Divide & Conquer: Help Your Startup Navigate the Unknown—Part 3
This is the third part of a trilogy of articles addressing the pitch deck to the usable product impedance mismatch all startups face.
Sunday, January 26, 2025
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Divide & Conquer: Help Your Startup Navigate the Unknown—Part 2
This is the second part of a trilogy of articles addressing the pitch deck to the usable product impedance mismatch all startups face.
Saturday, January 19, 2019
Divide & Conquer: Help Your Startup Navigate the Unknown—Part 1
Startups know what they want to do for their customers. What they don’t know is how to turn a pitch deck into an actual usable product.
Friday, January 12, 2024
The Art and Science of Technical Due Diligence
Forrest Gump accidentally receiving Apple shares, thinking it was some fruit company, is a beautiful story. And, although monkeys launching darts have been rumoured to invest as efficiently as an average analyst, mimicking the abovementioned tactics is hardly a winning stratagem. A test drive with your buddy mechanic or a property visit before the purchase is common sense.
Sunday, December 10, 2023
Understand Entropy if You Want Your Startup to Succeed
Entropy is one of the concepts in physics that can be difficult to grasp. I attribute this fuzziness primarily to the way it's conventionally explained. Defining it in dictionaries as a lack of order or predictability, essentially equating it to chaos, obfuscates its nature even more.
Monday, September 15, 2025
Update AWS Cognito Users in Bulk
AWS Cognito undoubtedly undergoes rolling changes. It's a very mature product, but some things are still not up to speed, so frustrated developers subscribe to long-trailing GitHub threads, hoping they'll be addressed soon. Consequently, some operations still require you to roll up your sleeves and un-dust your command line kung fu. Updating AWS Cognito users in bulk is one of them.
Sunday, June 29, 2025