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We are Lent into Each Other's Keeping

Tom Tunguz

Esquire writer and master storyteller Cal Fussman describes the experience of interviewing his childhood hero, Muhammad Ali, in a podcast with Tim Ferriss. Fussman spends a week with Ali, during which he the Special Olympics and boxes with the great champion. But there’s one story that stood out to me. Fussman and Ali must catch a plane, but they are running late.

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We tried to recruit these 2 people for 5 years. It was worth every minute.

CloseSaaS

Show up. Follow up. Follow through. The Hustle Formula. If there’s any real “secret” to success, that’s it.

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What is CRM?

ITPro

In-depth. We look at the importance of customer relationship management tools for business.

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The Narrowing of SaaS Valuations

Tom Tunguz

The public markets have changed the way they value SaaS companies. The median forward revenue multiple for SaaS business reached its peak in February 2014, fell to its nadir two years later, and has since recovered, hovering at around five times forward revenue – where it has remained with little variance over the last six months. However, that’s not the whole story.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Startup Best Practices 23 - Leveraging The Illusion of Explanatory Depth in Interviews

Tom Tunguz

Draw an image of a bicycle that depicts how the bicycle works. You might draw something like this bike above. Or this one. Or this one. But as Gianluca Gimini discovered when he asked 50 people over the course of six years to draw a bicycle, most people cannot - despite their great confidence of the contrary. Gimini rendered these drawings (on the right) to highlight incorrect most people’s understanding of a bicycles anatomy truly is.