can be a fantastic way to achieve adoption, but it raises a permanent conflict.

Don’t get stuck on a solution until you know what problem you’re trying to solve.

We need a new financing model to build new, better companies.

It’s only a good practice if you have the cultural discipline to make it work.

Growth requires risk.

How best to combine “software” with “management”?

How I went from a capricious boss to a powerful partner.

Apply the lessons of product design to your company culture Originally published on NewCo Shift Every founder understands the importance of culture in the long-term success of their company.

They say authenticity is the key to success, and once you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

I am not a technologist.

Anderson’s knife can cut anything, taking a chunk from everything in the land.

Reese’s keyboard produces truth of complexity and beauty, admired from a distance by all.

It should do more so you can do less Originally published at Hacker Noon Apple just released iOS 10.3, which for the first time puts one of their production platforms on their new filesystem, APFS.

Just because it’s working doesn’t make it right Startups are in a constant life and death struggle, where a short succession of failures can destroy them completely, or a sudden string of successes can lead to growth and stardom.

We’re seeing a rapid separation into SaaS companies and suppliers to SaaS companies Software as a service is the most important technology business model innovation my lifetime, and before too long all important technology will be either provided as a ser…

Throughout my 12 years as CEO of Puppet, I made critical decisions that affected nearly everyone involved in the company: What investors should we work with?

Kanban is an incredibly useful productivity tool, initially developed in Japan on automobile manufacturing lines.

Since these are questions I’m often asked, I thought you might be interested in their answers.

Starting companies is a high-risk enterprise, especially so for high-growth, venture-backed companies, which fail more than 90% of the time.

Those who know who I am are likely aware that in September I stepped down as CEO of Puppet, the company I founded, and whose first product I built.

This article was originally published on Medium.

Based on both individual anecdotes of purchased iPads lying fallow around the house and Apple’s recent announcement that iPad sales were essentially flat year over year, some are predicting that the iPad is not the future of computing that has been predic…