Startups Unplugged

Three recent articles on Poets & Quants caught my eye: – ‘AI IS DEVALUING THE MBA’: Stanford Students Speak Out On Curriculum Lag & Risk To The B-School’s Brand. – ‘WE EXPECTED MORE’: Stanford GSB Students Call For Higher Teaching Standards. – ‘WE’RE NOT…

If you’ve seen any sports news recently, you probably heard about the new “torpedo bats” the Yankees are using and how well they seem to be working.

For years I’ve been making founders do 30 days of rejection, where they purposely go out and try to get rejected at least once a day.

Attention flows to hot markets.

For the last 2 years I’ve made gen AI mandatory in the classroom, but this semester there were so many useful AI tools and other techniques that I brought them in more heavily.

If you’ve been following me here, you know that I spent the last couple years workshopping, speaking, and writing about the impact timing has on the success of a product.

They say timing is everything in business.

10 years ago today, NYU finance professor Aswath Damodaran, well-known for his work on corporate valuations, posted an article on Uber.

(For a full walkthrough of unit economics, read the book Growth Units.)

If you’re finding this post now, I actually wrote a book about all this… It’s called Why Now: How Good Timing Makes Great Products.