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Longer Articles Most Popular All Posts About Me Subscribe by Email Articles The Elephant in the room: The myth of exponential hypergrowth The practical application of Rocks, Pebbles, Sand” Fixing the ROI rubric Binstack: Making a maximal, multi-dimensional decision The Talk” vs Walk” framework The Iterative-Hypothesis customer development method Extreme questions to generate better ideas The Impossible Great Product Manager” Finding Fulfillment Blog More posts and long-form are over here January 8, 2023 • Jason • Uncategorized In 2022 I started writing some longer articles as well as new blog posts. Because I wanted a new format, with more fine-tuning, special control over image processing, and a print-specific PDF, I created a new website: https://longform.asmartbear.com/ Please join me there! Continue reading → Who’s lying? February 26, 2022 • Jason • Uncategorized Pilots use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because they understand that in a dashboard full of information, something is always lying to you. The lesson is useful for data and metrics at our companies. Continue reading → What’s The Important Thing, that is powerful enough to override all your deficiencies? November 4, 2019 • Jason • Uncategorized Do you feel the crushing weight of disadvantages facing every new company? No brand, no features, no customers, no money, no distribution, no search engine rankings, no tuned advertising, no incredible executive team, no NPS, no strategy. How do the successful startups rise above all that? Do they solve all those problems at once, or… Continue reading → Capturing Luck with or” instead of and” October 8, 2019 • Jason • Essays There’s always a lot of luck in startups, but there’s ways to better capture upside, and better mitigate downside. Continue reading → Kung Fu February 26, 2019 • Jason • How-To A summary of nearly everything I think about building companies. Continue reading → Next Page © 2007 – 2023 Jason Cohen. All rights reserved. A digital experience hosted by WP...