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Tips for Founders and Data Professionals
Founders
(Coming Soon!) Dear Advisor: Why is it so hard to integrate with EHRs?
What are the most common pre-seed and seed-stage pitch deck mistakes? (December 2020)
Dear Advisor: My MVP demos are not converting (November 2020)
Product Market Fit Roadmap in 6 Parts (November 2020)
Resources for Extending your Runway (July 2020, updated monthly through April 2021)
Dear Advisor: I have a start-up idea, what should I do next? (September 2020 + March 2021)
Dear Advisor: What metrics should I be thinking about? (September 2020)
Dear Advisor: Should I pivot? (August 2020)
Dear Advisor: How do I avoid the biggest data/AI/ML mistakes others make? (June 2020, updated August + September 2020 + April 2021)
How to Deliver Business Impact with Data (January 2020, updated May June, and October 2020)
5 Aspects of your Business you Need to Track Today to make any Data-Driven Decisions (October 2019)
Data Professionals
(Coming Soon!) How do I get clean data?
How to Break into your First Data Role as a Non-Analytics Manager (February 2021)
ML model in production is doing worse than locally (January 2021, updated February 2021)
How to get your Resume to Stand out? (October 2020)
Companies still Hiring during COVID (May 2020, updated monthly through April 2021)
10 Questions to Ask Yourself When Considering a Continuing Education Program (April 2020, updated June + September 2020 + April 2021)
How to Run a Jupyter Notebook in a Virtual Environment (March 2020)
Four "R"s of Machine Learning Software Development (February 2020, updated December 2020)
Iterative Development of Machine Learning Models (January 2020, updated June 2020)
How to Deliver Business Impact with Data (January 2020, updated May June, and October 2020)
How to Break into your First Data Role: Tips to Tackling the Cold Start Problem (October 2019, updated May + September 2020)
Freelancers
What do I Need to Know to Start my own Business? (December 2019, updated June 2020)
Leadership
How to Break into your First Data Role as a Non-Analytics Manager (February 2021)
(Coming Soon!) Tips for onboarding new hires remotely
Project Management
Column: Your Business Has Lots of Ideas on What To Work On. Here’s How To Decide on What’s Next (April 2021)
How I "built, measured, and learned" that long-distance running is for me (March 2021)
How to “build, measure, learn” to see if your startup needs to pivot OR improve its product (March 2021)
Dear Advisor: Should I pivot? (Or what is "build, measure, learn"? (August 2020)
How to Prioritize when Everything is High Priority: the Data-Driven Approach (April 2020)
Product Market Fit Roadmap in 6 Parts (November 2020)
Please see Publications for links to peer-reviewed publications and pre-prints.