
PPF shift for Startups
There is this concept of production possibility frontier (PPF) in Economics. It is often visualized as a curve that represents the optimal allocation of resources between producing two different products - see PPF1 curve on the diagram above. Point A is one such possible optimal allocation achieved by, say, Company A. However, you will realize that this curve is not always a perfect representation of reality. In fact, most companies do not operate on the optimal curve (point B), and there are...

"You're either crazy, or you know what you're doing"
14 years ago I left one of the leading software outsourcing companies & amazing career to start my own company - Empatika. I doubt you know the name of the company, but probably (at least 7m users worldwide) you do know App in the Air, which I have co-founded with my colleagues from Empatika. I have recently left App in the Air after almost 12 years of building & growing the company from scratch. This was amazing and unforgettable experience & I think now is the right time to reflect on it. I...

Big thinking & hackathons
One of the traits of large companies is "big thinking". By this, I mean they plan on a grand scale, measuring their progress in months, quarters, and years. This can be a dangerous habit for a startup founder, since they should be thinking and acting on a daily, weekly basis. So how can one learn to unlearn this? Hackathons have been a great help to me. First we attended external ones, but eventually we started organizing internal ones. A hackathon is a 24-hour marathon of programming aimed a...
Product guy and systems thinker. Founder & exCEO of @appintheair

PPF shift for Startups
There is this concept of production possibility frontier (PPF) in Economics. It is often visualized as a curve that represents the optimal allocation of resources between producing two different products - see PPF1 curve on the diagram above. Point A is one such possible optimal allocation achieved by, say, Company A. However, you will realize that this curve is not always a perfect representation of reality. In fact, most companies do not operate on the optimal curve (point B), and there are...

"You're either crazy, or you know what you're doing"
14 years ago I left one of the leading software outsourcing companies & amazing career to start my own company - Empatika. I doubt you know the name of the company, but probably (at least 7m users worldwide) you do know App in the Air, which I have co-founded with my colleagues from Empatika. I have recently left App in the Air after almost 12 years of building & growing the company from scratch. This was amazing and unforgettable experience & I think now is the right time to reflect on it. I...

Big thinking & hackathons
One of the traits of large companies is "big thinking". By this, I mean they plan on a grand scale, measuring their progress in months, quarters, and years. This can be a dangerous habit for a startup founder, since they should be thinking and acting on a daily, weekly basis. So how can one learn to unlearn this? Hackathons have been a great help to me. First we attended external ones, but eventually we started organizing internal ones. A hackathon is a 24-hour marathon of programming aimed a...
Product guy and systems thinker. Founder & exCEO of @appintheair

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As a junior manager, one of the biggest challenges I faced was not focusing on what was important, but rather what was urgent. This often resulted in feelings of frustration, negativity towards others, and low self-esteem. So, I decided to find answers to the question, "what does it take to manage effectively?" and I found the best answers in Peter Drucker's 1967 book "The Effective Executive". The first piece of advice he offered was to "Know Thy Time". This is something I would highly recommend to any startup founder, especially since time is a crucial asset in disrupting the market.
To "Know Thy Time", follow these three simple steps:
Track it - you can't manage what you don't measure. Keeping a log of how you spend your time helps you understand how it relates to your goals and aspirations.
Systematically manage it to eliminate time-wasters and delegate tasks that can be done better by others. You'll be building resilience in your team and giving them opportunities to learn and grow.
Aggregate it into large chunks to allow for creative work. Jeff Bezos schedules important meetings for 10 am. We had a no-meeting day on Fridays at App in the Air to enable uninterrupted creative work sessions. Batching meetings into specific days frees up other days for focused work.
As a junior manager, one of the biggest challenges I faced was not focusing on what was important, but rather what was urgent. This often resulted in feelings of frustration, negativity towards others, and low self-esteem. So, I decided to find answers to the question, "what does it take to manage effectively?" and I found the best answers in Peter Drucker's 1967 book "The Effective Executive". The first piece of advice he offered was to "Know Thy Time". This is something I would highly recommend to any startup founder, especially since time is a crucial asset in disrupting the market.
To "Know Thy Time", follow these three simple steps:
Track it - you can't manage what you don't measure. Keeping a log of how you spend your time helps you understand how it relates to your goals and aspirations.
Systematically manage it to eliminate time-wasters and delegate tasks that can be done better by others. You'll be building resilience in your team and giving them opportunities to learn and grow.
Aggregate it into large chunks to allow for creative work. Jeff Bezos schedules important meetings for 10 am. We had a no-meeting day on Fridays at App in the Air to enable uninterrupted creative work sessions. Batching meetings into specific days frees up other days for focused work.
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