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I've started and run five companies. I've had nothing but great experiences with Corp Dev and nothing but horrible experiences with VCs. Corp Dev wants to give you cash (usually!) …

No, poor product management from neglected product managers did that. You might not be very excited to design icons as your primary job, either, if you thought your job was to mana…

The most fundamental problem at Google, of which bad UX/UI is one symptom, is that product management has no real power there. Engineering has all the power there, and basically do…

Developers who have great insurance coverage at their current job and require it at their next job aren't candidates for startups like mine. We don't have health insurance for empl…

I take a completely different approach to hiring, and I've gotten fantastic results. Instead of throwing tricky algorithm questions at a candidates, I scour their detailed employme…

I wrote a book advising parents how to give kids a life of independent neighborhood play. Check out Playborhood - http://playborhood.com In a nutshell, I contend that this is a soc…