Conor Dewey

🌍 The Power of Capturing Knowledge in Meetings

If there was one thing you could improve on your team, what would it be? Most common answers to this question aren’t around ability or leadership. Instead, they tend to focus on a lack of alignment and information...

⛓ Getting Started with Value Chains

Value chains are the poster child of business strategy frameworks. I recently read quite a bit from Nathan Baschez and Ben Thompson on the subject. This post aims to get you from zero to one as quickly as possible...

🛌 One Perfect Mattress for Everyone: 6 Lessons from Casper’s Success

Casper Sleep has seemingly pressed all the right buttons over the course of its journey. Founded in 2014, the mattress startup has won over customers with its innovative model...

📚 10 Reads for Data Scientists Getting Started with Business Models

If you’re getting started with data science, you’re probably focusing your attention on mostly stats and coding. There’s nothing wrong with this, in fact, this is the right move ...

👊 Reasons Don’t Matter: A Lesson from Steve Jobs

You’ve heard the cliché. Employers don’t want excuses, they want facts, supporting data, and most importantly, results. They aren’t concerned with your story, just make sure you keep things moving up and to the right...

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