“I was advising early stage startups and the sort of medium I was using was Google Slides”
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MentionsThe ultimate guide to PR
“every year half a billion people create pre presentations in Google slides and PowerPoint”
“they add this to a slide and Google slide deck every couple of weeks”
“docs is Google Docs and slides as Google Slides”
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Choosing a Startup PR Agency
Vet PR agencies on month-one behavior, writing samples, and lead time — not on big-brand logos.
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New leader's first move: earn trust before inflicting the change you were hired to make.
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Competitive Wargaming
Assign each squad one competitor for a quarter, then pool the intel on a presentation day.
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Find-the-Nugget Angle Selection
Ignore the company's own messaging; find the single thread reporters care about and double down.
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Founder-Led Marketing as a Goodwill Bank
Log what you learn, package it per platform, bank goodwill to spend later
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Four Paths Into Product Management
Two formal and two informal routes into PM — the informal ones convert most often.
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Position your product as taking on a household-name incumbent, never as a new category.
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Lean Team by Design: Slow Hiring, Player-Coaches, Generalists
Hire painfully slowly, replicate your first-10 DNA, and bet big on the exceptional
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Layering sales onto PLG: hire growers for inbound and department-head buyers, not CIO hunters.
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Match each story type to the one publication most likely to cover it, before pitching anyone.
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Quality Is Growth: Making the ROI Case
Kill the 'business goals vs design goals' framing by collecting the quality wins that moved your own metrics.
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Reach for the Stars, Land on the Moon
Sketch the ideal end-state journey, then work backwards and ship it in measurable pieces.
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Reactive Pricing After Demand Signal
Let users pull pricing out of you, then validate willingness-to-pay and margins
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Hire for judgment, humility, and the courage to say 'not good enough' — tools and process you can teach.
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The Contrarian Coverage-Gap Angle
Give reporters the bold opposing view on a trending topic they're already covering positively.
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The Direct Funding Pitch
Pitch funding news by pattern-matching a beat reporter and stating the deal in three sentences.
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The Durable Wrapper Test
Own a workflow you care about for a decade, then orchestrate 20 models beneath it
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The First 30 Seconds Onboarding Bet
Earn the next 30 seconds by making one thing feel magical fast
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The Four Conditions for Operationalizing Quality
Group effort, vision + alignment, an editor, and the courage to say 'almost, but no'.
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The Jargon-Strip Clarity Test
Say what your product does out loud in plain answers; if the writing can't match, strip the jargon.
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The Levels of Quality Ladder
Rate every feature 1-5: works → error-free → usable → desirable → surprisingly great.
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The Lightweight-First Outreach Opener
Open cold with a one-line 'are you open to ideas?' instead of a full pitch, to earn a reply.
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Communication5 steps
The Low-Maintenance Work-in-Progress Deck
One shared slide deck of screenshots, updated monthly, that kills redundant work and spreads patterns.
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The Micro-Influencer Wide-Net Playbook
Skip the big creators; onboard thousands of trusted micro-influencers like teammates
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The OPPA — Leaderless Peer Review of Problems and Opportunities
A recurring PM-only forum to spar on problems and opportunities — with the CPO deliberately absent.
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The Same-Day Prototype Validation Loop
Idea in the morning, real users testing by afternoon, decision by evening
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The Three-Phase OKR Maturity Ladder
No OKRs, then siloed team OKRs, then company OKRs with cross-org dependency mapping.
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The Word-of-Mouth Machine PMF Test
Real product-market fit is organic pull, not award-winning launch spikes
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Three-Horizon Resource Allocation Shift
Express multi-year strategy as a yearly percentage split of resources across three horizons.
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Walk the Store: The Essential Journeys Quality Program
Name your 15 critical user journeys, give each a cross-functional owner, and score them on a fixed cadence.
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Where-to-Play Product Strategy as the Prioritization Engine
Turn an integrated set of strategic choices into the filter that decides every roadmap trade-off.
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