After working as founder and full-stack engineer on growth teams in Silicon Valley, I fell in love with paying it forward. Now I work with executive teams to do three main things, depending on the stage of the product or idea:
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Hey Jordan, Meet Jon, he's a technical founder and growth advisor. He works with exec teams to do three main things: validate and learn from customer research, design roadmaps to find product market fit, or plan actionable growth experiments to accelerate growth. I’ll let him fill you in on what his process looks like, but here's a short write-up. I think you’ll enjoy the conversation, as well. Jon, meet Jordan (here’s their twitter, or site, etc). They’re looking to (goal or problem statement here)
Seed and Series A founders say growth is a top priority, but hiring the wrong people is one of the most common and costly mistakes. We see this solved with part-time CFOs, HR, and legal, who avoid the step-function increase in cost, time, and risk of full-time hires. It’s time we bring that concept to marketing, which I’m doing as a Part-Time CMO.
Twilio interviewed engineers about projects they’ve built with Twilio, and the theme for their 2019 Keynote, which was “Why I Build”. It was exciting to share the story of Emissary, the last company I co-founded: a medical tourism marketplace so polished, you’d trust your own parents on it.
Some of the writers I respect the most have been reflecting on their years. I don’t write often, but when I do, it’s worth it. Writing helps me clear my head, focus, and uncover new thoughts I hadn’t articulated even to myself. Here goes…
Three years ago, I heard the story of my friend’s mother, who thought she had great U.S. health insurance. To get the arthritis treatment she needed, she was still forced to fly her whole family to India for a month. She saved ~$40,000, and reported better care than her U.S hospital. But it wasn’t easy…
Danielle unleashed a Category-5 tweetstorm on fundraising today, but twitter isn’t threading replies well. Compiled this to make the thread easier to follow...
My intern host at Google told me once “whatever tools you use… master them.” In that spirit, I went looking for the ideal programming typing instructor. This is subjective, obviously, but...
Google Chrome has trained my brain that Ctrl+T, and ⌘+⌥+[arrows] will move me to the next and previous tabs. Here’s how to make vim work the same way. In .vimrc…